An Athens woman was sentenced to 20 months in federal prison Sunday after prosecutors said she used stolen identities to ...

Patterson’s Law” requires the state to consult physicians experienced in conditions that can mimic child abuse.

Warning: This graphic requires JavaScript. Please enable JavaScript for the best experience. One day, she thought, the three kids would come back and find her. They ...

She was 13 years old and scared of the dark when she arrived at a residential treatment center that had promised her adoptive parents it would help her ...

The UK’s Information regulator (ICO) has warned councils could face legal action over long delays, errors and missing documents for those trying to access their adoption files and care records, in an ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Adult adoptees have spoken about their 'traumatising' experiences trying to find out basic information, ITV News Social Affairs ...

Survivors of historical forced adoption practices are calling for South Australia to establish a state-based redress scheme. Tasmania recently became the second state, after Victoria, to announce such ...

From a 2017 case that I just came across, Petition to Unseal Record of Adoption of Robert (written by Surrogate Rita Mella): Petitioner contends that, if, as he hopes, he can establish, by means of ...

For decades, thousands of Korean children were sent abroad for adoption, their lives determined by private agencies operating with minimal oversight and often incomplete documentation. One of those ...

Despite renewed attention and government pledges to support adoptee rights, the National Center for the Rights of the Child (NCRC), now tasked with centralizing decades of adoption records, is facing ...

In September of 2022, at the start of her senior year at Indiana’s Purdue University, Mia Griffin was working in her bedroom, laptop propped up on her knees, when an e-mail came in from 23andMe saying ...

South Korean adoptees are petitioning the Australian government to investigate the adoption of thousands of children since 1978. A South Korean Truth and Reconciliation Commission has released interim ...