My parents hid my adoption. But somehow, the truth brought us closer

BEING YOU is a journal for birthmothers, who need help navigating their open adoption relationship.

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.

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