The amount you pay to adopt a child can vary significantly, depending on the route you take for adoption, where you live and ...

Editor’s Note: This article was produced as a project for the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism’s 2025 Child Welfare Impact Reporting Fund. Initial reporting was supported by a grant from the ...

Pregnancy and women’s reproductive choices have long been hot button issues in the political arena, even more so in the years since Roe v. Wade was overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court in 2022. Sign ...

Despite laws against it, many leading adoption agencies and consultants are still using race as a barrier for allowing interracial adoptsion. Vorda Berge - stock.adobe.com “I know you really want to ...

Waylon Schmitt poses for a photo with his family on Jan. 3 at the Boone County Courthouse. From left are his adoptive grandfather, adoptive parents Christopher and Abrielle Schmitt and adoptive ...