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YouTubers Myka and James Stauffer shared every step of their parenting journey. Except the last.

The story of the family who couldn’t stop adopting.

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The legacy of the Guatemelan adoption industry.

What happens when an adoption fails?

Forty-seven years later, two daughters meet.

The Syrian refugee said his name was Paul, and that he was 16 years old. The truth was much more complicated.

A brutal custody battle raises questions about who has a right to rear a child and what the legal meaning of a family should be.

The lives of Sue and Hector Badeau, who felt a calling to raise children and adopted twenty of them.

Thousands of Korean children were sent abroad beginning in the 1950s. Now, many of them are returning to their country of origin.

An attempt to destigmatize failed adoptions.

Thirty-one years ago, Joy Hunley’s daughter was adopted. At least that’s what the paperwork says.

In the late 90s, an American man adopted a 5-year-old from the Ukraine. A decade later, one of the two would be accused of molesting young boys. The other would be charged with murder.

Norma Claypool earned notoriety for welcoming 15 “hard-to-adopt” children into her Baltimore home. Norma Claypool is also elderly and blind.

In 2008, a 38-year old Oklahoma nurse whom I'll call Kelly adopted an eight-year old girl, "Mary," from Ethiopia. It was the second adoption for Kelly, following one from Guatemala. She'd sought out a child from Ethiopia in the hopes of avoiding some of the ethical problems of adopting from Guatemala: widespread stories of birthmothers coerced to give up their babies and even payments and abductions at the hands of brokers procuring adoptees for unwitting U.S. parents. Now, even after using a reputable agency in Ethiopia, Kelly has come to believe that Mary never should have been placed for adoption.