Adoption Resources

Whether you are wating for your child or have already brought them home, there are many resources available to you on your adoption journey. Here are some of my favorites:

General Adoption Information

• About.com
• Adopting.com
• Adoption.com
• Adoption Angles on MomTV
• Adoption Connection
• Adoption Voices
• Adoptive Families, the online adoption and parenting guide, has provided trusted adoption information and inspiration to families for over 30 years.
• Adoptive Families Examiner
• Adoptive Parents Committee, Inc.
• American Adoption Congress
• Child Welfare Information Gateway
• ComeUnity
• Dave Thomas Foundation
• How to Get Pregnant/Adoption
• North American Council on Adoptable Children
• Wikipedia.org

Adoptees

• Adoptee.org
• Find My Family Adoption Reunion Registry
• International Soundex Reunion Registry

Adoptive Parenting

• Adoption - Journey to Motherhood
• Parents for Ethical Adoption Reform (PEAR)
• The Little Prince (Surviving Life with Reactive Attachment Disorder)

Birth Families

• Adoption - Journey to Motherhood
• Birth Mother, First Mother Forum
• Concerned United Birthparents (CUB)
• Find My Family Adoption Reunion Registry

International Adoption

• Ethio-American Family Services
• Ethiopia Adoption
• Families with Children from China (FWCC)
• Families for Russian and Ukrainian Adoption (FRUA)
• Korean American Adoptee Adoptive Family Network (KAAN)
• Korean Focus

Transracial Adoption

• Transracial/Transcultural Adoption

Recommended Reading

• What I Want My Adopted Child to Know: An Adoptive Parent's Perspective by Sally Bacchetta
• The Girls Who Went Away by Ann Fessler
• Growing Up Black in White by Kevin Hofmann
• 50 Years in 13 Days by Katie Decosse and Jackie Maher

Children's Adoption Books

• Best for You by Kelsey Stewart
• Just In Case You Ever Wonder by Max Lucado
• Tell Me Again About the Night I Was Born by Jamie Lee Curtis
• Where Do I Belong? by Ola Zuri
• Why Can't You Look Like Me? by Ola Zuri

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