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Adoption

January 2025

  • Hannah Cho in An Update on our Family.

    The watcher
    An Update on Our Family: the utterly shocking tale of the ‘family vloggers’ who ‘rehomed’ their adopted son

    This docuseries doesn’t just show the tale of the YouTubers who created content out of adopting a child – until they gave him up. It’s also a valuable indictment of our obsession with living online

December 2024

  • Maria Arbuckle

    How we survive
    I was forced to give my baby away – and it was 40 years before I saw him again

    Abused as a child, barely able to support herself as an adult, Maria Arbuckle was one of thousands of unmarried women who suffered in Ireland’s mother and baby homes. She talks about her long battle to be reunited with her son – and the tragedy that struck soon after

October 2024

  • British-born children of African American servicemen in the grounds of Holnicote House, 1948.

    How Britain’s ‘brown babies’ were hidden away: the secret history of the first mixed race orphanage

    At least 2,000 babies were born to Black GIs stationed in Britain during the second world war and a home was created for some of them: Holnicote House in Somerset. Those who grew up there are now telling their stories

September 2024

  • Mary Husted: Dreams, Oracles, Icons, 1991 Mary Husted for Family

    The great women's art bulletin
    ‘Was he out there looking for me?’: the artworks that help adopted children feel seen

  • Lauren and Harrison Smith with their daughters and a picture of Benaiah, the Chinese boy they were in the processing of adopting before Beijing announced on 4 September that it was no longer allowing inter country adoptions.

    ‘It breaks us deeply’: anguish as China closes door to foreign adoptions

  • Alan Rushton

    Other lives
    Alan Rushton obituary

  • A slightly distressed middle-aged east Asian woman holds hand to her her face and looks off-camera

    Rights and freedom
    South Korea reveals new evidence of ‘violent and systemic’ forced adoption abroad

  • Twine review – threeway tree metaphors in a fractured exploration of adoption

  • China says it is ending foreign adoptions, prompting concern from US

August 2024

  • Jenni Fagan and Samantha Morton photographed at the Union Club in London, August 2024

    ‘The hardest thing is to forgive yourself’: actor Samantha Morton and writer Jenni Fagan on the trauma of growing up in care

  • Veronica Smith in the 1970s, when she was working as a nurse at Royal Free hospital in London

    Other lives
    Veronica Smith obituary

July 2024

  • man and woman wearing plaid shirts and glasses

    A Jewish couple were rejected as foster parents because of their religion. This is the future Project 2025 envisions

  • A middle-aged woman sits in a tidy kitchen and show off her passport from when she was an infant.

    Chile’s stolen children: a new effort offers hope to Pinochet-era international adoptees

June 2024

  • Alan Edwards shot at his office for OM

    Bowie and Spice Girls PR Alan Edwards: ‘Through punk I found another family’

    The music publicist was given up for adoption and always had a sense of not belonging but, in his job, he found his kindred spirits

May 2024

  • A baby awaiting adoption near Guatemala City. Photograph: Peter Casolino/Alamy

    The Audio Long Read
    Guatemala’s baby brokers: how thousands of children were stolen for adoption – podcast

    From the 1960s, baby brokers persuaded often Indigenous Mayan women to give up newborns while kidnappers ‘disappeared’ babies. Now, international adoption is being called out as a way of covering up war crimes. By Rachel Nolan
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  • Sion Daniel Young in Lost Boys & Fairies.

    ‘We were all going through traumas under one roof’: the drag queen adoption drama inspired by real life

    Daf James’s life was upended when he and his husband adopted three kids – and he knew he had to write about it. As Lost Boys & Fairies hits the screen, the writer and cast talk about queer lives, Welshness and what makes a family click
  • Melissa Noble with brother Shawn, pictured 2023 at brother Michael's wedding

    ‘Same large forehead. Similar nose. Dad’s bulging calves’: the day I met my long-lost brother

    Melissa Noble was 18 when her father revealed he had given up a son for adoption. Meeting her eldest brother for the first time changed her family in unexpected ways

April 2024

  • Sean and Emily with their birth mother, Sara, outside her house in Santiago, Chile

    She was told her babies were dead. Instead they were sold abroad. What happened when she met them 40 years on?

  • ‘There is something ghostly about being adopted. A set of tiny details is not much to make into a whole person’ Jackie Kay.

    Poet Jackie Kay: ‘I could have been brought up by Tories!’

February 2024

  • Chris Maunders (right) and his biological grandfather Jack Phillips

    double quotation markHow a chance discovery revealed a new family connection, and unlocked my musical gene pool

    Chris Maunders
    A long-lost family connection helped me make sense of the role music had always played in my life
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