Sharing the Love filmmaker shares her own experiences of being brought up by family.

Father reunites with daughter after spending decades fighting for the right to see her.

Second girl, born under one-child policy, meant distraught parents had to give her up.

Episode Three of Chasing Ghosts examines the troubled life of Amber-Lee's mother.

Would-be parents left in limbo as number of children for adoption drops to all time low.

COMMENT: I know this because it played a large part in destroying my mother's life.

Maggie gave birth to her daughter in 1964 in Otahuhu - and didn't see her for 18 years.

The inner strength of a little girl starved, beaten and imprisoned in a tiny urine-soaked closet amazed her rescuers.

The sister of the San Bernardino shooter has spent months trying to adopt her niece, but so far is only allowed to see her in six-hour regular visits.

Frustrated foster parents have to get permission every time their foster child needs major medical treatment, changes schools or the family move.

In my almost 40 years, I've only recently been able to talk about adoption honestly and openly. And it is incredibly difficult.

A woman who adopted a child has won the right to paid parental leave, after being told by the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment that she wasn't eligible.

An Auckland man who went to the other end of the earth to find his biological parents in Russia has chanced upon another person from the same orphanage living in New Zealand.

A young Cambodian girl adopted by a Kiwi couple has qualified for New Zealand citizenship after a five-year battle.

A bill which would allow a young New Zealander to have the names of both of her mothers on her birth certificate has passed its first hurdle in Parliament tonight.

Unmarried Kiwis are no longer able to adopt Russian children because New Zealand has legalised gay marriage.

A Wairarapa school will be closed for its first day of term today so its pupils can attend the funeral of a 10-year-old schoolmate killed in a quad bike crash.

A Green MP says his bill to reform adoption law is much broader than gay adoption and will provide a much needed overhaul, including open adoptions.

A Wairarapa couple have been sent to prison for more than a year and a half after being found guilty of ill-treating and neglecting their adopted daughter.