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

Rarely do people from across the political spectrum so vehemently agree on an issue, which is how you know it makes sense for ...

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 ...

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 ...

For decades, California law has required adult adoptees to petition the courts and show “good and compelling cause” to access ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Utah finalizes adoptions faster than almost any other state — and right now, once papers are signed, birth parents can't ...

As her daughters get older, Hoda Kotb shared how she has broached the subject of them being adopted when they ask her about it. The former TODAY co-anchor spoke with Jenna Bush Hager and Sheinelle ...