Italy’s Constitutional Court ruled Friday that unmarried people can adopt foreign minors, ending a 40-year-ban on the practice and setting a precedent that could pave the way to allowing Italian singles to adopt from within the country.

Jeanette Woodyatt says it "felt like something was missing" before she met her half-brother Graham Briggs

Five U.S. adoptees took off from Houston on Friday to reunite with their birth families in Chile for the first time after they were stolen as infants decades ago during the Augusto Pinochet dictatorship.

"I'm not afraid now to return to Taiwan, because I was able to meet all the different people that I encountered," she said. I have support, and I know that I am Taiwanese."

Let’s explore the significance of National Adoption Day, a powerful observance that brings hope to thousands of children in foster care across the United States.

Adopted children are likely to be allowed much closer contact with their birth families in the future as part of “seismic” changes recommended in a report published today. Some families say the changes are long overdue - but others worry they may deter people from adopting.

"At our first meeting she just looked at me and my husband with such intensity and then broke out in a smile and that was it... we all looked at each other and said 'yes this is our family'," recalls Rachel beaming.

The United States has brought hundreds of thousands of children from abroad to be adopted by American families. But along the way it left thousands of them without citizenship, through a bureaucratic loophole that the government has been aware of for decades, and hasn’t fixed.

China has announced that it is ending the practice of allowing children to be adopted overseas, bringing uncertainty to families currently going through the process.

As a mother who adopted a child, Cam Lee Small’s story resonates with me. A variety of emotions are present through the adoption journey for the parents and adopted children alike.

A woman has revealed how she tracked down her biological parents and discovered she was half black - almost 24 years after being adopted.

At an empty concrete lot in southwest China, Loulee Wilson scoops a handful of stones into a bag –- a memento from the site where she believes she was abandoned as a baby.

I have never thought to openly discuss my adoption story or its unsolicited mental health baggage. Thinking about it, no one has asked. I don’t blame them. It’s personal but also seems odd, given (almost) everyone is getting curious about exploring their mental health.

DeVries believes adoption has strengthened her family.

"An adopted kid is yours, right? So why do some adoptive parents think it's an option to 'give it back'?"

Greece's parliament on Thursday overwhelmingly adopted a bill legalising same-sex marriage and adoption in a landmark reform promoted by the conservative government despite opposition from the powerful Orthodox Church.

ST. LOUIS – A St. Louis teenager took a 23&Me test years ago when she was in elementary school and later discovered her biological sister living in Canada with their adopted parents.

𝐈𝐭’𝐬 𝐍𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐢𝐭’𝐬 𝐀𝐝𝐨𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐌𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐡!📣 Since November 9 is the Adoption Day, making November the Adoption Month! It was created for the purpose of raising awareness for adoption, encouraging adoptees to share their stories and voice out their thoughts, etc.

"Yes, adoption makes me special, it means that I am loved..."

Interior ministry says law change means equality with heterosexual families

Jimmy Lippert Thyden, who was born in Chile and adopted in the U.S., reunited with his mother for the first time in four decades

Two adopted siblings who were abandoned as babies on Staten Island and adopted into the same family in the early 2000s just looked into their ancestry, and what they found out left them floored.

[Video] An American woman who suspects she was trafficked from Taiwan as a child has come back to the country to try to find her birth parents... and a missing piece of herself.

Kuo Reese (郭慧如), an American flight paramedic who might have been the victim of a Taiwanese children trafficking ring in the early 1980s, on Thursday appealed for the public's help in finding her birth parents.

Adopted Man Finds Out Birth Mother Works In Same Building

Four years after Taiwan legalized same-sex marriage, the legislature has passed the third reading of an amendment to the law allowing same-sex couples to legally adopt children.

Keely Solimene adopted a Vietnamese girl, and then her best friend. Then she discovered that one had an identical twin. She vowed to reunite the sisters who'd been separated at birth and grew up 9,000 miles apart.

A woman met her birth mom for the first time in 34 years, and shared the emotional reunion in a dramatic video.

It took 75 years but, two sisters who were placed up for adoption at the end of World War II were finally reunited.

Parents Abandon Newborn Baby at a Store – 23 Years Later, She Gets a Letter With the Heartbreaking Reason Why ——Zoe Halbeisen’s meeting with her birth parents was more than two decades in the making.

Woman reunites with mother in Hong Kong and Macau

An infant in Kentucky became the first in the state to be dropped off safely in a “baby box” at a fire station last week, following the passage of a state law allowing anonymous surrendering of newborns at such devices.

"It was the first time I was able to see myself in my mother's eyes," said Timothy

After decades of searching, a Texas couple reunited with their 53-year-old daughter, who went missing in 1971 when she was just 22 months old. The family was able to find each other again through an at-home DNA test and the help of a genealogist.

A British football steward adopted as a baby has learned he is the sole heir to a £200 million fortune after his long-lost father turned out to be legendary American boxing commentator Bob Sheridan.