Plenty of hopeful parents take the initiative to find an adoption opportunity on your own. If you are considering advertising your own adoption, there’s a lot you need to know, including what is legal and what is not.

DNA tracking website are making search-and-reunion much more common. Sometimes, these reunions come as a surprise when the father was never told about the child. If you’re a dad, how are you supposed to handle that?

The way we speak matters, especially around sensitive subjects. What’s more sensitive than adoption? Here are two sides in an ongoing debate about the way we use the word “adopt.”

Before you file your taxes this year, learn more about the federal Adoption Tax Credit — and how you can use it to offset some of the adoption-related expenses you had in building your family.

World Orphan Week is held every year in the second week of February. In honor of this week, we’d like to take a moment to raise awareness for the needs of orphans around the world.

It’s a situation no birth parent wants to experience. However, it is possible, which is why birth parents must be prepared for how to react in this situation.

If you’ve just become a grandparent through adoption, or you’re anxiously waiting to become one, check out these tips for bonding with the newest member of your family.

As the world learns more each day about the novel coronavirus spreading from Wuhan, China, the impacts of the virus on all aspects of life are beginning to crystalize. Airlines are shutting down flights, factories are shifting work to alternate locations and some trade has screeched to a halt. Adoption has not escaped the effects of this global health concern.

Are you getting a lot of uncomfortable questions from friends and family about your decision to adopt? You’re not alone. Here are a few responses to some of the most common (and most frustrating) questions.

Picking a country to adopt from can be one of the biggest decisions in your journey. Here are the most popular countries to adopt a baby from in 2020.