Adoptive parents would be allowed to provide more financial support to birth mothers under a popular proposal in New York — where critics say it’s easier to get an abortion than to adopt a baby. In ...

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Birth parents, both mothers and fathers, are a key piece of the adoption puzzle. The vast majority make the difficult decision to place their child for adoption out of what they perceived to be the ...

(We) adopted our child when she was about one week old. Her birth mother arrived at the hospital on drugs and without a plan.

The topic of adoption has long been one-sided, dominated by well-meaning adoptive parents and the for-profit agencies that place kids into homes. That means the people who are supposed to benefit most ...

Alicia Mae Holloway told Newsweek that there is one "crazy" detail in her story that still astonishes her to this day.

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The 'Bachelor' alum told PEOPLE exclusively about the shocking moment she learned her birth family believed she had died ...