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Employer Provided Adoption Benefits 101: How to Ask, Word-for-Word

Employer provided adoption benefits are financial and workplace supports offered by a company to employees who are growing the family through adoption. These benefits typically inc...

Positive Effects of Adoption on the Child

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Do You Get Paternity Leave for Adoption?

Yes, adoptive fathers are entitled to paternity leave under the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA), the same federal protection that covers biological parents. There’s no separate...

Exploring adoption as a single parent: Questions to ask with confidence

There are over 70,000 children waiting for adoption in the foster system every year according to federal data from NCFA and ACF. Yet, many prospective parents assume single-parent...

IRS Sends Automatic Adoption Credit Refunds To 50,000+ Families

IRS is sending automatic refunds of up to $5,000 per child to 50,000+ families with adoption tax credit carryforwards. No amended return needed. The post IRS Sends Automatic Adopti...

Letter of Recommendation for Adoption: Who to Ask, What to Include, and a Sample

A letter of recommendation for adoption, sometimes called an adoption reference letter, is a signed and dated note from a friend, colleague, or community member who can speak to yo...

Allegheny County Paid Parental Leave Update

According to a press release from the Allegheny County Board of Health, the Paid Parental Leave proposal has been amended as follows: Leave Period: Up to 12 weeks, taken within th...

California Expands What Is Covered by Paid Family Leave Benefits

California has passed Assembly Bill (AB) 2054, which expands the definition of “covered active duty” under Section 3302.1 of the Unemployment Insurance Code for purposes of eligibi...

The Power of Love: Celebrities Who Were Adopted and Their Impact

Families come in all different forms, and adoption is one of them. Adoption is an incredibly special thing, and it impacts people from all walks of life, even celebrities and other...

Adoption Papers and the Adoption Legal Process

When you’re considering adoption, you may have questions about adoption papers. What paperwork will you need to complete? When do you sign the legal adoption papers? What happens w...

Family Financial Planning: What Parents Should Know About Government Benefits

Government benefits for families can strengthen family financial planning through the Child Tax Credit, SNAP, CHIP, WIC and Social Security.

Ecuador: New Adoption Law Entrenches Bias

Click to expand Image Ecuador's National Assembly in Quito on October 23, 2024. ...

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Abortion vs Adoption: Know the Facts Before You Decide

If you’re comparing abortion vs. adoption, you’re facing one of the hardest decisions of your life, and it deserves more than a rushed answer. Abortion, adoption, and parenting are...

After years of trying, couple finds their forever family through adoption

ST. AMANT- After five years of trying to have children, Rev. Merton Wilcox, an assistant pastor at the Apostolics of Ascension, and his wife received a call about two years ago tha...

Mozambican Supreme Court Recognises an Indian Adoption: A Teleological Approach to the Recognition of Foreign Acts

  I. Introduction Can a foreign adoption deed be given effect in Mozambique? What procedural steps must be followed, and which requirements must be satisfied? Does the fact that th...

The Truth About Being Chosen: What Adoptive Parents Need to Know

Melissa perched on the edge of her chair, with a cup of hot coffee in her hands. She grabbed her phone and started to eagerly browse her adoption agency‘s website, something that s...

Celebs You Never Knew Were Adopted

Adoption changes the entire trajectory of a child’s world. In so many cases, they’re given a second chance with an adoptive family and a new life. In the best-case scenarios, the a...

Can Same-Sex Couples Adopt a Child in Illinois?

Same-sex couples can adopt in Illinois with the same rights and the same process as any other couple. Illinois law does not distinguish based on sexual orientation or gender identi...

Administrative Shift in Adoption Tax Credit Carryforward Treatment for Tax Year 2025: IRS to Issue Refunds to Affected...

IRS Newsroom, “IRS has begun issuing automatic refunds to individuals who claimed Adoption Tax Credit carryforward from prior years,” IR-2026-123 (Oct. 16, 2026). The Intern...

Haitian girl home with U.S. adoptive family as Lifeline promotes streamlined process

Former orphan Grace Pierre Dowey of Haiti wasted no time in greeting her new siblings, first lifting into her arms her 1½-year-old sister Sadie, hugging her two brothers Henry and...

Illinois court limits wrongful death claims by equitably adopted children

Decades as a father figure weren't enough without formal adoption papers

Oregon settles lawsuit after Christian mother denied adoption for LGBTQ+ beliefs

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — The Oregon Department of Human Services cannot deny an adoption application on the basis of religious views according to a court order filed last week. The...

Gay adoption: The societal experiment nobody is supposed to question

A video recently surfaced online featuring a young American who proudly insisted that same-sex couples make better parents than the boring old bread-and-butter type.The ferociously...