For families living in states without order of parentage, they can look to secure parentage rights through adoption, sometimes known as second-parent or stepparent adoption. While the thought of ...

A study released last year by the National Council For Adoption and the Catholic University of America found that private domestic, non-stepparent adoptions nationwide declined 24% from 2019 to ...

Figures on adoption of children from foreign countries are based on various sources. For the period up to and including 1994, the totals of non-stepparent adoptions are supplied by the courts. The ...