Across the country, an unregulated system is severing parents from children, who often end up abandoned by the agencies that are supposed to protect them.

Child custody, colonization, and the choices mother make

The story of the family who couldn’t stop adopting.

What happens when an adoption fails?

Gwen Wright was raised in dozens of foster homes. A new housing experiment could spare her son the same fate.

The lives of Sue and Hector Badeau, who felt a calling to raise children and adopted twenty of them.

An attempt to destigmatize failed adoptions.

A former prostitute and pregnant at 14, Lillie was a foster child looking for a home. A nurse and already a mother of 5, Amy wanted to help. Then Lillie and her newborn moved in.