Nov 27 Watch 5:13 Finding family: a reporter shares her personal story of adoption and reunion By Kaomi Lee, Twin Cities PBS Kaomi Lee is one of the many Koreans who was adopted as a child, brought to a new country and raised by parents of a different race. She still doesn’t know her biological parents, but her decision to share her… Continue watching
Sep 04 It’s a girl, and a boy: Buttigieg celebrates 2 babies By Associated Press Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and his husband, Chasten, are celebrating the arrival of not one — but two — bundles of joy. The first openly gay person to be confirmed by the Senate for a Cabinet position had shared last month… Continue reading
Nov 01 Trump rule would let faith-based groups exclude LGBTQ parents By Kevin Freking, Associated Press The Trump administration is proposing a rule that would allow faith-based foster care and adoption agencies to continue getting taxpayer funding even if they exclude LGBT families and others from their services based on religious beliefs. Continue reading
Oct 24 Watch 8:42 Why Cambodian orphanages house so many children whose parents are still alive By Fred de Sam Lazaro, Sarah Clune Hartman The concept of orphanages has long been considered outdated in developed countries. In the developing world, however, these institutions still house hundreds of thousands of children. But the surprising reality is that the parents of most of these children are… Continue watching
Dec 25 Watch 2:41 Author Alice Stephens on reframing adoption stories Alice Stephens is a fiction writer. She is also an adoptee, born to a Korean mother but raised by a white American family. Stephens shares her humble opinion on “parent narratives” and how she learned to become the subject of… Continue watching
May 17 Connecticut recruiting LGBT families to adopt, foster kids By Susan Haigh, Associated Press Connecticut's child welfare agency has launched an initiative to actively recruit LGBT people to become foster and adoptive parents. Continue reading
May 12 Oklahoma governor signs adoption law opposed by LGBT groups By Sean Murphy, Associated Press The bill provides legal protections to faith-based agencies that won't place children in LGBT homes. Continue reading
May 10 Texas House OKs bill letting adoption groups deny non-Christians By Meredith Hoffman, Associated Press The bill would be the nation's second allowing state-funded adoption agencies to reject families on religious grounds. Continue reading
May 06 Under Texas bill, adoption agencies could reject Jews, gays, Muslims By Meredith Hoffman, Associated Press Parents seeking to adopt children in Texas could soon be rejected by agencies with religious objections to them being Jewish, Muslim, gay, single, or interfaith couples. Continue reading
Sep 08 Watch 5:13 Scotland’s national poet writes for those who’ve been asked ‘where are you from?’ By PBS News Hour Jackie Kay is Scotland's first black national poet. Adopted as a child, much of her poetry and prose speaks to her own experience of not feeling entirely welcome in her own country. “I wrote the poems that I wanted to… Continue watching