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- Single Adoptive Parents Mailing List - A mailing list for single adoptive parents providing discussions of parenting issues and personal experiences specific to single parent adopting.
- Independent Adoption Resource Center - The Independent Adoption Resource Center helps birth parents and prospective adoptive parents find each other make an adoption plan.
- Related By Choice - Article on gay and lesbian adoptive parenting by Michael Colberg; educator, psychotherapist and gay adoptive parent. Stresses the adoptee child's view of adoption and the similarities in experiences between being adopted and being gay.
- Unique Families: Adoption and Special Needs - Support for parents with children with special needs or children who are adopted. Mailing lists, articles by parents and professionals, resources.
- Afterhours Inspirational Stories: Adoption - Personal stories from adoptive parents.
- Single Parent Special Needs Adoption - A personal experience with adopting an older child as a single parent.
- Bay Area Homes for Kids - Provides information to prospective parents who are looking to become a foster or adoptive parents. The main objective is to disseminate important information about adoption and foster care and to entice parents to take the next step towards becoming a parent.
- Suite 101: Adoptive Parenting - Weekly articles, message board and links to related resources.
- About.com: Adoption Forum - Five forums for adoption, adoptive parents, adoptees, birth parents, and blended families.
- Grace Adoptions - A licensed child placement agency in Arkansas providing comprehensive adoption services to birth parents, adoptive parents, and other adoption agencies.
Wikipedia Articles
- Interracial adoption - Interracial adoption means placing a child who is of one race or ethnic group with adoptive parents of another race or ethnic group, usually through the public child welfare system. The most recent estimates, which include international adoptions, found that 8% of adoptions were interracial In the United States] this term predominantly refers to placement of children of color or children from another country ...
- Pagan Operetta - ... inspired by Homer's Odyssey. Structured as a poetic memoir, Rux begins the first section reflecting on his early childhood in foster care after the death of his alcoholic grandmother ("Blue Candy"); reveals an early experience with sexual abuse ("Red Velvet Dress Lullaby"); pays homage to his biological parents: a woman institutionalized for schizophrenia and the unknown father of her child ("Wasted Seed"); revisits the jazz music and spousal abuse of his adoptive parents and concludes with a surreal short story entitled Asphalt (which would later inspire his novel of the same name) about a boy walking through the ruins of an urban landscape as rose buds blossom from his skin.
- Adoption - Adoption is the legal act of permanently placing a child with a parent or parents other than the birth mother or father. An adoption order has the effect of severing the parental responsibilities and rights of the birth parents and transferring those responsibilities and rights onto the adoptive parent(s).
- International adoption - International adoption, or intercountry adoption, is a type of adoption in which an individual or couple becomes the legal and permanent parents of a child born in another country. In general, prospective adoptive parents must meet the legal adoption requirements of their country of residence and those of the country in which the child was born.
- Minnesota Texas Adoption Research Project - The Minnesota / Texas Adoption Research Project (MTARP) is a longitudinal research study that focuses on the consequences of variations in openness in adoption arrangements for all members of the adoptive kinship network: birthmothers, adoptive parents, and adopted children, and for the relationships within these family systems.