Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Growing up, holidays usually meant just dinner for the three of us: my mom, dad and me. I would sit dutifully at the table for the ...

At the age of 5, gunshots and sirens were my lullaby. I was exposed to gangs, prostitution, drugs, and abuse before most kids learn their ABCs. My earliest memories are walking to the bus stop for ...

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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 ...

I would rather jump through a glass window than talk to literally anyone about reproductive politics. Church friend from childhood? Glass window. Tipsy coworker at happy hour? Glass window. Given the ...

Abandoned at a few days old in a public location, I spent much of my first year in an orphanage and found a forever family from a small town in Canada at nine months old. Adoption changed my life in ...

Editor’s Note: Tarikuwa Lemma, 19, was “adopted” from Ethiopia seven years ago by a U.S. family along with her two younger sisters after being deceived that they were headed to America on a study trip ...