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Janie Bush (left) and daughter Tracey Bush at their StoryCorps interview in Dallas on Dec. 8, 2014.

National

Mother-Daughter Duo Reunited Against The Odds: 'I Believed That You Were Dead'

5:02am November 08, 2019

At age 19, Janie Bush gave birth to a daughter with a life-threatening condition and gave her up for adoption. After 12 years, Janie reconnected with Tracey Bush, who has since made a full recovery.

Maricopa County, Ariz., Assessor Paul Petersen is accused of smuggling pregnant women from the Marshall Islands and paying them to give birth in the United States. In Arizona, Petersen has been indicted on theft, fraud and forgery charges for allegedly cl

National

Arizona Official Arrested In Alleged 'Baby Mill' Adoption Fraud Scheme

6:18pm October 09, 2019

by Bobby Allyn

Maricopa County Assessor Paul Petersen has been arrested for allegedly transporting dozens of women from the Marshall Islands to give birth for adoptions. Authorities accuse him of human smuggling.

Empty baby beds stand in the maternity ward of a hospital (a spokesperson for the hospital asked that the hospital not be named). Six days after Farai Chideya took her adopted newborn child home from a hospital, she was forced to give him back to his birt

Health & Safety

'I Was Utterly Gutted': Farai Chideya Endures 3 Failed Adoptions

1:33pm July 14, 2019

by Lulu Garcia-Navarro

The journalist, author and former NPR host speaks out about her painful quest for motherhood: "There's a lot of emotional blood on the floor."

Jane Kemp and her son, Kieran, celebrate their first Hanukkah together.

I'm Converting: One Mother's Unexpected Path To Judaism

8:41am April 27, 2019

by Sophia Alvarez Boyd

Jane Kemp grew up in a non-denominational Protestant church, but when she learned her adopted son had Jewish ancestry, it set her on a path to conversion she never could have imagined.

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel, pictured earlier this month, has settled a lawsuit by same-sex couples who argued their rights were violated by faith-based adoption agencies that don't want to work with gays and lesbians.

National

State-Funded Adoption Agencies In Michigan Barred From Refusing LGBTQ Parents

9:39pm March 22, 2019

by Vanessa Romo

Attorney General Dana Nessel reached a settlement with the ACLU. It requires agencies not to discriminate against gay people who want to adopt or foster children referred by the state.

'All You Can Ever Know' Offers A Personal Account Of Transracial Adoption

4:52pm October 04, 2018

by Mariya Karimjee

Nicole Chung's memoir is never myopic and, ultimately, it's universal: a story about families, learning to grapple with our own identities, and figuring out where we belong.

A reproduction of a poster urging inhabitants, especially mothers and their children, to leave Madrid as Gen. Francisco Franco's troops advanced during the Spanish Civil War. The poster reads "Mothers, protect your children!" and "Evacuate Madrid." In sma

World News

How Spanish Women Were Allegedly Targeted In 'Stolen Babies' Cases For Decades

8:46pm August 17, 2018

by Lucia Benavides

A secret adoption network started in Spain in the 1930s as a fascist tactic to purge "communist tendencies" from women who defended the republic, say prosecutors and academics.

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The Children's Village has several grassy areas where kids can play soccer and other sports.

An Orphanage That Doesn't Seem Like An Orphanage

11:51am August 09, 2018

by Jason Beaubien

If you were to build a franchise-type structure for raising orphans, what would it look like?

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Nuns of the Missionaries of Charity, the order founded by Mother Teresa, walk in annual Corpus Christi procession organized on the Feast of Christ the King in Kolkata, India, in 2016.

Late Mother Teresa's Order Investigated For Child Trafficking In India

2:56pm July 17, 2018

by Scott Neuman

A nun and a worker at a Missionaries of Charity shelter were arrested last week for allegedly selling four infants. India has mandated the investigation of all such facilities run by the order.

There aren't hard numbers on who is searching and how many, but many adoption agencies in the U.S. confirm that they've seen an uptick in international adoptees searching for their biological parents over the last decade or so.

I Found My Birth Mother. It Didn't Rock My Life — And That's OK

4:14pm June 26, 2018

by Ashley Westerman

A common mantra in the international adoption community in the U.S. is that everyone has their own adoption story. I assume everyone has a unique reunion with their biological parent, too.

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