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

In September of 2022, at the start of her senior year at Indiana’s Purdue University, Mia Griffin was working in her bedroom, laptop propped up on her knees, when an e-mail came in from 23andMe saying ...

Adopted children sometimes search for their biological parents out of curiousity, but sometimes it's a matter of life and death. Family medical histories are severed by adoption. Now, there's a battle ...

Entertainer and speaker Willie Moore Jr., who was adopted and later found his birth family, poses with his birth mother, Katrina Walton, left, and his ‘forever mom,’ Flora Moore. Photo courtesy of ...

If an adoption is closed, or a child is adopted internationally, adoptees may spend much of their lives wondering who their birth parents are or whether they’re still alive. Whether or not to search ...

Born in New Orleans and adopted at eight weeks, Elise Lewis found her birth parents in 1996 when she was 28. But something important was missing: her birth certificate, with all the details it ...

In the last few weeks of the Vietnam War, the U.S. government conducted Operation Babylift, a series of evacuation flights to bring thousands of Vietnamese children out of South Vietnam. In total over ...

When Ali Marie Watson conceived a child in 2012, she sought to place her baby in adoption. The Paduca, Kentucky, native studied 30 profiles of adoptive couples sent to her by her adoption agency. The ...

IN THEIR OWN WAY. THREE ASIAN ADOPTEES, MILES APART FROM THEIR BIRTHPLACES BUT UNITED BY SHARED ROOTS HERE IN THE SUSQUEHANNA VALLEY. I WANT TO TAKE YOU TO CAMBODIA. IN THE LATE 1990S, MORE THAN 400 ...