Natural fathers in Germany should find it easier to contest the legal paternity of another man for their child after the Bundestag or parliament passed a law implementing a ruling by the Federal ...

As sad as it is, sometimes parents aren’t there for their kids, and that can be very painful. What would you do if you were told that your dad abandoned you before you were born and refused to have ...

SEAFORD, Va. — This Father’s Day was one to remember for a Virginia woman who recently met her biological dad thanks to a 23andMe DNA kit. She had been searching for him for several years. Adopted at ...

My parents’ marriage ended explosively when I was 14. Sad, you might think, but not so unusual. Except that they had adopted me and my experience became so at odds with the conventional adoption ...

Melissa Gilbert was a presence in her father’s life longer than she knew. The actress, 61, opened up about her journey of finding her birth parents on the July 8 episode of Patrick Labyorteaux’s ...

Making a situation official through a stepparent adoption is often the best possible move, and it can mean a lot to a kid. But it’s not ALWAYS the way to go, and things can get pretty charged. Like in ...