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

Discovering where you come from can be one of the most meaningful journeys of your life. For adoptees, the search for birth parents often feels like uncovering a vital piece of their story-a puzzle ...

Adopted children sometimes search for their biological parents out of curiousity, but sometimes it's a matter of life and death. Family medical histories are severed by adoption. Now, there's a battle ...

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 ...

If an adoption is closed, or a child is adopted internationally, adoptees may spend much of their lives wondering who their birth parents are or whether they’re still alive. Whether or not to search ...

In September of 2022, at the start of her senior year at Indiana’s Purdue University, Mia Griffin was working in her bedroom, laptop propped up on her knees, when an e-mail came in from 23andMe saying ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – When she was about 7 years old, Marni Hall’s parents sat her and her older brother down and revealed that they’d both been adopted. Then that was it. She didn’t press her parents for ...

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 ...