Adoption lets you take lifelong social, emotional, and legal responsibility for a child. It establishes a lawfully recognized, permanent relationship between you and the adopted child. For the birth ...

State Sen. Cindy F. Friedman, D-Arlington, joined her colleagues in the Massachusetts State Senate to unanimously pass legislation to make state identification more accessible to people experiencing ...

Twenty-three years ago, former President Bill Clinton signed the Intercountry Adoption Act of 2000, following the Senate's ratification of the international treaty on adoption, the Hague Convention on ...

Adoption Choice said the majority of adoption papers allow contact with the birth mother. A Franklin couple is sharing their experience with adopting not one, but two children. Officials with Adoption ...

VANCOUVER, Wash. — Earlier this month, Sheryl Herd officially adopted 2-year-old Karter, a milestone celebrated with balloons, cake and Karter dabbing tears from his mom’s eyes. It was the anniversary ...

BOOTHWYN — “I tell people that I was an only child until age 74,” smiles Ed Grunwell of Boothwyn, as he takes a chair beside his wife, Doreen, at their kitchen table last week to sit down and tell his ...

RICHMOND, VA — The Court of Appeals of Virginia has interpreted Virginia’s close relative adoption statute to not require a petitioner to maintain continuous physical custody of the child during the ...