These days, 95% of adoptions are "open," meaning birth parents, or the birth mother, have some degree of involvement with the ...

I have experienced firsthand the courage of two birth mothers who chose my husband and me to raise their babies. We met these pregnant women, as well as the birth fathers and birth grandparents, of ...

Chantel Dauster and her 6-year-old daughter, Ivy Joy, see the girl's birth mom at least once a year Zoey Lyttle is a Society & Culture Writer-Reporter at PEOPLE. She covers influencers and viral, ...

Holden's debut is an insightful, heartfelt exploration of open adoption, an evolving arrangement that has been growing in popularity over the last 20 years. Her endorsement is personal; she has two ...

Author Nicole Chung, shown here in a provided photo, has documented her experience growing up as a Korean American adoptee in a white family in Southern Oregon in her two memoirs, “All You Can Ever ...

April 30 -- Open adoptions, as opposed to traditional adoptions, allow birth parents to stay involved in their children's lives even after the adoption has been finalized. Twenty years ago, 1 percent ...

If the birth mother is in our lives, my child will be confused as to who their "real" parents are. The adoptive parent takes on the role of mom or dad from the very beginning. Because the birth mother ...

Although this is the first time she has ever been in this room, there are signs of her everywhere. It’s in the family crest on the wall — the one her ancestors brought from Mexico more than 100 years ...

I WANTED my son to become the kind of person who appreciates the beauty of the world around him, so I smiled when, at 6, he asked to borrow my camera in case he saw “something beautiful.” We were ...