Stacey Dooley travels to America to explore the bittersweet world of open adoption. The majority of private adoptions in America are 'open', and encourage birth parents to pick the adoptive parents themselves and to stay in touch with their child as they grow up.

Stacey is in Detroit were she discovers how the 20,000 homeless people manage to survive in one of America's poorest states. This bankrupt city, has 70,000 abandoned buildings and is struggling to support the population it houses.

Stacey Dooley travels to Chicago, where almost half of those killed in 2013 were under 25.