Thirty years after my parents were pressured into placing me with an adoption agency, I finally reconnected with them. But it was nothing like the neat stories you see on TV ...

Birth parents, both mothers and fathers, are a key piece of the adoption puzzle. The vast majority make the difficult decision to place their child for adoption out of what they perceived to be the ...

An Upstate, faith-based nonprofit is helping families navigate the adoption process, especially young women facing the ...

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 ...

Reg Barker says his mother was forced to give him up for adoption by hospital staff.

Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi emotionally reconnected with her birth mom for the first time during a recent episode of MTV’s “Jersey Shore: Family Vacation,” more than three decades after she was adopted ...

I always knew I was adopted. It wasn’t delivered with an EastEnders drum-roll, no late-night confession, no kitchen-sink reveal. It was simply one of the facts of our house, filed alongside other ...

Abandoned at a few days old in a public location, I spent much of my first year in an orphanage and found a forever family from a small town in Canada at nine months old. Adoption changed my life in ...

For the first time ever, Snooki had the opportunity to ask her birth mom any questions she’s ever had for her. Screengrab from Snooki's Instagram page During the June 5 episode of “Jersey Shore: ...