Everything shifted after Raeyn Bailey Perri’s birth — at least it did in the lives of the adults who love her. Richard Perri knew his life would change the moment he saw Nicole Bailey, his wife, in ...

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Lisa A. Tucker is an associate professor of law at the Drexel University Thomas R. Kline School of Law. She writes about the underdogs in family law. (Courtesy photo) In the weeks after Dobbs, the ...

This study reports the first large-scale public opinion survey (N = 646) on adoption. It describes the public's attitudes and opinions concerning adoption, open adoption, and the desire or need of ...

My husband and I adopted four children over the span of seven years. All of them are open adoptions. These arrangements allow for varying degrees of contact between adoptive and birth families. In our ...

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If the birth mother is in our lives, my child will be confused as to who their "real" parents are. The adoptive parent takes on the role of mom or dad from the very beginning. Because the birth mother ...