The AFRO knows what it’s like to endure challenging times. John H. Murphy, Sr., a former enslaved man founded the AFRO in 1892 with $200 from his wife, Martha Howard Murphy. Together they ...

Lifespan Family Services of PA, a social service agency providing foster care and adoption services to DuBois and the ...

reducing the costs of child care once the kid joins your family. Adoption through a private agency: $30,000 to $60,000. Costs included: home study, legal fees, counseling for the birth parents ...

Private adoption agencies increasingly are focusing on open adoptions as research supports its benefits. What does the ...

Nyla Williams, the Director of Youth Well-Being and Family Support Services for Family Support Services of Pasco and Pinellas ...

One of the policy proposals supported by Project 2025 is the Child Welfare Provider Inclusion Act, which would allow adoption and foster care agencies to make placement decisions based on the ...

Domestic adoptions in the U.S. cost less than $2,800 if done through the foster care system, or between $30,000 and $60,000 through an adoption agency. “There are over 113,000 children and youth ...

For more than two decades, a woman named Georgia Tann ran a large-scale child trafficking ring under the pretense of a legitimate adoption agency. Over 5,000 children were kidnapped by Tann ...

a project of the Children’s Bureau at the Department of Health and Human Services. Need a break? Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle. Lawmakers, however, can help alleviate this adoption d ...