When Nia Vardalos, writer and star of My Big Fat Greek Wedding, left for New York to promote her new book this week, her daughter Ilaria looked up and told her, “Go get some kids adopted.”

This amazing mom gave her adopted son something he’d been missing from his life: baby pictures.

Rick and Erica Jones have been on the waiting list of a small, local adoption agency for two years. Unfortunately, the agency doesn’t have the financial funds to market their clients in the way a larger adoption agency would. Since the couple couldn’t afford a larger agency, Rick began asking celebrities to retweet the Jones’ adoption profile…read more

The times of closed adoptions shrouded in secrecy are becoming a thing of the past, as The Washington Times reports that an estimated 95 percent of adoptions are now “open,” meaning at least some level of contact between the two families is regular and welcomed, according to a report from the Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute.