Adoption

Rick Barth reflects on the lessons for foster care and adoptions within Roxanna Asgarian's new book, "We Were Once a Family"

Media accounts of particularly violent and heinous crimes, such as school shootings and sniper attacks, often focus on the motivation of the perpetrators. So it was on March 26, 2018, when white adoptive parents Jennifer and Sarah Hart, with Jennifer at the wheel, drove an SUV carrying their six Black and bi-racial children off a cliff on the Pacific Coast Highway, plunging all 8 to their deaths in the rocks and ocean below.

It's time to reverse course on the Adoption and Safe Families Act (ASFA), the dangerous bipartisan legislation that recently turned 25.

South Korea’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission is launching an investigation into dozens of cases involving children who may have been wrongfully removed from their families.

Pregnant women struggling with drug addiction need early and effective paths to sobriety, writes Darcy Olsen.

Three years after I moved in, my adoptive parents got divorced. My brain pinpointed me as the problem, writes George Romero.

On this week’s episode, we discuss the federal about-face on child support payment policies for youth in foster care; how the workforce crisis is impacting Texas juvenile justice; and the latest on localizing juvenile justice in California. 

On this week’s podcast we discuss the recent series and data reporting by USA Today on youth who experience adoption from foster care and return to the system, the recent federal investigation on America’s use of Indian boarding schools; and news on lawsuits in Alaska and Indiana.