A very small, but passionate, group of parents are advocates for a type of unassisted birth known as "free birth." Here's why ...

An adopted woman from Georgia recently embarked on a mission to find her birth parents — and she discovered in the process that she has been Facebook friends with her birth father the whole time.

Uncovering your origins can be one of the most profound and life-changing journeys you'll ever take. For adoptees, the search ...

The Supreme Court ruled on appeal on Sunday that the legal parents of Sophia, a young girl born following an embryo implantation mix-up in 2022, are her birth mother and the woman’s partner, and not ...

A Chinese man who was abducted as a young child has reunited with his birth parents more than two decades later and chosen to ...

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 ...

'It would be nice to at least have a name' says 81-year-old woman waiting to find out who her birth mother was Erin and Mike Merrigan, center, were college students at Saint Benedict and Saint John's ...

When a woman chooses to meet her birth parents alone, her adoptive mom feels blindsided Ashley Vega is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2024. Her work has previously ...

"The moment he looked at me, he knew that I was his daughter," the woman said Toria Sheffield joined the PEOPLE editorial staff in 2024. Her work as a writer/editor has previously appeared in places ...