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

Children get all kinds of books from their parents while growing up. But a book mine gave me when I was around 10 years old would have a significant impact on my life — even if I didn’t realize it at ...

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

An adopted woman from Georgia recently embarked on a mission to find her birth parents — and she discovered in the process that she has been Facebook friends with her birth father the whole time.

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 ...

Finding your birth parents can be a harrowing task for any child who has been adopted and Little House on the Prairie star knows that better than anyone. Melissa Gilbert recently offered some insight ...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WCTV) - In June 2023, WCTV introduced you to Cynthia Powe Douglas. We were there for her 51st birthday party when her adoptive family met her birth family for the first time.

Amber Nichols was left in a police station just 10 months old. She had lost hope of finding her family. Then, everything ...

Children get all kinds of books from their parents while growing up. But a book mine gave me when I was around 10 years old would have a significant impact on my life — even if I didn’t realize it at ...

"The moment he looked at me, he knew that I was his daughter," the woman said Toria Sheffield joined the PEOPLE editorial staff in 2024. Her work as a writer/editor has previously appeared in places ...