Florida resident Shannon Nibarger, who gave a child up for adoption through Catholic social services in Wyoming in 1993, says her daughter would have to go before a judge there and get a court order ...

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 ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. – Friday was “Opening Day” for adoptees born in Ohio: thousands of adoption records sealed for 51 years are now accessible. Ohio law was changed in 2013 naming March 20, 2015 as ...

(CN) - A 51-year-old alcoholic with a "hole in her soul" cannot find out who her birth parents are to help soothe her anxiety, depression and substance abuse, the Iowa Supreme Court ruled. When a ...

I add my voice to those of letter writers Joyce Bahr and Lorraine Dusky. Adoption records need to be opened to both the birth parent and the adult adoptee. Ms. Dusky is correct. It is long past time ...

Oregon mother says she would have never found her son if not for adoption records law change Karen Gjerning talks about reuniting with her son four decades after she gave him up for adoption thanks 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 new bill signed into law Friday will open all adoption records in Indiana finalized before Jan. 1, 1994. The records will open starting July 1, 2018, unless the birth parent files a contact ...

Teresa Stinson's birth mother gave her up for adoption 47 years ago. — -- Teresa Stinson said she had spent her whole life wondering who her birth mother was and why she was given up for adoption ...

PITTSBURGH (NewsRadio 1020 KDKA) -- Since 1985, Pennsylvania has closed adoption records to adoptees, but a a new bill introduced by State Representative Kerry A. Benninghoff would allow adoptees to ...