New York has become the 10th state to allow adopted adults unrestricted access to their original birth certificates, a step that will help some investigate their family histories. A new law effective ...

Laken Snelling walks out during her preliminary hearing on Friday, Sept. 26, 2025, at Fayette County District Court in Lexington, Ky. Source: Kentucky Kernel Staff. WARNING: This story contains ...

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

Shawna Hodgson was adopted as an infant in the seventies and, she says, “raised in a great family” in Houston. But despite her happy childhood, she always had an underlying need to know more about her ...

A video circulating on social media purports to demonstrate there are no birth records for the 19 children who died in the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School, painting this as evidence that the ...

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 ...

MINNEAPOLIS — A busy 2023 legislative session has ushered in 77 new Minnesota laws this, but it will take nearly a year before one landmark law change impacts adoptees and their birth parents. On July ...