A trove of 1.1 million records left accessible on the open web shows how much sensitive information can be created—and made ...

C hina’s one-child policy was not only cruel; it was a failure. Decades of shackling women to beds and forcing them to ...

Mamma Francesca, as Campitelli later began to call her after they were reunited, was one of tens of thousands of Italian unwed mothers forced to give their children up for adoption between 1951 ...

For decades, unwed mothers in Italy were pressured to give up children born out of wedlock. Thousands were sent to America. Now some families are reuniting and looking for answers.

She describes pressure to process children for adoption at greater speeds: “Children came in. We would work on sending them away, while more were coming in. All I heard was, ‘Work faster ...

Judge previously ruled that four of her offspring should be put up for adoption amid domestic violence concerns ...