The decision to seek out biological parents or children can be tense, difficult and at times impossible. How a person goes about finding and reconnecting with their biological family depends on who ...

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. Once a child is adopted from foster care, it’s as if they are reborn in the eyes of many child welfare agencies. In required data ...

NEW YORK — 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 parents? In ...

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) – A state law that went into effect just this summer is making it possible for people to access thousands of adoption records for the very first time. The information in those ...

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Adoptees born between 1941 and 1994 may soon be able to access their birth records under a bill passed by the Indiana House. The bill passed in a 72-24 vote Monday and now heads to ...

Old adoption records housed at a state agency in St. Paul soon could become a more important resource for people researching their family histories. Minnesota is making plans to digitize about 5 ...

A state law that went into effect just this summer is making it possible for people to access thousands of adoption records for the very first time. The information in those records means siblings ...