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Abortion rights opponents sometimes tout adoption as an alternative to abortion. For many adoptees, it's not so simple. That's especially true for transracial adoptees, children adopted by a family of a different race.
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The Michigan Supreme Court will hear a challenge that could upend a law that allows birth parents to anonymously drop off newborns at a hospital, shelter, fire department, or other safe space.
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The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services is forming a taskforce to provide support to LGBTQ+ families wanting to foster or adopt children.
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WKAR will soon be welcoming a new Morning Edition host. Megan Schellong comes to WKAR from WLNS-TV in Lansing, where she spent the last one and a half…
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The Michigan attorney general's office has settled a lawsuit by same-sex couples who say their rights have been violated by faith-based adoption agencies…
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Attorney General Dana Nessel is working to settle a lawsuit against a state policy adopted by former Governor Rick Snyder. Capital Correspondent Cheyna…
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A federal judge has declined to dismiss a lawsuit which says Michigan is illegally allowing faith-based groups to reject same-sex couples who want to…
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Two Michigan agencies are denying a same-sex couple from Dimondale the chance to adopt a child, and the ACLU is suing Michigan’s Department of Health and…
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Michigan is facing a new lawsuit over same-sex couple adoptions. As Michigan Public Radio’s Rick Pluta reports, the ACLU says the state can’t let adoption…
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Michigan has just over 13,000 children in its foster care system. Most are living in licensed homes, but many live with relatives who are either licensed…