adoption

An investigation by the website Civil Beat in Honolulu identified communications between Jody Hall and a prospective adoptive mother that appear to show her brokering black-market adoptions from the Marshall Islands. Reporter John Hill spoke with KERA's Bekah Morr about that investigation.

Jody Hall, 68, was arrested for sale or purchase of a child, a third degree felony. Law enforcement officials say she was recruiting women in Tarrant County custody and purchasing their babies for adoption.

Dallas Animal Services opens Doggy Daycation program to the public as they continue to face overcapacity.

"We Were Once a Family," Roxanna Asgarian's expose of Texas' adoption system, won the National Book Critics Circle Award for best work of non-fiction.

There’s been a slow but steady movement across the U.S. to unseal records for adoptees, but bipartisan efforts have repeatedly stalled in Texas – and one state senator has consistently stood in the way.

Despite a child sexual assault investigation, a San Antonio foster executive kept his job at Texas Foster Care & Adoption Services.

Shelters are seeing a rise in people surrendering pets due to eviction or not being able to afford veterinary bills.

One North Texan created an Instagram account to detail her personal adoption experience and encourage other adoptees to join her mission to create awareness around adoption trauma.

A federal appeals court announced Thursday that it will take a second look at an emotionally fraught lawsuit governing the adoption of Native American…

From Texas Standard: In 1978, Congress passed the Indian Child Welfare Act. Before the law, a vast majority of Native American children in foster care...

Faith-based adoption agencies in Texas would be able to reject prospective parents on religious grounds under a bill the state House preliminarily…

From Texas Standard: Most adoptions are about children finding their "forever homes," or their permanent families. Other adoption proceedings are for...