Bonnie and her birth daughter reunited
Families can pursue several options to adopt a baby: domestic public agency adoption, domestic private agency adoption, international adoption and independent non-agency adoption.
Adoptees are finding biological families through DNA testing. Learn which new DNA tests are helping with tracing birth parents.
Apart from a few niggling questions, her adoptive family were always enough for Rosie Garland
In hindsight, my approach of trying to reach my birth mother by telephone had been unsophisticated and clumsy. It was immature of me to assume Rebecca would confess her sins to a complete stranger.…
Once he found his birth mother, he learned she named her restaurant Bruce after him, and always believed he would come back to her.
The story of Philomena Lee and her son, told in the new movie starring Judi Dench, scorches me. Like her son, I was adopted. Like and unlike the story...
I'm celebrating. I took my last oral chemo tablet on August 7 and I'm off with my Prada bag to have a latte at Café Chico with friends.
A woman who was abandoned as a baby on a sidewalk outside Fremont Medical Center in 1971 has turned to social media in an ongoing search to find her biological mother.
WALNUT COVE — A steady stream of friend requests and messages roll in to Steve Edsel’s Facebook account throughout the day.
"I wonder if I look like my mother?" I was 16 when I, almost absentmindedly, asked the question while on vacation with our family in Mexico. It was a question that had plagued me for as long as I could remember. Earlier that day, we’d been talking about traits shared between family members, and my sister and mom had to be reminded that I wasn’t genetically related to them.Mom, walking ahead
An adopted person can -- sometimes -- be fortunate enough to find the identity of their biological mother and father through one of the major commercial DNA tests available today. And they can potentially learn quite a lot from it.
A woman originally from East Tennessee is trying to find her birth mother. She’s used social media to get her message out, but has run into some obstacles and asked WATE 6 On Your Side for help.
Meet Rich Jones and his two moms.
O'Kane wrote the few facts she knows about her mother and the circumstances of her birth...
[KHTS] – This year, Chris Schauble, KTLA news anchor and Stevenson Ranch resident, celebrated Mother’s Day twice over, honoring his adoptive mom and his birth mom, who he met for the first time in April. It came after Schauble’s six-month journey to find his birth family, that ended in meeting his birth mother, Virginia Robinson and the family...
Felicity Brown was adopted by a family 28 years ago but in 2012 she decided she wanted to find her birth mum Theresa Mary McCloskey.
OLEAN — For individuals who are trying to locate a loved one they have never met, it can be a challenge. Now, couple that probe with trying to find someone who gave you up for adoption.
Trend alert for adoptees in search! The Facebook community page “You Know You’re An Adoptee When….” has been posting text embellished photos of adoptees who are searching fo…
It took one woman more than half a century to find a piece of her familial roots. Kriste Hughes, 51, was reunited with her birth mother and brother after a lengthy search. Hughes was one of 200 chi…
Tana Inskeep was born in a Houston hospital in 1978 and has been wondering about her biological family ever since.
A Michigan woman, who decided that Father’s Day was the right time to look for her dad, is getting a lot more help by using a personal touch. Quila Hyman, an aerial performer in Novi, Mich., …
Comedian and writer Mark Steel recently found out the story behind his adoption in 1960. And the truth was so extraordinary that you almost couldn’t make it up …
