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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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Sweet 'newborn' shoot for adopted teen
It looks like any other newborn shoot, but the subject isn’t a baby – he’s a 13 year old boy. And there's even more to it than that.
Adopting your child's culture
Adopting children from other countries comes with its own joys and challenges, and getting to know the culture of your child's native country is part of life for many adoptive families.
Adopting from overseas should be last resort, adviser says
Instead of making it easier for Australians to adopt overseas, more should be done to prevent international adoption, a federal government adviser says.
'I kept asking for my baby and they kept telling me 'no'
Christine Cole was 16 when, heavily drugged and in agonising pain, her daughter was pulled from her body in a labour ward in Crown Street Women's Hospital.
Scared of adoption
How important is biology? Does it really make a difference to the way that you bond with your baby?
Adoption program 'a drop in the ocean'
Australia's largest international adoption program has been re-opened but it is not enough to change our ''anti-adoption culture'', says actor Deborra-Lee Furness.
Australian adoptions hit a low
Adoption in Australia is at an all-time low as changed social attitudes ease the pressure on women to give up babies, and sex-education and birth control take effect.
Adopting Palesa
When Sian headed off to volunteer in an African centre for abandoned and HIV/AIDS affected children, she never dreamed she would end up adopting a child herself.
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Adoption: a different kind of love
Do parents feel the same affection for a child they have adopted as a birth child?
Adoption made easier
Women will no longer have to stop their involvement in fertility programs - or lie about it - before they can apply to adopt children under changes to the Adoption Act tabled in Parliament yesterday.
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