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New Jersey Opens Adoptive Birth Records
Ending decades of struggle between advocates and opponents, New Jersey opens adoptive birth records with new legislation, amending state law which has sealed the original birth certificates of adopted individuals since 1940. Beginning on January [...]
Sister Acted as a Surrogate
We waited outside the courtroom to be called before the judge to finalize an unusual adoption in which a sister acted as a surrogate. After years of in vitro fertilization cycles and three miscarriages, June [...]
Struggles of a Teen Birth Father
Teen birth mothers’ voices abound in books, blogs, articles, and films, but the struggles of a teen birth father are seldom recorded. Told through the eyes of a teenage birth father, Jo Knowles’s affecting young [...]