Collectors have many reasons for buying the dolls, such as grieving after pregnancy loss or enjoying adult play, experts say "Culture is incredibly uncomfortable with grief and sadness and pain," Dr.

Not long after Christmas in 1897, little Verna Pitts of Roanoke, Ala., accidentally broke the beautiful China doll she’d received as a gift. Her heart shattered along with the doll. Verna went to her ...

"You see a doll, I see a baby that I never got to hold,” a woman said after receiving criticism for having a reborn doll Lifelike dolls, known as reborn dolls, have been popular for two decades and ...