In 1986, a newborn wrapped in a red sweater was found abandoned in the bathroom of a fast-food restaurant in Pennsylvania. Nearly three decades later, she's all grown up and looking for her biological mother -- and tens of thousands of people are trying to help.
Private adoption agencies, the courts, and the state would have to maintain a child's religious upbringing when placing a child with a guardian, into foster care, or into an adoptive home under a bill approved by an Assembly panel. The legislation is sponsored by Assembly Democrats Gary Schaer, Pamela Lampitt and Upendra Chivukula.
Governor Chris Christie shows a personal side of himself during a recent town hall, talking about a bill that would give adoptees' access to their birth parents' identities.
A new chapter begins in the lives of many children who were adopted during a program held in Monmouth County’s Court House in celebration of National Adoption Day.