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“Adoptees are told to just be grateful that we were chosen. And yet so many of us are struggling.”

Police in North Carolina arrested a former college professor on first-degree murder charges, after they alleged his 6-week-old adopted son died from injuries stemming from physical abuse at his hands.

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In a wide-ranging interview, the real estate mogul opens up about her upbringing--and how it helped her as an entrepreneur and Shark Tank judge.

Thomas Rhett’s 6-year-old daughter has started asking some tough family questions, and the country star admits he’s not ready to have a deep conversation about adoption just yet.

Fathers have rights too!

MIAMI — Two days after Alysha Princess Cesaire gave birth to her son on Feb. 1, 2018, someone at Hollywood’s Memorial Regional Hospital phoned the state’s child abuse hotline to e…

Serena so desperately wants to be a mother, and I identify with that.

A dozen men are suing the state of Utah in federal court because of a law that allows mothers to put their babies up for adoption without the biological father's consent, or sometimes even knowledge. The civil rights lawsuit claims the Utah Adoption Act has resulted in what amounts to "legalized fraud and kidnapping."

A local family desperately wants to adopt their 4-year-old relative, but they say the state is preventing them from keeping the little girl in the family. Instead, the family’s lawyer says one of the employees at the adoption agency they used is trying to adopt the child.

“What’s happening at the Supreme Court is that people are using us to further their own agenda. They’re co-opting our lives and our stories.”

When Hugh Jackman and Deborra-lee Furness adopted 
a baby boy from 
a rural American family – who 
was born almost 20 years 
ago to the day amid tragic circumstances – they knew 
they faced a lifelong, incredibly emotional journey. And now that Oscar is 18, he's decided to reunite with his birth family.

Orsa Moldauer remembers watching her son Yul on the playground after school. Then 7 years old, Yul and a group of his friends took turns going across a set of monkey bars.

Swimmer Margaret MacNeil won the 100-meter butterfly final ahead of China's Zhang Yufei.

No one expected a gay, single man to become a father. But Jerry Windle's dreams came true when he adopted Jordan.

Filmmaker Elizabeth Jacobs, 21, will revisit the claim that 'poor Cambodian families are preyed on by baby recruiters' in her documentary, The Stolen Children

How many kids are you allowed??- foster/adopt - Parenting Large Families

Myka and James Stauffer adopted a toddler from China and shared every step of the process with their online audience. Except the last.

Myka Stauffer built her YouTube following partly by sharing every step of her journey to adopt a toddler from China. This week, she revealed why he’d gone missing from her videos.

Sia is an award-winning singer songwriter with decades of experience in the music industry and is the mastermind behind many of our favourite songs. However, she is also a mastermind at maintaining her privacy and keeping the details of her personal life out of the tabloids. Including the fact that at 44 years old, Sia […]

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His adopted son’s biological grandpa is pleading with the actor.

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