More and more Chinese adoptees in the US are trying to reunite with their birth parents. For Youxue, it took more than a ...
Adoptive parents would be allowed to provide more financial support to birth mothers under a popular proposal in New York — ...
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 ...
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 ...
An adopted woman was reunited with her birth mother in Korea after spending almost 38 years apart – and discovered […] ...
Back in 2000, Oregon and Alabama acted to ensure people who had been adopted could get access to their original birth certificates. Advocates of that goal, calling it an overdue recognition of basic ...
Missouri-born adoptees may be able to get a copy of their original birth certificate starting a year from now if Gov. Jay Nixon approves a proposed new law legislators passed last week. Rep. Don ...
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 ...