Stories in the News

BREAKING NEWS STORIES

Finding Family: Billings sister connect after 50 years apart 1-16-2012

International Adoption or Child Trafficing 1-6-2012

Scranton Woman Turns Adoption Story into Blog 1-8-2012

Searches Stitch Together Long Lost Family Ties 1-5-2012

Sister's Reunite after 45 Years 1-9-2012

Woman Reunites with Daughter after 45 Years 1-8-2012

Native American Roots Trump in Adoption Battle over toddler 1-8-2012

Not Just a 'Bio-Mom,' But A Mentor (Repeat show on NPR from May 8 2009)

BC-US-Mother-Daughter Reuinon, 102 - 01-02-2012

Adopted woman 64 who thought she was only child discovers NINE siblings - 12-30-2011

Failed Adoptions, Create more homeless youths - 12-29-2011

Father and Son Meet for First Time - 12-29-2011

 After a 1929 Rape, a Reunion of Mother and Daughter 12-19-2011

Mother, Daughter Reunite for Christmas - 12-19-2011

Illegal Cross-Border Adoption Traps Two Mothers 12-18-2011

Illinois busy complying with new adoption law 12/15/2011

Thousands of adoptees - like State Rep - finally get birth certificates 12/16/2011

Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute Releases New Report - 10/23/2011

New Openness for Donor Kids about their biology - Part Two (NPR Radio) 9-18-2011

New Openness for Donor Kids about their biology - Part One (NPR Radio) 9-17-2011

 Movies In the News

From Place to Place - follows the lives of six young adults who recently aged out of Montana’s foster care system.

Eggsploitation - Eggsploitation renders the medical risks of paid egg donation with care and truth in every detail and makes a thoroughly devastating case against the commodification of women and their eggs.

I'm Glad My Mother's Alive - Given up for adoption as a toddler, troubled teenager Thomas becomes obsessed with tracking down his birth mother. After years of searching Thomas finds her single, with a small child, living in a nearby suburb. 

Out Of The Fog: Mothers Speak About Adoption
 

Older Stories kept for Information

 
Donaldson Institute releases report supporting the adoptee's right to the Original Birth Certificate — FOR THE RECORDS: RESTORING A RIGHT TO ADULT ADOPTEES, released this month for National Adoption Awareness Month, represents the most comprehensive examination to date of one of the most controversial, emotional issues in the modern adoption world: whether adopted people, once they become adults, should have access to their original birth information. This report suggests that all states change their laws so that the answer is "yes". To read the report, please visit: www.adoptioninstitute.org

The Guttmacher report on abortion statistics lists Delaware as one of the top five states in the country in per-capita abortion rates. While that statistic may be accurate, the Delaware paper, The News Journal, reported on January 22, 2008 that the per-capita abortion rate in Delaware dropped from 31.3 per 1,000 women in 2000 to 28.8 in 2005. Delaware’s law allowing adoptee access to the original birth certificate took effect in January 1999.

Carolyn Hoard, AAC Representative-Delaware