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Birth parents, both mothers and fathers, are a key piece of the adoption puzzle. The vast majority make the difficult decision to place their child for adoption out of what they perceived to be the ...

When a woman chooses to meet her birth parents alone, her adoptive mom feels blindsided Ashley Vega is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2024. Her work has previously ...

"The moment he looked at me, he knew that I was his daughter," the woman said Toria Sheffield joined the PEOPLE editorial staff in 2024. Her work as a writer/editor has previously appeared in places ...