Here is my advice to any parent or child in an adopted family - from my lifelong experience as an adoptee ...

While adoption is wonderful in many ways, it comes with its own set of unique challenges. Sometimes, those challenges come from other people making incorrect assumptions. Lisa Schieff, 30, was adopted ...

On an Internet forum where parents sought takers for adopted children they no longer wanted, a teenager from Haiti was offered more frequently than any other girl. Starting at age 14, Nita Dittenber ...

Chances are you know someone whose life has been touched by adoption. Each year, about 135,000 children are adopted by families in the U.S. Here are 12 people who grew up to become famous figures ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. There are many ways to form a family, and there's no better time to celebrate that than November’s National Adoption Month. From ...

Not every animal has a loving home. Shelters and rescues try to do everything they can to save as many little hearts as they can, but the rest is in the hands of people who are willing to adopt. Every ...

As their mom Marianne cut up celery and opened a tub of hummus, the three Massi boys alternately darted and drifted through the kitchen. In between snacking, one took the two family dogs into the ...

Two summers ago, when Nathan Tasker was 13, his mom drove him from Melrose, Mass., to Maine, where he would attend his first session at a transgender camp. Nathan remembers feeling happy for the first ...

There are many ways to form a family, and there's no better time to celebrate that than November’s National Adoption Month. From Olympic athletes to Oscar-winning actors to Here are 17 adopted ...