More and more Chinese adoptees in the US are trying to reunite with their birth parents. For Youxue, it took more than a ...

Adoptive parents would be allowed to provide more financial support to birth mothers under a popular proposal in New York — ...

Apr. 16—Haywood County commissioners have passed a resolution supporting a N.C. Senate bill that would make it easier for people who were adopted to get certified copies of their adoptive birth ...

For decades, California law has required adult adoptees to petition the courts and show “good and compelling cause” to access their own original birth certificates. This requirement, unique to ...

Born in New Orleans and adopted at eight weeks, Elise Lewis found her birth parents in 1996 when she was 28. But something important was missing: her birth certificate, with all the details it ...

California has long been a leader in civil rights, but there is one glaring exception: adult adoptees in our state are still denied the right to obtain their own original birth certificates. This ...

Back in 2000, Oregon and Alabama acted to ensure people who had been adopted could get access to their original birth certificates. Advocates of that goal, calling it an overdue recognition of basic ...

The topic of adoption has long been one-sided, dominated by well-meaning adoptive parents and the for-profit agencies that place kids into homes. That means the people who are supposed to benefit most ...

An adopted woman was reunited with her birth mother in Korea after spending almost 38 years apart – and discovered […] ...