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.
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 ...
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 ...
Four paragraphs printed on a single, yellowing page contain Patrice Waggoner’s only clues to the identity of her birth mother: She was 24 when she placed her newborn daughter for adoption in ...
'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 ...
Mary Jo Lindeberg is 81, but she has never stopped wondering: Who is she, really? She was born in St. Paul, just weeks after Pearl Harbor. She was adopted by an oral surgeon and his office nurse. They ...
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 ...
Everything changed last December when the police informed Peng that he was not originally from Jiangsu, as he had believed, ...
"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 ...
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 ...