for single women to adopt children. That adoption records were not routinely sealed until after World War II. That before the war, most mothers who relinquished their children were married, and the ...

Mothers' childhood experiences of trauma can predict their children's behavior problems, even when the mothers did not raise their children, who were placed for adoption as newborns, a new University ...

The past year has not been good for the image of adoption. In the wake of the Dobbs decision rolling back abortion rights last June, the media has been filled with reports describing how adoption is ...

Between 1971 and 2001, U.S. citizens adopted 265,677 children from other countries. In the following single decade, U.S. families nearly matched that total with an additional 224,615 international ...