All news on the topic: Adoption

Sarah Livingstone, 55, from Camden, began fostering after her own children had grown up and has spoken to the Mirror about the joys and struggles it brings, as well as how it needs to change

Russian weight loss influencer Marina Balmasheva, 37, married Vladimir Shavyrin, now 23, after first being married to his dad Alexey Shavyrin, 47, who claims the couple "were not shy" about sleeping together while he was in the house

Aisylu Chizhevskaya Mingalim, 53, and her adopted son Daniel Chizhevsky, 22, married earlier this month having met when he was just 13 and living in an orphanage

Child welfare experts were shocked when Aisylu Chizhevskaya Mingalim, 53, from Russia, married her 22-year-old adopted son Daniel Chizhevsky - who she'd raised since he was 14

Aiesha Myricks, 36, was placed into foster care as a baby and was quickly adopted by her foster family - but she became curious about her background and identity after falling pregnant

Four family members have been found guilty in a plot involving terrorism, exorcisms and kidnapping that resulted in a three-year-old boy being found dead in the underground tunnels at a compound they built

An expert has warned about the dangers children face from their own parents when they are part of the family vlogger subgenre with pressures to perform and intimate information and images being uploaded to be accessed by anyone, with any intent

Trista Fullerton, 36, allegedly kidnapped her eight children from their foster homes in Arkansas last weekend and drove through multiple state lines before being reported by a concerned bystander

The baby girl, who was born in India, arrived after her mother reported terrible pain before she went into labour and medics are unclear what had happened

The operation – the boy’s 28th – should encourage his left leg to grow to the same size as the right one, stabilising his hip and enabling him to walk unaided on his prosthetics

A Florida teenager was adopted just in time before his 18th birthday, by two highly experience adoptive parents. “I was sweating bad. My heart was beating,” Roman Nehemiah said of the moment the adoption was finalised

Catia Teixeira, 35, and Lawrence Hagland, 31, have shared how a random moment in a cafe was their sign to have a baby - we celebrate their joy as part of National Adoption Week

Stephen Graham, who stars in Netflix's new thrilling police drama Bodies, has formed some close bonds with his co-stars over the years and has become known as one of the kindest actors in TV

Emma Barker was on honeymoon in Thailand when she discovered the sign, but kept the news a secret from her new husband before waiting weeks to see a GP

Phil Frampton spent his childhood in care but during that time, he faced prejudice and racism. After years of fights, he convinced Barnados to show him documents that revealed his past

A 13-year-old boy was told to leave a privately-run children’s home for being disruptive and was sent 198 miles away from his family to live in a static caravan park

Ariel has had more than 200 enquiries from people interested in adopting her

After discovering her then-boyfriend had undergone chemotherapy she insisted on having his semen analysed to ensure he could still have children, admitting that she would be unhappy without them

Payton Shires was charged by Columbus Police with having unlawful sexual conduct with a minor after the boy's mother began suspecting her of 'predatory behaviour' when she spotted phone text messages

Foster carers Jane and Christopher Cook have taken in more than 30 children over the course of their fostering journey - and say they couldn't imagine life without the kids around

Stephen Graham is one of the country's finest actors and will be appearing on tonight's Graham Norton show - but he's also an incredibly kind man

Between 1955 and 1995, more than 70,000 West African children were privately fostered by White Britons, and many of them have lived with the long-lasting impact

She has divided opinions

Ben and Kate Griffiths, from Mold, North Wales, reveal how their adoption mission saved little Winnie-Rose from a grim life

Jimmy Lippert Thyden was emotionally reunited with his birth mother in Chile, with help from the nonprofit Nos Buscamos and his own determined quest after being separated for 42 years