adoption

Animal Shelters Embrace Dating App Style Profiles to Help “Unadoptable” Pets Find Loving Homes

Jesse Kessenheimer

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30-year-old stepmom refuses to adopt her 12-year-old stepdaughter because she doesn't think they're close enough: 'Her mom passed when she was 2! This woman is the only mother she's got.

Emmy Pratt

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Dad fosters 5-year-old boy, demands 17-year-old daughter living in another state take on big sister duties: 'I didn’t feel comfortable being a sister to someone I’ve never seen in person'

Ally Perry

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14-year-old constantly mocks her 16-year-old sister for being adopted, older sister discovers that they're actually both adopted: 'My parents said don't tell my sister or she'll be devastated'

Emmy Pratt

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Adopted woman receives 6-figure inheritance from the birth mother she never met, her siblings demand she share the money with them: 'It isn't fair I got everything when they also "deserve" it being adopted as well'

Emmy Pratt

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Dad abandons infant son, flips out when he gets rebuffed trying to adopt him at 17 while having 5 other kids under 10: 'I don't belong in this family'

Ally Perry

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14-year-old adopted son keeps in contact with bio dad but refuses to meet his new wife, dad insists on making them bond until wife puts her foot down: ‘He wants nothing to do with me’

Bar Mor Hazut

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14-year-old who has been living with her aunt since she was 8 tells her mom, who she hasn't talked to in 4 years, that she'll never forgive her if she messes up her adoption: 'My mom called my aunt crying about what I said and my aunt got mad at me'

Emmy Pratt

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26-year-old aunt admits to 14-year-old nephew that he is adopted, faces backlash from older brother and wife: 'I'm not a parent, so I don't understand the gravity of what I've done'

Ally Perry

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Stepmom insists 16-year-old stepson calls her mom and lets her adopt him after being married to his dad for 1 year, gets offended when he refuses: 'I already have a mom'

Ally Perry

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22-year-old college student interviews sister-in-law about giving baby up for adoption at 20, gets angry when she says she doesn't regret it: 'This was the only good decision for him'

Ally Perry

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‘They think giving me up was temporary’: Adopted 18-year-old cuts contact with bio parents after years of dealing with their possessive behavior, they refuse to accept it

Bar Mor Hazut

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19-year-old finds out she's adopted at 17, adoptive parents rage after she meets her bio mom and reveals her anger at the secret: 'My parents treated me as ungrateful for asking questions'

Ally Perry

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Girlfriend tells her 24-year-old boyfriend's adoptive daughter 5-year-old daughter that he's not her real dad because he's biologically her brother: 'I got custody of her when I was 19'

Emmy Pratt

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Dad refuses to allow his second wife to adopt his 8-year-old daughter against her wishes, wife threatens divorce if he stands his ground: ‘I told her to divorce me then’

Lana DeGaetano

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Parents insist on keeping in contact with the ‘daughter’ they gave up for adoption over 20 years ago, she refuses to go along, leading to an intense confrontation: ‘You're not my parents’

Bar Mor Hazut

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