(THE CONVERSATION) I was adopted in Colorado in the late 1960s. At the age of 20, I was stricken with a serious illness that necessitated access to my medical history, including my birth family’s ...

BOSTON (WWLP) – The Massachusetts State Senate passed legislation to give all adoptees the ability to retrieve their original birth certificates on Friday. As of now, adoptees born between July 17, ...

A lot of people are needlessly terrified when they are told that they need their “original birth certificate.” Of course, most of us don’t have it, because our parents had it, and now we don’t know ...

BATON ROUGE, La. — Living almost seven decades without any information about her birth, Rebecca Browning never thought she would learn more about where she came from. Now, thanks to a bill passed ...

I was adopted in Colorado in the late 1960s. At the age of 20, I was stricken with a serious illness that necessitated access to my medical history, including my birth family’s history. To my distress ...

I was adopted in Colorado in the late 1960s. At the age of 20, I was stricken with a serious illness that necessitated access to my medical history including my birth family’s history. To my distress, ...