A campaigner says church records could reveal the hidden history of forced-adoption homes.

This weekend: the Selby Ave. Jazz Fest and South Asian feminist art in St. Paul; Twin Cities Maker Fest and Cedarfest in Minneapolis.

A young woman from a blue-collar background--aspiring and driven--spent over twenty years quietly wondering if the family who raised her was truly hers. At thirty-two, she confirmed the unthinkable: she is the biological daughter of another, entirely unknown family. Her search unfolds like a page-turning mystery, leading to an astonishing discovery--her biological grandfather was a U.S. diplomat and author, photographed in the Oval Office with President Kennedy, greeting Charles Lindbergh on the tarmac, and meeting with Rosa Parks and international leaders.

A judge on Friday ordered former Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin (R) to serve 60 days in jail without bond after he was arrested on an outstanding warrant in a child support case involving his estranged w…

Marion McMillan was one of about 250,000 women who were forced to have their babies adopted between 1949 and 1976.

Meena Geltink and Minal Tijssen were adopted from India by families in the Netherlands and grew up less than 100 miles apart.

What if starting a family was thought of not as a privilege, but as a fundamental right?

The Minimalist is the second novel by Chinese adoptee Kailee Pedersen. Her first, Sacrificial Animals, was named a Best Horror Book of 2024 by the New York Times, and her new book is billed as a “gruesome and unsettling psychological drama.”

The joy, disbelief and shock of discovering I had a brother the same age as me came with a million questions. How were we separated and why?

Boston Medical Center no longer automatically reports newborn babies who test positive for opioids to child welfare authorities. The hospital found that when they evaluated each family's situation…

A family experienced what felt like a records runaround when they tried to get certified copies of their birth certificates.