Adoption

I Like to Watch Tears for fears

Why does CW's "Vampire Diaries" leave us cold, while WE's "Adoption Diaries" has us crying our little eyes out?
  • Single and knocked up

    Self magazine sets out to dispel myths about accidental pregnancy but ends up reinforcing some very old stereotypes.
  • My niece was adopted 35 years ago -- and never told!

    I feel that she should know the truth -- but should I tell her?
  • Little girl lost, little girl found

    I never thought I'd be able to enjoy Mother's Day again. Then, life brought me Annabelle.
  • The baby I turned away

    I was desperate to adopt a girl from India -- until I discovered she might have developmental problems. Will I ever stop thinking about the child I rejected?
  • Slipped through the cracks

    Stories we didn't get to cover: Women more concerned about the economy than men, sex for food, and why are males the gender most likely to adopt?
  • Why wouldn't a 16-year-old boy want to live on a houseboat?

    See, there's this maverick single dad with three adopted kids, and he buys this old houseboat and starts restoring it ...
  • Adoption and abortion: Apples and blue

    Increasing the former does not decrease the latter, contrary to "middle ground" belief.
  • Ellen, the dog bullies and me

    I know how Ellen DeGeneres feels: My adventures with private dog shelters convinced me that years of rescuing animals sometimes turns people into self-righteous tyrants.
  • Big momma's house

    Should obesity prevent prospective parents from adopting?
  • My husband has Chinese ancestry but his son wants to keep it secret

    My stepson's daughter, you see, is not biologically related to my husband and, well, it's complicated ...
  • An adoptee, exposed

    Years after reuniting with my own birth mother, reading A.M. Homes' new memoir of adoption was like finding the journal I never kept.
  • Lesbian fights gay adoption

    Gay rights advances threatened by nasty custody battle.
  • "The Jolie Doctrine"

    Coming soon to a third world country near you.
  • Should I become an egg donor -- to pay off my loans?

    I'm troubled by the ethical implications of taking money for my ova.
  • No adoption for you

    New Chinese regulations block overweight, disabled and frequently divorced prospective parents from adopting.
  • The Madonna adoption circus

    Human rights organizations will help decide whether the Material Girl can adopt a Malawian boy.
  • A mother's love

    My adopted son, already the father of three, faces a future of dead-end jobs and near poverty. What do I owe him and my unexpected, fragile grandchildren?
  • Don't justify my love

    Madonna will soon find out it's tough enough to be an adoptive parent without being accused of "baby buying."
  • A motherless child ...

    Let's just dive right into the Madonna Malawian adoption scandal, shall we?
  • What else we're reading

    Madonna in Malawi, the war on children, cat poop affects babies' sex and more!
  • What is La Leche League smoking?

    The breast-feeding advocates have allied themselves with a virulently antigay writer.
  • The whole world in her home

    Journalist Melissa Fay Greene talks about the enormity of the African AIDS crisis and why, as the mother of five, she decided to adopt four Ethiopian orphans.
  • The children they gave away

    In the decades between World War II and Roe v. Wade, 1.5 million young women were secretly sent to homes for unwed mothers and coerced into giving their babies up for adoption. Now their stories are finally being told.
  • Feel-good gay parenting story of the day

    Jesse, and his two mommies, are embraced by a Boston-area Catholic school.
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