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Everything shifted after Raeyn Bailey Perri’s birth — at least it did in the lives of the adults who love her. Richard Perri knew his life would change the moment he saw Nicole Bailey, his wife, in ...

When I was born, my Korean parents, immigrants to the United States, relinquished me for adoption. At the age of two and a half months, I was placed with a white family who lived in a small town in ...

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 ...

Pennsylvania residents Caitlin Trone and Christian Mayer were both adopted, but Trone's adoption was open and Mayer's was not. Mayer's closed adoption created a lot of guilt and shame he had to ...

NEW YORK -- The secrecy that long shrouded adoption has given way to openness, and only about 5 percent of infant adoptions in the U.S. now take place without some ongoing relationship between birth ...

As her baby grew inside her, Tasha Tomczak worried and wondered what she should do. The Duluth woman was in her mid-20s and already had a 2-year-old daughter. The thought of being a single mother to ...

Clark and Cheryl Dietz of Fargo have been reminded twice in their lives that good things come in small packages. They adopted their first child, Gracie, in 1999, after deciding to start a family and a ...