Adopted children should have face-to-face contact with their birth parents, a major report has recommended. The report, commissioned by Britain’s most senior family court judge, said the system where ...

Born in New Orleans and adopted at eight weeks, Elise Lewis found her birth parents in 1996 when she was 28. But something important was missing: her birth certificate, with all the details it ...

California has long been a leader in civil rights, but there is one glaring exception: adult adoptees in our state are still denied the right to obtain their own original birth certificates. This ...

Apr. 16—Haywood County commissioners have passed a resolution supporting a N.C. Senate bill that would make it easier for people who were adopted to get certified copies of their adoptive birth ...

Adoptive parents would be allowed to provide more financial support to birth mothers under a popular proposal in New York — ...

SB 381 would allow adult adoptees in California unrestricted access to original birth certificates, restoring equality, identity rights and transparency. a360 For decades, California law has required ...

NEW YORK (AP) -- It's among the most divisive questions in the realm of adoption: Should adult adoptees have access to their birth records, and thus be able to learn the identity of their birth ...