Adoption and Birth Parent Internet Resources
A page dedicated to providing information to adoptive parents and birth parents
Internet Resources and Information
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Adoption Resources
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Adoptee Resources (Some of the above also contain adoptee resources)
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Legal Resources (Some of the above also contain legal resources)
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Reviews
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Adopt: Assistance, Information, Support
Review: Terrific resource for families or anyone else interested in the adoption process contains hundreds of pointers that address virtually any issues that may arise.
http://www.adopting.org/ar.html
Adoption Resources
Review: Whether you're pondering adoption, working with an agency or trying to copy with parental demands, these data-dense pages will help you along with practical, proven advice. No mere collection of external links, it posts content on subjects from infertility problems to foreign services, children's questions and adoption law. Superlative stuff.
http://www.adopting.org/
Adoption Search
Review: This is a page for the adopted. It is a personal story of one person's search for her biological parents, why she felt this was important and the result. There is considerable how-to info.
http://www.best.com/~savage/adoptee.html
AdoptioNetwork Home Page
Review: The much-praised site for this U.S. adoption network leads to information about every side of adoption. Find resources for birth parents, adoptees, and adoptive parents as well as social scientists and medical personnel. Some links help adoptees find their birth parents, others lead to foreign adoption organizations.
http://www.adoption.org/
alt.adoption: SUPPORT
Review: The postings here are from people who have been involved in adoption, either as the birth parent, adoptive parent or child. It's a place for all sides to find support, insight and understanding.
news:alt.adoption
National Finders Adoption Registry
Review: National Finders was founded by an adoptee who successfully located both birth parents. Now, perhaps, it's your turn. With a $40 one-time registration fee and a simple questionaire, parents or adoptees can become part of the Registry's database. No promises. If they find a match, they'll call you.
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/adoptionregistry
The Adoptee's Right to Know
Review: If you are an adopted child, this site points to much interesting material, especially registries matching persons who desire contact with their next of kin-by-birth.
http://www.alt.net/~waltj/shea/adopt.html
Adoptees Mailing List
Review: This UC San Diego site serves as something of a clearing house for adoptees seeking their birth parents. The status of adoptee rights legislation is followed closely here as well. And there are links to the surprisingly large number of Web sites devoted to this issue or some aspect of it.
http://psy.ucsd.edu/~jhartung/adoptees.html
Adoption Online Connection(r)
Review: Well, now one can honestly say you can find everything on the Web -- even children. This Columbia, Maryland service matches prospective adoptive families with birth parents. Its page describes the process in thorough detail.
http://www.adoptiononline.com/
AdoptioNetwork
Review: Whether you're a birthmother, adoptee or adoptive parent, these pages hold essential information for public and private support. Find the names, addresses and telephone numbers of American and international adoption groups, addressing everything from medical to legal issues. A great place to start your research.
http://www.infi.net/adopt
Ellen and Mark's Adoption Search
Review: The Massachusetts couple want to adopt a baby and are letting the world know it right here. This is certainly one of the more novel uses of the Internet, and a natural one once you think about it.
http://www.channel1.com/users/adoption
Families With Children From China
Review: Many U.S. parents have responded to domestic adoption difficulties by adopting children from China. Here is a resource for those folks and people who wish to adopt from China. Find informative articles, contacts, and many adoption links.
http://www.catalog.com/cgibin/var/fwcfc/welcome.html
Federal Travel's Adoption Travel Service
Review: This Lighthouse Point, Florida, firm owned by adoptive parents is dedicated to bringing adoptive families together through their full-service travel arrangements. Here too are adoption FAQs, testimonials from satisfied customers and links to a bunch of country sites.
http://www.adoption.com/federal
Foster Parent Page
Review: If this Washington state page doesn't answer your questions about foster care, it will lead you to others that should. All aspects are covered, including legal guidelines, children with special needs, children's issues, and adoption.
http://worldaccess.com/FPHP
Hope and Homes for Children
Review: This English charity, founded by a British colonel in the U.N. Protective Force in Croatia and his wife, is dedicated to finding homes for kids orphaned by war. Hope and Homes is currently working on a children's center in Sarajevo. Find out more about these good folks here, and what you might do to help.
http://www.ducksoup.net/hope
Independent Adoption Center
Review: Adopting a child can be lonely and tough. This site links to all sorts of resources and info while promoting its own national services: help on adopting or placing a child, adoption loan information etc.
http://www.adoptionhelp.org/nfediac
Michigan Adoptions
Review: The kids on this site all have some sort of special needs. You can see their pictures, and then read a short bio about them. The procedures are then laid out to make an application.
http://www.netonecom.net/~eagle/adopt.html
New York State Adoption Blue Book
Review: A remarkable directory of children up for adoption in New York state, complete with biographies and photos. But be forewarned, once you start browsing, you'll probably want to take them all home. The Blue Book is compiled by the state department of Social Services, and includes vital information on adoption procedures.
http://www.state.ny.us/dss/adopt
Universal Aid for Children
Review: This non-profit private agency in Florida coordinates all of the details for adoption of a child, either domestically or internationally. Links explain their mission and accomplishments in detail.
http://www.adopting.org/uac.html
Adoption Info Exchange
Review: Based in the state of Washington, this site is a clearinghouse of intelligence for current and prospective adoptive parents. Contains lawyer lists, support groups, various countries' adoption policies... most of the essentials.
http://www.halcyon.com/adoption/exchange.html
Adoption News
Review: The news (there isn't much) is of Helen Schwartz and young Daniel, who's part of an open adoption. The rest of this page is an annotated list of links to services, support groups and agencies.
http://pages.prodigy.com/newadoptivemom
American Association of Open Adoption Agencies
Review: Bill Betzen, a veteran of child placement services, posts these pages to encourage the practice of open adoption, whereby children maintain contact with birth parents from the start. While there's support for this within the adopted population, only four Catholic agencies have so far signed on.
http://www.openadoption.org/
Bastard Nation
Review: An activist, soon-to-be-nonprofit organization, it's dedicated to making adoption records open. You can buy BN bumper stickers, buttons, etc., find out about adoption conventions, and meet others who are dealing with their adoption identity.
http://www.bastards.org/
Dave's Adoption Links
Review: Dave's a 32-year-old adoptee in search of his birth mother. He frequents the #Adoption channel on the IRC and offers a links to BirthQuest and other related sites.
http://geocities.datacellar.net/CapitolHill/1372
Growing Families, Inc. (New Jersey)
Review: A non-profit adoption agency licensed by the state of New Jersey, and committed, they say, to honest, reputable practices to benefit the birth parent, the child and the adoptive family. Growing Families also handles overseas adoptions.
http://powerof.thesphere.com/GFI
Organization of Parents Through Surrogacy
Review: Group with chapters in various states provides a support network for families with children born through surrogacy or other "assisted reproductive technologies." You can get membership application, or sign and view its guestbook. However, neither its newsletter nor officers are online. Links to related sites.
http://www.opts.com/
PLAN
Review: In 1973, several adoptive families in McMinnville, Oregon banded together to help others drawn to the joys and trials of adoptions. Two years later they expanded their efforts to provide complete adoption services throughout the United States and Europe. Check details.
http://cs.gfc.edu/PLAN
Precious in His Sight: Adoption
Review: Check out photolistings of kids available for adoption from all over the globe; read an account of a visit to an Ethiopian orphanage; and check links to other adoption sites. You can also listen (if you dare) to an audio file recording, "Jesus Loves the Little Children."
http://www.adoption.com/
Rainbow House
Review: This New Mexico non-profit, national charitable corporation does direct adoptions of foreign children, placing them with U.S. families.
http://www.rhi.org/
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