The women at the centre of the St Patrick's Guild baby mix-up scandal are seeking court approval to bring lawsuits against the former ad...

A woman who had been declared Spain’s first identified “stolen baby” has discovered her biological family actually gave her up willingly at ...

The first woman recognised by Spanish courts as one of the “stolen babies” of the Franco dictatorship has discovered her biological family t...

THIS is the touching moment half sisters met their birth mum for the first time - more than 60 years after was forced to give them up for ad...

AN Irish great-great-grandmother has been reunited with her daughter more than six decades after she was forced to give her up for adoption ...

In 1969, at the age of 19, she was gang raped and forced to give up the resulting baby for adoption — a baby boy she wanted to keep. More ...

A woman has claimed before the High Court she was coerced into having her baby daughter adopted nearly 40 years ago when she was 16 years ...

When Uwe Mai thinks about his childhood, he sees the Saale River. Bending gently, it flowed past his parents' home in Calbe just south o...

Hundreds of the at least 8,000 children that the Chilean government fear were stolen from their parents and trafficked out of the country to...

Karen Wilson Buterbaugh was 16 in the fall of 1965 when she got pregnant by her steady boyfriend. Terrified and in denial, she hid her growi...

Teenager Jackie Foley was told to sign a consent form under a fictitious name in Bessborough Mother and Baby Home. Her son was adopted and g...

Karen Wilson Buterbaugh was 16 in the fall of 1965 when she got pregnant by her steady boyfriend. Terrified and in denial, she hid her g...

Hundreds of people are expected to protest outside NSW parliament over planned changes to the state's adoption laws. The Berejiklian g...

About 100 people joined a snap protest outside New South Wales Parliament on November 7 to oppose the state Coalition government’s attempt...

Towards Transitional Justice: Recognition, Truth-telling, and Institutional Abuse in Ireland, a conference at Boston College this week, star...

A fresh investigation should be opened into Ireland’s forced adoption system in mother and baby homes, a report recommended yesterday as...

A new investigation should be opened into Ireland’s forced adoption system in mother and baby homes, a report has said. The final report o...

It had been 50 years since Sandra Jarvie was told to sign a form consenting to give up her newborn baby. Yet when she tried to talk abou...

The State has been urged to ensure family members of children who were forcibly disappeared through adoption or unidentified burials while i...

Pope Francis on Sunday denounced how Irish children were "robbed of their innocence and taken from their mothers" by Catholic-run ...