adoption

Now-sealed records of adoptions in New Jersey completed between 1940 and 2015 become available to adoptees starting in January.

About 1,000 children are adopted each year through the New Jersey Department of Children and Families.

Beginning in 2017, adoptees in New Jersey will be able to get their original birth certificate without a court order.

A woman who as a baby just a few hours old was abandoned in the bathroom of a Pennsylvania fast-food restaurant says she has found her birth mother.

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.