There are approximately 1.5 million adopted children in the United States — that's about 2 percent of the population or one out of every 50 children. Adoption is widely viewed as a win-win for ...

Entertainer and speaker Willie Moore Jr., who was adopted and later found his birth family, poses with his birth mother, Katrina Walton, left, and his ‘forever mom,’ Flora Moore. Photo courtesy of ...

When I was born, my Korean parents, immigrants to the United States, relinquished me for adoption. At the age of two and a half months, I was placed with a white family who lived in a small town in ...

In 2006, a young woman named Jaime was sexually assaulted and became pregnant—a fact she only learned about in her second trimester. A local crisis pregnancy center helped connect her with a Christian ...

There are more federal tax cuts in the works for people who adopt children. Birth mothers say they also want financial support so they don't have to place their infants up for adoption.

Noah loves water. So just after he was baptized at the San Juan Capistrano mission parish at 17 months on Easter Monday 2022, the new Catholic got his dream come true—his hand in the baptismal font.

Birth mothers who created adoption plans for their children with Adoptions From the Heart say they were embraced by the agency and given comfort, support, and acceptance through the emotional process.

The Instagram message from my birth mother came in at 10:45 a.m. Eastern time, meaning it was 11:45 p.m. where she lived. It was jumbled, and she’d clearly hit “send” before she had written everything ...

JUSTICE. BECOMING A MOTHER HAS REALLY SHAPED ME AND AND MADE ME THINK A LOT ABOUT MY ROOTS AND MY ADOPTION, WHICH IS WHAT LED ME TO TO THIS SEARCH. 35 YEAR OLD CARA MIRANDA HAS ALWAYS KNOWN SHE’S ...

Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi just had the most emotional moment of her "Jersey Shore" journey. On the latest episode of "Jersey Shore: Family Vacation," the 37-year-old reality star spoke to her birth ...

“You’re so lucky that your birth mother chose adoption,” the man at church said to me with a smile. I didn’t ask how he knew that I was adopted—everyone knew that I was adopted as soon as they saw me ...

This story was reported and published in partnership with Newsy. Shyanne Klupp was 20 years old and homeless when she met her boyfriend in 2009. Within weeks, the two had married, and within months, ...