A very small, but passionate, group of parents are advocates for a type of unassisted birth known as "free birth." Here's why ...

An adopted woman from Georgia recently embarked on a mission to find her birth parents — and she discovered in the process that she has been Facebook friends with her birth father the whole time.

In this UK sample, non-birthing parents show significant childbirth-related post-traumatic stress disorder (CB-PTSD) symptoms and increased invasion in the parent-infant relationship after traumatic ...

Uncovering your origins can be one of the most profound and life-changing journeys you'll ever take. For adoptees, the search ...

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 ...

Four paragraphs printed on a single, yellowing page contain Patrice Waggoner’s only clues to the identity of her birth mother: She was 24 when she placed her newborn daughter for adoption in ...

Approximately 1 in 10 fathers suffers from postpartum depression, according to several studies on the topic. While mothers are warned about the possibility of postpartum depression and sometimes ...

Ranging from well-intentioned to egregious, these comments might surprise you...or not. Fact checked by Sarah Scott There's ...