adoption

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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Ariana Ude and her mom, Kelli Ude have an honest relationship and that includes how they became family. They came to the StoryCorps mobile booth to…

A federal judge has ruled the 1978 Indian Child Welfare Act unconstitutional because it gives Native American families preferential treatment in adoptions of American Indian children.

The StoryCorps mobile booth was in Oklahoma City in early 2018, and we're bringing you some of the stories that were recorded here. Locally recorded…