Includes intended and unintended home births; Chart: Jacque Schrag/Axios The rate of home births in the U.S. keeps climbing years after the pandemic surge. Why it matters: The shift reflects a growing ...

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 ...

Patrice Waggoner, who was adopted soon after she was born in D.C. in 1967, began searching for her birth parents after battling depression and homelessness. Four paragraphs printed on a single, ...

In the search for her biological family, one Upstate woman has created a space for others who were adopted to do the same.