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“Race matters in adoption because race matters in America.” ---Twila L. Perry As a white mom with two black kids, I reluctantly agree with that statement. I’d prefer it not to be true and frankly, living in a mixed, working class neighborhood in Los Angeles, haven’t...

As an attorney who focuses her practice on adoption law and a mother of six, including two adopted children, it can be hard to talk about the challenges that sometimes arise in a foster adoption or international adoption. On the one hand, not talking about the ongoing...

Any way you look at it, the number of children in Los Angeles County without a stable home to call their own is staggering. The foster care program serves nearly 30,000 youth in Los Angeles County alone, and many of those youth face incredible challenges in getting...

California has long recognized the right of a stepparent to adopt the biological child of his or her spouse through a stepparent adoption, which terminates the parental rights of the other biological parent, which is often an ex-spouse of the parent retaining custody....