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adoption
June 29, 2023
Magazine
Maria Laurino
The Right’s New Post-
Dobbs
Panacea: The Baby Safe Deposit Box
To the right, it’s a “clean” alternative to abortion—mothers can just drop their babies off in fire station boxes. And it’s spreading across the country. How did a desperate and once criminal act get turned into a good thing?
June 15, 2023
Tori Otten
Supreme Court Delivers Major Win for Native Rights and Tribal Sovereignty
In a stunning ruling, the Supreme Court has rejected a challenge to the Indian Child Welfare Act.
March 21, 2023
Critical Mass
Jasmine Liu
Homecoming Offers Few Certainties and Fewer Consolations in
Return to Seoul
Director Davy Chou’s second movie is an adoption story for an age of ambivalence.
November 9, 2022
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Matt Ford
The Future of Tribal Sovereignty Is in the Supreme Court’s Hands
The high court catches a case that’s both dizzyingly complicated and relatively simple: Are tribal governments a legitimate part of the U.S. constitutional order?
June 1, 2016
Kathryn Joyce
The Truth About China’s Missing Daughters
A new book debunks the myth that Chinese parents favored sons.
January 11, 2016
Kathryn Joyce
The Trouble With the Christian Adoption Movement
Evangelical Americans believed adoption could save children in the developing world from poverty—and save their souls.
July 23, 2015
Suzy Khimm
The New Nuclear Family
What gay marriage means for the future of parenthood
July 14, 2015
Kathryn Joyce
Why Does Open Adoption Rarely Work?
April 21, 2015
Kathryn Joyce
“Do You Understand That Your Baby Goes Away and Never Comes Back?”
Adoption is embraced in the Marshall Islands, but in the Ozarks, it means something very different. The tragic consequences of cultural misunderstanding.
September 2, 2013
Emily Matchar
Meet the New Anti-Adoption Movement
The surprising next frontier in reproductive justice
July 7, 2013
Julia Ioffe and Max Avdeev
The Americans
Meet the families Vladimir Putin doesn't want to exist
February 14, 2013
Liza Mundy
The Strange History of the Birth Certificate
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