32-year-old man adopted by former foster mother
NBC San Diego - Nearly 20 years after being ripped apart from his foster parents, a 32-year-old man was officially adopted Friday in San Diego by the woman he has always considered to be his mother.
Uplifting African-American foster youth
OPINION - Each year during Black History Month we reflect on the contributions African-Americans are making to our great country. It’s become customary this month be used to galvanize African-Americans around the issues disproportionately impacting our community...
Is the modern-day adoption process colorblind?
theGRIO REPORT - Factors like race, religious affiliation and family history only serve to complicate the already cumbersome process of finding a forever family...
Bronx foster child prospers in new two-fer degree program
"It's a lot of work -- you have to go to school year-round -- so it was a lot of balancing, and a lot of people couldn't handle it," said McNair, 17...
Reforms help states cut foster-care populations
NEW YORK (AP) - Thanks to sizable reductions in several other states, it's a coast-to-coast phenomenon -- the latest federal data, from 2008, recorded 463,000 children in foster care nationally...
Georgia couple provides family for over 80 foster kids
VIDEO - Fighting the shortage of foster parents, one Georgia couple has been opening their hearts and their home to foster children for nearly 40 years...
Couples are encouraged to adopt minority kids
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - State and nonprofit agencies are encouraging minority families to consider adoption, as more black and mixed race children are in need...
White family with black foster child targeted in Pa. cross burning
VIDEO - A white western Pennsylvania family that took in a black teenage foster child said they were targeted by a wooden cross burned outside their home...
Teen and newborn daughter killed
A newborn delivered after her teenage mother was fatally shot at a school bus stop in North Carolina has died...
