Adoption is a great way to grow your family. But, there are many types of adoption from which to choose. If you consider adoption, you can go for a closed or open adoption. Here’s all you need to know ...

When I was born, my Korean parents, immigrants to the United States, relinquished me for adoption. At the age of two and a half months, I was placed with a white family who lived in a small town in ...

On August 1, 1966, a baby girl is born in Norfolk, Virginia. Her mother names her Melanie Lynn. She is placed in foster care for two months to make sure she has no medical issues. Then she is adopted ...

Should adoption records be open? Several adoptees, birth parents and others offer their personal, often moving stories. To the Editor: Re “I Was Denied My Birth Story,” by Steve Inskeep (Op-Ed, March ...

You could say I grew up not knowing who I was. I knew that I’d been born in an Indianapolis hospital in 1968, and that my parents had adopted me when I was 10 days old. That was it. I didn’t know who ...

Penelope Needham advocated for the passage of a law that will allow adoptees to access sealed birth records beginning in 2024. A team of volunteers who joined her in this effort gave her a book ...

Erin Huppert, who was adopted from South Korea as an infant, wasn’t much interested in learning more about her pre-adoption history. But the St. Paul resident is reconsidering that now. “I have never ...