My husband and I adopted four children over the span of seven years. All of them are open adoptions. These arrangements allow for varying degrees of contact between adoptive and birth families. In our ...

When I adopted my daughter, Liv, as a baby, I cut all ties with her birth mom. I told myself I was doing it to protect my new family and ensure Liv’s life was stable. For years, things were perfect, ...

A US couple adopted a nine-year-old girl from a Russian orphanage in 1997, but the family broke down amid disputed allegations – now the adopted daughter tells her side of the story ...

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 ...

When a teenage girl's adoption became official, her new mom had a surprise in store. J-dyn, pronounced "Jayden," first came into Bobbiejo's life as a niece who spent summers with the family. When ...