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Why quick and easy adoptions aren't always best
Imagine for one moment your child went missing. Surely you would expect no stone to be left unturned to find them - even if took six months, a year, two, even more.
Adoptive mums and dads can get new parent depression too
Adopting a child is supposed to be a joyous event, but for some mothers it is far from a Hallmark moment.
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'I want my children back': Mum's desperate plea
If Anne can't find a lawyer, she fears her children will be adopted out without her voice being heard.
My friend fed my daughter when she couldn't feed hers
When everything is broken and mixed up we have to create our own beauty from the pieces.
Birth mum and daughter reunite after more than 80 years
For more than 80 years, Eileen Wagner kept a secret from her children.
Heartwarming photos show the joy of adoption after foster care
Children living in foster care can feel like their future is less than clear. But that uncertainty disappears the day they are adopted by their "forever family"
Would you walk past these children or stop to help?
A child advocacy group set out to see if strangers would stop to help a child in need. Their findings were alarming.
'It took forever but it was worth it'
It took six years for the Maxwells to adopt Leevii. And with only 87 children adopted in NSW last year, the state government is working on fixing the process.
The family giving sick babies a loving home for their last days
Cori and Mark Salchert are determined to give their foster children all the care and cuddles they deserve.
For some children, adoption is the best option
Australia hasn’t a lot to be proud of when it comes to children in care. The impact of past child welfare policies, specifically the Stolen Generations of Aboriginal children, the Forgotten Australians who grew up in institutional care, and the injustice of forced adoption must always be remembered. It is a shameful history.
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Woman launches desperate campaign to find adopted son's parents
A desperate search for a boy's biological parents has taken a family from Seattle to Shanghai, an almost 20,000km round trip.
Family launches Facebook search for triplet sons
In 1972 Cynthia Bush was 16, pregnant with triplets, and alone.
Lesbian couple told to hand back toddler
A baby girl relinquished by her mother at birth into the care of a lesbian couple will be "transitioned" back to her biological family after the mother later "changed her mind".
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