Commentaries

Alabama Senate Committee Advances Bill Allowing Discrimination by Child Welfare Organizations

Published March 2, 2016 on www.HumanRightsCampaign.com Today, HRC Alabama denounced a 6 - 1 vote by the Alabama Senate Education and...

Inside The Agency That Provides Homes For Newborns While Birth Parents Consider Adoption

Published February 19, 2016, on Huffington Post An NYC-based non-profit organization offers a unique program for parents and newborns...

These Adoption Agencies Need Volunteers To Snuggle And Take Care Of Babies

Published on February 18, 2016, on BuzzFeed A story about becoming an interim care volunteer: Interim care allows biological parents who...

The Outside-In Fathers: The Single Man's Rough Road to Parenthood

Published in the Winter 2016 Edition of VQR (Virginia Quarterly Review) Adam Pertman mention: "Adam Pertman, author of Adoption Nation:...

PRACTICE GUIDELINES SUPPORTINGOPEN ADOPTION IN FAMILIES HEADEDBY LESBIAN AND GAY MALE PARENTS:

LESSONS LEARNED FROM THE MODERN ADOPTIVE FAMILIES STUDY David Brodzinsky, Ph.D. and Abbie Goldberg, Ph.D. The Modern Adoptive Families...

In Praise of ‘Duck Dynasty’ Clan’s Adoption of Teen Son

Published on Yahoo! Parenting January 5, 2016 Adam Pertman Mention: "It’s a wonderful thing, indeed, that the Robertsons are sharing...

Adoption from China on Working Mother Radio

Aired January 5, 2016, on Working Mother Radio. After decades of living under the unfair 'One Child Policy' in China, the law has finally...

Learn about NCAP on the Radio: Working Mother Radio

Aired on working Mother Radio on January 5, 2016 The National Center of Adoption and Permanency's mission is to move policy away from...

Adoption is a blessing for all

Published December 30, 2015, on San Francisco Examiner November is National Adoption Month, an opportunity to reflect on the importance...

Birth dads still fighting for bigger role in adoption process

You don't venture far into the world of adoption before you hear the word "triad." Picture a triangle with the adoptee at one corner,...

Impeding LGBT Parents Does Not Help Children Who Need Families

Posted on November 5, 2015, on Huffington Post Eventually, every candidate running for president will probably say it. Child-welfare...

How China's One-Child Policy Transformed U.S. Attitudes on Adoption

Radio interview on NPR with WNPR, Robert Siegel: To read the transcript or hear the live stream the audio, click here (Audio is 3:24)

Employers: It's Time to Get Real about 'Real' Families

Posted on October 29, 2015, on Huffington Post: National Work and Family Month are drawing to a close. But in these last few days before...

Adoption and Permanency: How To Help Families Become Successful

An interview with Adam Pertman by Marion Cook, an adoptive parent, and author: Permanency is the new word in the air around adoption....

Beyond Kentucky: Equality For All Should Include Adopted People, Too

Posted on September 4, 2015, on Huffington Post At the beginning of the 1900s, grim predictions punctuated the debate over women's...

NCAP Adds 5 to Team, Forms Partnership with Treehouse Foundation: New Members are Bruce Boyer, Susan

BOSTON, June 30, 2015 – The National Center on Adoption and Permanency is forming an important new strategic partnership with the...

Against the Backdrop of Selma, Another Injustice in America: Deporting Adoptees

Posted March 11, 2015 in the Huffington Post: It's somehow fitting that this story -- about the pending deportation of yet another...

NCAP AND AMERICAN INSTITUTES FOR RESEARCH ANNOUNCE PARTNERSHIP DESIGNED TO ACCELERATE BEST PRACTICES

BOSTON, March 2, 2015 – The National Center on Adoption and Permanency (NCAP) and the American Institutes for Research (AIR) today...

Law Would Permit Adoptees to Find Birth Parents

January 29, 2015: 1/30/2015 0 Comments Posted January 29, 2015, on CityLimits.org: Carole Whitehead was 18 when her parents sent her to...

Couple wants to void adoption of ‘mentally ill’ Russian orphans

Posted October 26, 2014, in the New York Post: A Long Island couple has asked a judge to vacate the adoption of two Russian-born children...