Adoption

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  • Damaged goods

    The parents of a murderer sue adoption workers, claiming they should have been told about the boy's mentally ill birth mother.
    By Beth Broeker February 24, 2000

  • Torn to pieces

    Brothers and sisters in foster care, rarely adopted together, are routinely split and scattered, never to see each other again.
    By Nell Bernstein February 16, 2000

  • Letters to the editor

    The mixed blessing of adoption; Plus: Readers shocked to find themselves agreeing with David Horowitz; Christopher Buckley "sincerely disgusted."
    Letters to the editor February 9, 2000

  • The unbearable lightness of Schwarzenegger

    Film critics struggle to review "The End of Days" and still retain their indie cred. Plus: The AIDS crisis in Africa and one writer's desperate attempt to get a job at Maxim.
    By Jenn Shreve December 6, 1999

  • Taking a chance on love

    Suddenly, we would be allowed to adopt a baby -- if we could accept the very real possibility that, one day, he would be mentally ill.
    By Jane Smith December 1, 1999

  • From "Hey Faggot" to "Hey Daddy"

    Savage Dan Savage softens up in fatherhood: Now he's a bitch with a burp rag.
    By Daryl Lindsey October 1, 1999

  • All you need is love -- and a marriage license

    If Jesse Helms has his way, new legislation could limit international adoptions for everyone but married straight couples.
    By Joan Oleck July 9, 1999

  • The invisible parent

    While many courts won't recognize the rights of non-biological gay parents, one woman refused to let go of her child.
    By Lu Vickers May 25, 1999

  • The city of lost children

    Is a brazilian judge stealing babies for American Families?
    By Katherine Ellison January 30, 1999

  • One mother's gain

    The third in a trilogy of stories by three women whose lives were changed forever by adoption.
    By Maurine Zarlengo Christ January 6, 1999

  • My mother's daughter

    Part Two of a trilogy by three women whose lives were forever changed by adoption -- the teenager who gave her child up, the girl she gave away and the woman who became that girl's mother.
    By Kristina Zarlengo January 5, 1999

  • The baby girl I gave away

    Putting up a baby for adoption was the first act of my adult life, but it took me almost 30 years to face what that decision meant for me and my daughter.
    By Ceil Malek January 4, 1999

  • Mommie Dearest in drag

    Why would Joan Crawford's daughter embrace the gay cult that thinks her child abuse, detailed in her memoir 'Mommie Dearest,' is one big campy joke?
    By Paul Festa July 1, 1998

  • Someone to watch over me

    For one little boy whose babyhood was almost lost in a crowded Russian orphanage, it's not the educational toys and developmental stimuli that matter most.
    By Janis Cooke Newman June 9, 1998

  • the price of eggs in america

    The growing controversy over egg donorship poses the tricky question: Which comes first, the donor or the egg?
    By Cynthia Joyce March 5, 1998

  • interracial adoption: One couple's story, part 2

    Those who say love is colorblind never considered adopting a baby of a different race.
    By Carol Lloyd and Hank Pellissier August 5, 1997

  • Interracial adoption: One couple's story

    Those who say love is colorblind never considered adopting a baby of a different race.
    By Carol Lloyd and Hank Pellissier August 4, 1997
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