When my young friend Sebastian heard he had lost his biological brother to suicide—a brother he had never known—his life was temporarily upended. Soon after, we spoke about the many questions and ...

Melissa "Missy" Mason's phone pinged on Jan. 29, 2024, with a surprising text message from the adoption agency coordinator who had placed a baby boy with her and her husband in 2022. She was shocked ...

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 ...