Open adoption succeeds because it incorporates three essential ingredients: choice, trust and love. The birth mother has the ...

Author Nicole Chung, shown here in a provided photo, has documented her experience growing up as a Korean American adoptee in a white family in Southern Oregon in her two memoirs, “All You Can Ever ...

Everything shifted after Raeyn Bailey Perri’s birth — at least it did in the lives of the adults who love her. Richard Perri knew his life would change the moment he saw Nicole Bailey, his wife, in ...

On Nov. 23, Baltimore City held its annual National Adoption Day event, celebrating and recognizing families created through adoption. Since its inception in November 2000, National Adoption Day ...

Pennsylvania residents Caitlin Trone and Christian Mayer were both adopted, but Trone's adoption was open and Mayer's was not. Mayer's closed adoption created a lot of guilt and shame he had to ...

In 1964 as our family was moving into a new home the Baby Boom was ending. Our parents had produced six kids. To the east the next houses had two kids each in grade school, to our west there were ...

FARGO – Angela and Ray Schepp of Stanley, N.D., want their son to know where he came from. That’s why they’ve kept in contact with 6-month-old Hogan’s birth parents since they adopted him shortly ...

The United States Postal Service announced Monday that "Operation Santa" has opened for letter adoption for the 2025 holiday ...