adoption

Transitioning out of his Marine Corps service, Wesley Swainston has been exercising the dogs at a shelter, combining two of his passions: training dogs and running. But the impact of ...

It's so beautiful! Credit: Craig DeWit

This birthmother put the needs of her child above the wants of her heart.

When retired carpenter David Fine was told he had cancer, his first priority was to make sure his ...

The mandate could put foster parents with biological children in danger of being labeled abusive and lead to ...

A Florida teen at risk of aging out of the foster system has been adopted by his forever ...

Libby arrived at the shelter lugging a volleyball-sized lump on her right shoulder. The 5-year-old pit bull drew ...

A 23-year-old woman has adopted her 11-year-old sister after their mother died; the girl's father, too, is struggling ...

The family of Michael Oher, the retired NFL star whose adoption out of poverty was the inspiration behind ...

What does it take to turn an act of evil into an act of love? A college junior who ...

With the Easter holidays fast approaching, especially in the year of the rabbit, many might consider bringing an ...

College sweethearts Tomas and Kirstin Czernek, who live in central Florida, began thinking about starting a family through ...

A South Carolina woman who sought validation from men and alcohol to escape the pain of an abusive ...

An Indiana police officer and his wife, who struggled for years to conceive, adopted their second daughter: a ...

After getting pregnant unexpectedly, two college students chose open adoption for their unborn baby. Now years later, they ...

Privately run adoption agencies can refuse to adopt children out to same-sex couples, a panel of federal judges ...

A college student who found an abandoned baby in a dumpster in Haiti took the infant into his ...

This incredible video shows how one dog waited for help for at least six hours after his furry ...

Hannah Jennings’s birth parents were young high schoolers when they had her, back in 1999. At a tender ...

Livestream footage from a bald eagle’s nest-cam captured the extraordinary moment when a family of bald eagles adopted ...

A Vietnamese baby born with a large facial tumor, who was given up for adoption, has reunited with ...

For an 11-year-old boy from Cincinnati who was officially adopted by his stepdad into their forever family, that ...

A Shanxi lady in her 70s has dedicated 46 years of her life to caring for abandoned children. Recently, ...

A Pennsylvania woman who got pregnant at the age of 19 was at the peak of depression and ...

An English woman who exchanged grotesque messages with her husband has been jailed for life for murdering a ...

With Mother’s Day in view, I'm thinking about mothers and what distinguishes them from other women. While no ...

A couple in Minnesota adopted six siblings after they had been taken into Child Protective Services (CPS) several ...