Adoption

Arts & Life

'Wolf Play' explores an adoption narrative many experience in real life

In ACT Theater's Wolf Play, the audience watches as a Korean child is adopted, and then re-homed to another family. We watch as he experiences pain and confusion, and the grapples with the realities of adoption. That's not an experience that's unique to the theater.

Law & Courts

'This was a positive way for Evangelicals to rebrand themselves' — the troubles of Matt Shea, Ukraine and international adoptions

Last month, former Washington state representative Matt Shea flew to Ukraine. There, he helped transport 63 children originally from Mariupol to Kazimierz Dolny, a small town in Poland. He says he was trying to bring those kids back to America to be adopted. Others say this move is representative of a larger issue in the adoption industry.

A young Irish mom's painful decision

I was 16 and going to school; I lived in Dublin and was infatuated with this older fellow who was a jack-the-lad kind of fella.

'Two whites don’t make a Wong': Feeling like an outsider as an interracial adoptee

I've always known I was adopted because I have white parents. In school, people talked about what traits they got from each of their parents: their eyes...