When Christa Trinler and Wayne Walrath decided in 2016 to adopt a child, the upstate New York couple braced themselves for potential hurdles, including an average wait of up to two years and costs ...

Families pursuing adoption often turn to brokers. A USA TODAY Network investigation examines costs, risks and rules in ...

Though the process can be tedious and time-consuming, adoption is a great option for all involved parties. Adoptive families and the birth parents who cannot care for their babies are both giving them ...

“Adoption cannot cure infertility, but it can cure childlessness,” writes Randall B. Hicks in his book “Adopting In America: How To Adopt In One Year.” The adoption attorney from southern California ...

Foster care and adoption policy should put the best interests of children first. In any given year, hundreds of thousands of children spend time in the U.S. foster care system, a quarter of them ...