adoption

The decision has sent shockwaves through the adoption community and angered families still in the process of adopting children from China. We interviewed adoptees in the U.S. to hear their reaction.

Families from the U.S. and around the world had been waiting years to meet the boy or girl they were set to adopt from China. This week, they learned that China is no longer allowing international adoptions.

Taiwan legalized gay marriage in 2019, becoming the only place in Asia that allows it. But until now, those married couples could only adopt children related to one of the partners.

The 44-year-old law is held up as the "gold standard" of adoption law, but in recent years, critics like the conservative Goldwater Institute have accused the law of discriminating against non-Native couples who want to adopt Indian children.

The latest season of the award-winning podcast This Land by Cherokee Journalist Rebecca Nagle explores the efforts to dismantle the Indian Child Welfare Act. The law was passed in 1978 to protect Indigenous children from being separated from their families and communities. Some people don't see it that way.

The decision marks a triumph for a new brand of conservatism on the court, which is putting the Constitution's guarantee to the free exercise of religion at the highest level of protection.

Americans overseas trying to complete international adoptions have urged the government to expedite their children's visas so they can return as a family.

The agency argued its religious freedoms were violated when Philadelphia ended a foster care contract. A federal appeals court disagreed.

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.

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