adoption

The San Diego County Sheriff’s Department announced Tuesday it arrested three people in connection to an 11-year-old girl’s murder– her adoptive mother and her two parents.

A jury has acquitted a man of neglect charges after he was accused with his ex-wife of abandoning an adopted daughter.

A heartbreaking side effect of the opioid crisis is young kids growing up without their parents – either because they died of an overdose, or their dependency makes them no longer fit for child-rearing.  When this happens, the child’s grandparents are often called upon to fill the void, even though it brings hardship – emotionally and financially. Ten years ago,…

A DNA test changed Michael Bennett’s life forever

An exotic, young cat found outside a home in Worcester is on the mend after getting surgery and an outpouring of support from the Massachusetts community. And the Bengal kitten, who was unable to walk and in when she was brought in by a good Samaritan to the MSPCA-Angell Shelter in Boston last month, didn’t just get a new...

Clayton Osteen, 24, and Victoria Pacheco, 23, died within days of each other, leaving behind a 1-month-old boy.

Nancy Womac had never held her daughter after she was taken from her at birth in 1979 until the two finally shared their first embrace this year

Fifty-two Connecticut kids are being welcomed into new homes. It is Connecticut Adoption Day, and emotional ceremonies took place all across the state Friday. “I never imagined that it would be this,” Kally Moquete said during her virtual court hearing to adopt. At the noon hearing, there were high emotions, celebrations, and a judge officially made Kally and Zander Moquete…

The fight to get a national paid family leave program in place notched a win on Friday, when House lawmakers passed a bill including the measure.

Ahead of an upcoming Netflix bio series, NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick told Ebony magazine about growing up Black to adoptive white parents – and wishing he had a mentor to answer uncomfortable questions about race that his parents couldn’t. That resonated with Melissa Guida-Richards, who was also adopted by white parents – and didn’t even know she was Latina until...

The Supreme Court unanimously overturned a lower court ruling that allowed the City of Philadelphia to ban Catholic Social Services from participating in the city’s foster care program, saying the city violated the organization’s First Amendment rights.

Sixty kittens are going for adoption in Massachusetts after being flown in from Tennessee, according to the Northeast Animal Shelter in Salem. The five dozen kittens, all eight weeks old, will be available for adoption starting Friday, after they go through a short quarantine required for animals arriving from out of state. The cats are expected to be taken home…

A Massachusetts dog has become TikTok famous for his morning grumpiness, and his owner is hoping to impart a message about adopting older dogs with those millions of views.

Soccer legends Ali Krieger and Ashlyn Harris celebrated Valentine’s Day this year by announcing to fans on Instagram they adopted a baby girl named Sloane Phillips.

For Korean-American adoptees, the search to find relatives can be complicated by the sheer number of Korean children adopted to foreign countries without records or any link to their past. “Nov. 13, 1971, I was found at a railroad station in Daegu, Korea,” said Christine Pennell of Berlin, Connecticut. Abandoned at age 2, then adopted at age 3 to a…

Beloved comedian Tiffany Haddish has taken a big step in her adoption journey

We often see adoption on our social media feeds in the most glowing light — with loving adoptive parents and happy children celebrating their new family. Less often do we focus on the trauma that adoptees experience, nor do we see the difficult journey of adoptive parents. NBCLX contributor Nathan Willis explores how the trauma of adoption is treated.

Like many parents, Katherine Heigl is trying to navigate raising three children amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

A man from Maine used Will Ferrell’s role, Buddy, from the modern holiday classic movie “Elf” as inspiration for the moment he met his biological father for the first time at Boston’s Logan International Airport.

The number one reason? “They’re just too soft,” says “Saturday Night Live’s” Melissa Villaseñor. “You don’t want soft things around you, do you? You need rough things.” She would know—her rescue Penny is very soft.