About Adoption:
Articles and Resources
Carrie Craft is the editor of this special site all about adoption. From Carrie:
"I am blessed to have many different insights into this topic. I am an adoptive
parent as well as a foster parent. I also have the unique insight of the birth
family as I discovered several years ago, after the death of my mother, that she
had a child before me and had given her up for adoption. I have met my sister
and have a relationship with her. This has given me another link to my deceased
mother as well as given my newly found sister a since of history."
ADA: What
Adoption Agencies Need to Know
Requirements of the Americans with Disabilities Act and implications for
adoption.
Adoptees Free Search
Site includes forums, professional advice and a search function.
Adoptees.org
Site for adoptees. Includes search registry.
Adoption
Assessment or Home Study
This site provides details on home studies/assessments covered in five
informational pages. You are able to download a copy of the entire contents of
these pages that you can print out at home.
Adoption Family Center
Resource for GLBT adoption.
Adoption Institute
The Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute, founded in 1996, is a national
not-for-profit organization devoted to improving adoption policy and practice.
The Adoption Institute is a reliable, unbiased and respected voice for ethical
adoption practices that respect all people touched by adoption.
Adoption Council of Canada
The umbrella organization for adoption in Canada. Based in Ottawa, the ACC
raises public awareness of adoption, promotes placement of waiting children and
stresses the importance of post-adoption services.
Adoption.org
A gateway to adoption information for birth parents and adoptive parents.
Adoption Forums
Case workers and social workers message board.
Adoption
History Project
Social work transformed help into a professional activity. Because social
workers have been the rank and file workers in the world of adoption, endowing
them with authority and expertise was a prerequisite for the professionalization
of adoption. Making sure that family-formation would be overseen by
professionals was an important part of making adoption modern.
Adoption Professionals
Whether you are a social worker, program manager, family therapist, attorney, or
anyone who comes into contact with adopted persons and adoptive families, you
need reliable and comprehensive information to help you become competent about
adoption issues. NAIC offers resources to assist.
Adoption
Social Work: A History
Social work transformed help into a professional activity. Because social
workers have been the rank and file workers in the world of adoption, endowing
them with authority and expertise was a prerequisite for the professionalization
of adoption. Making sure that family-formation would be overseen by
professionals was an important part of making adoption modern.
Adoption State by State
A great list of official state sites by the About Adoption editor. Search under
your state and learn all about the laws and procedures for adoption.
Adoption
Studies and Adoption Science
During the twentieth century, child adoption was reimagined in scientific terms,
as a social experiment and human laboratory that could produce knowledge as well
as help children. Researchers were persuaded that adoption could answer basic
scientific questions about development, nature and nurture, and family norms.
Professionals and parents were persuaded that scientific research would improve
family-making by minimizing risks and maximizing safety. Adoption has been the
subject of four major types of empirical research:
field studies,
outcome
studies,
nature-nurture studies, and
psychopathology studies. Chronological lists of studies can be found by
clicking on the preceding links. Descriptions of particular studies, and
excerpts from them, can be found by using the links in the table on this site.
American Academy of Adoption
Attorneys
The American Academy of Adoption Attorneys is a national association of
attorneys who practice, or have otherwise distinguished themselves, in the field
of adoption law. The Academy’s work includes promoting the reform of adoption
laws and disseminating information on ethical adoption practices. The Academy
publishes a newsletter, holds annual meetings, and hosts educational seminars.
These attorneys refer parents for counseling services.
American Association of Open Adoption
Agencies
Lists of member agencies, adoption checklists and extensive resource
information.
Bibliography of
Adoption Books
From the University of Michigan
Birthmother Site
Adoption.com’s FREE online support group and interactive resource center
exclusively for women and men considering adoption for their unborn child, as
well as women and men who have placed their child for adoption.
Children Awaiting Parents
Adoption for children with special needs.
Child Welfare League of America
The United States' oldest membership based child welfare organization. You will
find research data, publications and information on child welfare.
Council on
Accreditation
The Council on Accreditation partners with human service organizations worldwide
to improve service delivery outcomes by developing, applying, and promoting
accreditation standards.
Home Study Process
This process has three purposes: to educate and prepare the adoptive family for
adoption, to gather information about the prospective parents that will help a
social worker match the family with a child whose needs they can meet, and to
evaluate the fitness of the adoptive family.
Gay and Lesbian Parenting
2moms2dads.com is your one-stop resource for gay and lesbian parents or gays
and lesbians interested in becoming parents -- through adoption, surrogacy, in
vitro, egg donors, sperm donors, etc. We provide links to articles and resources
specifically for gay and lesbian parents and potential parents. If you're
thinking about becoming a parent, check out their invaluable resources.
International
Adoptions
From the US Citizenship and Immigration Services. A great fact page on how to
bring a foreign orphan to the United States.
NASW
Statement on the Uniform Adoption Act
National Adoption Information
Clearinghouse
From the US Administration on Children and Families, a new site covering
resources and information on all aspects of adoption.
National
Association of Black Social Workers
Position statement on trans-racial adoption.
National Center for Adoption
Law & Policy at Capital University Law School (NCALP) -
The LawSite is a free, online service for both
adoptive families and professionals. It is also the nation’s only comprehensive
searchable site for statutes, regulations, key cases and leading articles about
adoption and child welfare law from all 50 states, all available at no charge to
the user.
New Zealand Foster
Care Network
From Allysa Carberry: This site is here to help you with your important journey
as a Foster Parent. It will not have all the answers, but hopefully will help
you to know that, as a Caregiver you are not alone in this journey. Caregiving
is a challenging, but very rewarding job, and we need as much support as
possible.This web site is New Zealand based. Although in saying this, some of
the links may be from other countries. On searching the NET, I have found that
it doesn’t matter where in the world you are ‘Fostering’ – we all seem to have
the same issues.
North American Council On
Adoptable Children
Organization advocating for the right of children to have permanent, nurturing
and culturally sensitive families. Advocates for hard to place children.
North American Council On Adoptable
Children
Organization advocating for the right of children to have permanent, nurturing
and culturally sensitive families. Advocates for hard to place children.
Readings in
Adoption
Because a great deal has been written recently about adoption by legal scholars,
policy analysts, social scientists, adoptees, birth parents, and adoptive
parents, this site has listed sources that are especially useful in thinking
about adoption historically that may not appear in many excellent bibliographies
emphasizing only the recent past.
Safe Baby
(Abandoned Baby or Safe Haven) Law
Choose your state on the map and the Safe Baby law for that particular state
will be explained and information given.
Should I be a Foster Parent?
From About Adoption, points to consider when thinking through whether or not to
be a foster parent.
Social Workers Dilemma: Placement with Gay/Lesbian Family
The debate goes on and will continue as long as there are conflicting views
about homosexuality. Considering these different views, should social workers
place children with gay men or lesbians?
Tapestry Books
The adoption book store. Tapestry books has all the latest books for adoptive
families, adoption professionals and birth families. Professionals will want to
pass out their catalog.
The Adoption School
A very creative site set up like a college campus. Adoption101.com is dedicated
to promoting safe, ethical and affordable adoptions through education. Their
seminars include excerpts from the books of the nation’s leading adoption
authors.
Wisconsin
Adoptions
Adoption information and the adoption process.
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