"The moment he looked at me, he knew that I was his daughter," the woman said Toria Sheffield joined the PEOPLE editorial staff in 2024. Her work as a writer/editor has previously appeared in places ...

Birth parents, both mothers and fathers, are a key piece of the adoption puzzle. The vast majority make the difficult decision to place their child for adoption out of what they perceived to be the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Finding your birth parents can be a harrowing task for any child who has been adopted and Little House on the Prairie star knows ...

When a woman chooses to meet her birth parents alone, her adoptive mom feels blindsided Ashley Vega is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2024. Her work has previously ...

It may be the first time Snooki blacked out from something other than dirty martinis. “Jersey Shore” star Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi was six months old when she was adopted — and at 36, she finally heard ...

When I saw her across the café, my knees almost gave way. She was older, and her hair was grey, but those unmistakable eyes mirrored mine. The man beside her grabbed her hand so tightly, and when he ...

Birth mothers who created adoption plans for their children with Adoptions From the Heart say they were embraced by the agency and given comfort, support, and acceptance through the emotional process.

When Ali Marie Watson conceived a child in 2012, she sought to place her baby in adoption. The Paduca, Kentucky, native studied 30 profiles of adoptive couples sent to her by her adoption agency. The ...

Children get all kinds of books from their parents while growing up. But a book mine gave me when I was around 10 years old would have a significant impact on my life — even if I didn’t realize it at ...