SALT LAKE CITY — A bill allowing adult adoptees to access their original birth certificate passed through the Utah Legislature Friday with a final vote in the House. HB129, sponsored by Rep. Raymond ...

RALEIGH, North Carolina (WTVD) -- Hundreds of hopeful adoptive parents are still fighting to get back their personal information more than a month after Independent Adoption Center abruptly closed its ...

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) — Indiana residents who were adopted as children are waiting longer than expected to get access to previously closed adoption records. WFIU-FM reports that the Indiana State ...

The commercial applications of DNA testing that debuted in the early 2000s have developed to uncover lineage secrets and provide important medical information that can be extremely beneficial for ...

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 ...