Adoptive Parents

Should I become an egg donor -- to pay off my loans?
I'm troubled by the ethical implications of taking money for my ova.
Damaged goods
The parents of a murderer sue adoption workers, claiming they should have been told about the boy's mentally ill birth mother.
Torn to pieces
Brothers and sisters in foster care, rarely adopted together, are routinely split and scattered, never to see each other again.
One mother's gain
The third in a trilogy of stories by three women whose lives were changed forever by adoption.
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.
interracial adoption: One couple's story, part 2
Those who say love is colorblind never considered adopting a baby of a different race.
Interracial adoption: One couple's story
Those who say love is colorblind never considered adopting a baby of a different race.

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