Foster care is a service for children who cannot live with their families. There are many reasons for foster care, the most common of which is parental neglect and/or substance abuse. At any one time, more than 400,000 US children are in foster care. Although 59% are...
Approximately 29% of LGBTQIA+ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer/questioning, intersex, asexual/agender, and other orientations/identities) adults are raising a child, and 2 to 3.7 million children have an LGBTQIA+ parent. These families often experience challenges....
Nuclear families (consisting of a married man and woman and their children) have long been regarded as the default domestic arrangement. Nonetheless, there are many other family structures that are becoming increasingly more common and complex. Single-parent families can...
Third-party fertility treatments refer to use of egg donors, sperm donors, donated embryos, and/or third-party gestational carriers/surrogates to have a child. There are two main categories of fertility treatments: intrauterine insemination (IUI) and in vitro fertilization ...
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