An Australian ABC News feature examines the growing number of people discovering through DNA tests that they are adopted or donor conceived, and the support resources available to help navigate the identity and family questions that follow. buff.ly/eAepekm 🥚

A New Jersey adoptee recounts enduring the challenges of being raised as a transracial adoptee, the disappointment of learning her biological mother may have used a false name, and the emotional search to uncover her Vietnamese origins and reconnect with her biological family. buff.ly/u15iIsI 🥚

Jamie Varley has been charged with murdering his adopted son and faces allegations connected to severe abuse and neglect. The case has drawn global attention due to the gravity of the charges, the victim’s vulnerability, and the broader criminal proceedings now underway in court. buff.ly/ClLu5my 🥚

Tsachi Bardugo waited nearly 30 years to search for his biological family out of fear that doing so would betray his adoptive parents, and urges adoptive parents to support their children’s search for answers whenever they are ready rather than fearing what reunion might mean. 🥚

Towers discusses her new book 'What They Stole,' tracing the roots of intercountry adoption through the rise of the Holt Adoption Program, the devastating Iowa familicide that became its modern echo, and the belief that Korean children could be spiritually “saved” through adoption. buff.ly/FVDIU8G 🥚

An adoptee’s decades-long search for his father becomes a journey shaped by memory, family myth, and the limits of certainty. Believing his origins were tied to wartime tragedy and separation, he constructs a story of identity that follows him from childhood into adulthood. buff.ly/30iGdi4 🥚

Connections with biological family can surface deep tensions within adoptive families, particularly when adoptive parents experience those relationships as threatening, raising broader questions about autonomy and full acceptance within adoptive relationships. buff.ly/kvbOiXz 🥚

Jason and Jessica Klimp, a Michigan couple accused of abusing two of their adopted children with cages, restraints, and severe malnutrition, have pleaded no contest after previously pleading guilty to aggravated child abuse in Tennessee before being extradited back to Michigan. buff.ly/ULp6F95 🥚

So far, for a limited number of intercountry adoptees applying for Certificates of Citizenship, fingerprints are being required. Here's what to know about this development. 🥚 adopteerightslaw.com/fingerprints...

No child is “saved” by a system that protects adults and agencies while ignoring the rights of the child. Placing a child into a different family doesn't justify erasing their identity, and adoption can't be considered ethical care when a child’s humanity and rights are disregarded in the process.🥚

Her decision not to have children was shaped in part by her early experience of adoption and the lasting impact of maternal separation. In later life, she reflects on her childhood and finds meaning in the nurturing and the quiet companionship she shares with her rescue cat. buff.ly/pEbiuHr 🥚

After growing up in the US, this adoptee describes moving to Seoul as a turning point in understanding her identity, allowing her to reconnect with her biological family and heritage while navigating cultural dislocation and the divide between her adoptive upbringing and origins. buff.ly/sfWhWEz 🥚

The NH Supreme Court is hearing the case of Olivia Griffin, an adoptee originally from China, over police inaction during the 15 years of severe abuse endured when held captive in her adoptive home. She was awarded close to $30 million in a civil case against the adoptive parents. buff.ly/Y3okWLw 🥚

Safe Haven relinquishment would have disastrous ramifications under new citizenship policies that could leave abandoned infants without clear citizenship protections, placing them at risk of statelessness and creating deep legal gaps for adoptees relinquished in this manner. buff.ly/z9N9Pmm 🥚

A British court has overturned the adoption of a young boy after concerns emerged that his adoptive home was not safe, following the breakdown of the adoptive parents’ relationship and the woman’s undisclosed relationship with a prisoner with a history of sexual abuse of minors. buff.ly/5XOm5UC 🥚

Opening statements began last week in the trial of Lauren Maloberti, charged with criminal homicide and first-degree murder in the death of her adopted son, Landon. Prosecutors allege he was “isolated, mistreated, terrorized and killed.” Her husband Jacob was also charged. buff.ly/59oSymo 🥚

During AANHPI Heritage Month, Asian adoptees in Pennsylvania are exploring identity and reclaiming cultural heritage through creative outlets like martial arts, poetry, and singing, helping foster connection and combat the isolation that often accompanies transracial adoption. buff.ly/b85OdUD 🥚

Frédéric Blanjard’s decades-long journey reflects the deep, ongoing need many adoptees experience to understand their origins, not only for themselves but for the generations that follow, as identity gaps and missing family history can echo across a lifetime and beyond. buff.ly/rsfJDKw 🥚

What began with the discovery of a hidden sibling led to deeper truths about “homes for unwed mothers,” institutionalization, and the emotional aftermath of adoption. Through DNA, the sisters were ultimately reunited after their mother’s passing. NYT Gift Article 🥚

A group of birth mothers in South Korea is calling for a full government investigation into alleged negligence, and human rights violations tied to overseas adoption practices. Families say they were misled or coerced into relinquishing children who were later sent abroad. buff.ly/anojfPB 🥚

In 1968, Michigan Public Act 213 made original birth certificates and adoption records unavailable to adopted people without a court order or approval from the Public Health Director. That law stripped Michigan adoptees of the right to information about our own lives. 🥚

Justice delayed is justice denied. Nearly five years after 6-year-old Ariel Sellers was tortured, starved, and locked in a dog cage by her adoptive parents, who are charged with her murder, the trial has now been postponed again until April 2027. 🥚 www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2026/04/25/t...

Seeing adoption as a finished legal act or purely positive child welfare solution ignores the lifelong impacts adopted people carry, particularly around identity loss and other forms of harm that often fall outside existing legal remedies. 🥚

The death of Faith, 12, has renewed scrutiny of adoption systems and the failures that leave vulnerable children unprotected. Faith is one of numerous adoptees globally whose reported abuse, forced labor, and neglect by adoptive parents ended in death from injuries. punchng.com/faith-giving... 🥚

Roughly a fifth to a quarter of U.S. prison inmates are former foster youth. 'Wards of the State: The Long Shadow of American Foster Care' examines the foster care-to-prison pipeline and how failures in the child welfare system leave children vulnerable to incarceration and trauma. buff.ly/cK2kGfy 🥚

DNA technology has become one of the only paths to answers long denied by broken systems, missing records, and secrecy. A former foster youth reflects on finding his biological father through genetic testing and knowing his own relatives, history, and identity. buff.ly/aZf3RIw 🥚

While reunion can bring healing, connection, and answers, it can also bring up grief, rejection, divided loyalties, trauma, and the painful realities of relationships interrupted by adoption. Navigate these experiences along with others’ expectations is complex. 🥚

Systems meant to support children can define them in ways that limit identity and opportunity by reinforcing stereotypes that follow them into adulthood. Similar patterns also affect adopted people, who are frequently labeled through narratives of abandonment or rescue. buff.ly/hcOc1B5 🥚

In the aftermath of the Chernobyl disaster, thousands of children were displaced, institutionalized, or adopted across borders with no pathway back to their origins. Decades after being told the other had died, one mother and child were reunited, only to be separated again by war. buff.ly/dfEJXzO 🥚

AP’s investigation exposes how adopted kids are disproportionately placed into for-profit residential treatment facilities promising care for questionable diagnoses, but instead deliver confinement, coercion, and abuse, in violent systems that fail society’s most vulnerable. buff.ly/FWUwT0f 🥚

A 40-year-old man in Singapore recently learned he was adopted, leaving him feeling shock and betrayal as familiar traditions lost their meaning, highlighting the identity rupture many adoptees experience when adoption is not revealed until later in life. buff.ly/p9cLIwQ 🥚

Two have been charged in the death of a 14-year-old girl who was adopted and identified by her biological family in Sutter County, California. Prosecutors allege she suffered abuse and neglect leading to her death, prompting grief and calls for justice as the case moves forward. buff.ly/yxSeM2Q 🥚

As Wondery prepares to shut down on May 21, listen to Liberty Lost now before it transitions fully to Audible. The series exposes the reality inside Liberty University’s Godparent Home at a time when maternity homes are re-emerging in post-Roe America. wondery.com/shows/libert... 🥚

Federal family planning policy and adoption systems are intersecting in ways that remove agency from pregnant people, reviving a fertility-first agenda that echoes historic reproductive coercion and reinforces who can parent and who is pressured to place their baby for adoption. buff.ly/1WAovfG 🥚

Adopted at 6 months old, this young woman turned to social media to find her birth mother in Vietnam after years without access to information. When her posts gained traction, she connected with someone who helped trace her biological family, leading to their first conversation. 🥚

An Australian man’s reunion with his birth mother in Illinois came after decades of missed chances shaped by fear and the influence of others. After years of searching and waiting, DNA testing led him to the mother who had never been allowed to see him and had always longed to. buff.ly/NrAHK9j 🥚

Adoption can influence emotional development across a lifetime. Research shows that adoptees are at higher risk for conditions like anxiety, depression, and PTSD, shaped by early separation, attachment disruptions, and unresolved grief that society often overlooks. buff.ly/0UjH5Qb 🥚

Lawrence Drumgoole pled guilty to first-degree statutory rape of his 7 year old adopted daughter who became pregnant at 12 years old and delivered at 13. The abuse continued until she was 16. He was sentenced to 16-20 years in prison. 🥚https://buff.ly/69GGEkR

There are a number of problematic statements in this article, all centering a famous adoptive parent’s perspective, using the children’s personal stories to elevate it, and pushing a narrative of a guaranteed easier life all dismiss the reality that adoptees actually live with. buff.ly/UADVOoS 🥚

While the biological children receive their inheritance, the transracial adoptee’s share is being given to a parent-chosen charity that conflicts with the adoptee’s beliefs, highlighting how adoption status can impact respect and recognition in adoptive families. buff.ly/OvKB9VK 🥚

Phillip Watts was charged with first-degree rape, sexual abuse, sodomy, incest, and tampering with evidence after reports of abuse against his adopted child were substantiated. His wife, Kati Watts, was also arrested for being aware of the abuse and failing to report it. buff.ly/jqzvIcX 🥚

But according to Anderson, there is a problem, and it is really weird: While the babies aren’t being abandoned on the side of the road, two newborn infants were left at local hospitals shortly after birth, she said. bit.ly/3OKQC5N

After an initial meeting that left her feeling uncertain, Watson chose to step back from contact with her biological mother who was actively seeking connection. Years later, a second contact was met with a sense of regret alongside recognition in discovering shared traits. 🥚

A birth family is seeking to regain custody of an infant relinquished under Texas Safe Haven law, while adoptive parents claim entitlement to block reunification for their own interests, overshadowing the child’s right to identity, origins, and family connection. 🥚 www.msn.com/en-us/news/u...

This story examines the weight of secrecy in adoption, where one woman was expected to hide her identity for decades due to her parents’ unresolved shame around infertility. It was only after their deaths that she felt able to speak openly and begin to make sense of her own life. buff.ly/xoJ72Q4 🥚

AAOM was featured in this story after raising concerns about allocating substantial public funds to address a problem Jacksonville does not appear to have. For more information on the adoptee rights movement opposing baby boxes, please visit Stop Safe Haven Baby Boxes Now. buff.ly/Zf6Ff8U 🥚

Congrats Virginia! Today HB 301 was signed by Governor Spanberger, Virginia becomes the 17th state to restore an adoptee's right to their original birth certificate. The new law will take effect on July 1, 2026! 🥚 virginiaadopteerights.org/governor-sig... #adopteerights

Sen. Loki Tobin delivered a pointed critique of the AK Senate’s passage of a bill authorizing Safe Haven baby boxes, raising serious concerns about the policy. She brought attention to the broader implications of these laws and their potential harm to women, children, and society. buff.ly/AU8vmjk 🥚

The exhibition in Salmon Arm, B.C., confronts the Sixties Scoop experience, during which more than 20,000 First Nations, Métis, and Inuit children were displaced from their homes, renamed, and adopted into non-Indigenous families as part of colonial child welfare practices. buff.ly/lOAqRMx 🥚

South Korea’s Justice Minister has indicated a shift in how the government is addressing past international adoption practices, describing elements of the system as “forced child trafficking” and saying the government will not appeal rulings brought by adoptees. 🥚