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In Good Faith? U.S. Legal Battle Over Gay Adoption Intensifies

By Oscar Lopez — 2020

When Fatma Marouf and her wife Bryn Esplin decided to foster refugee children in their home state of Texas, being rejected because of their sexual orientation never crossed their minds.

Read on www.reuters.com

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You’ll Forget This Ever Happened: Secrets, Shame, and Adoption in the 1960s

Mississippi, 1967. It’s the Summer of Love, yet unwed mothers’ maternity homes are flourishing, secret closed adoptions are routine, and many young women still have no voice.

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Laura L. Engel
2022
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Queering Family Trees: Race, Reproductive Justice, and Lesbian Motherhood

One might be tempted, in the afterglow of Obergefell v. Hodges, to believe that the battle has been won, that gays and lesbians fought a tough fight and finally achieved equality in the United States through access to legal marriage.

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Sandra Patton-Imani
2025
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The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe v. Wade

In this deeply moving and myth-shattering work, Ann Fessler brings out into the open for the first time the astonishing untold history of the million and a half women who surrendered children for adoption due to enormous family and social pressure in the decades before Roe v. Wade.

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Ann Fessler
2025
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Motherhood So White: A Memoir of Race, Gender, and Parenting in America

The story every mother in America needs to read. As featured on NPR and the TODAY Show. All moms have to deal with choosing baby names, potty training, finding your village, and answering your kid’s tough questions, but if you are raising a Black child, you have to deal with a lot more than that.

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Nefertiti Austin
2019
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How Much Does It Cost to Adopt a Child? Foster to Adopt, Domestic & International

This is a listing of all the costs that I know of for adoption. Lots of different options.

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2018
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A Hard Part of the Adoption Process...

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2019
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The Adoption Process Begins!

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2019
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Understanding the Adoption Process

The adoption process is extremely rigorous. For couples who are considering adoption, there are seven steps in the adoption process before a final Adoption Order is granted.

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2015
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IVF IUI ICSI GIFT Embryo Adoption Procedures Explained in Tamil | Modern Infertility Treatments

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2014
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The Adoption Process: Mom Minute with Mindy from Cutegirlshairstyles

Hey everyone! I have been through the adoption process not once.but twice! Each time it has been such a rewarding experience. I often receive questions about how the adoption process works. Although my process may have differed from someone else's, I'm going to try my best to walk you through it!

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2013
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