Continued from the previous post.

The Adoption Institute is possibly the best place to start the learning adventure that leads to adoption, as the wealth of information there is broad and comprehensive and has no agenda aside from fairness and honest evaluation.

Started up by an adoptive parent and headed now by another, the Institute is all about promoting ethical practices and legal reforms.

Ethica is another group dedicated to leading in ethical reform in the adoption world.

The Child Welfare Information Gateway, formerly the National Adoption Information Clearinghouse, provides information on just about every issue touching children you can think of.

The Center for Family Connections serves, " ... individuals and families touched by adoption, foster care, kinship, and guardianship, as well as other complex blended families, and to serve the people with whom they are connected by offering training, education, consultation, advocacy, and clinical treatment."

Concerned United Birthparents supports birth parents who have relinquished children to adoption and provides, "... resources to help prevent unnecessary family separations, to educate the public about the life-long effects on all who are touched by adoption, and to advocate for fair and ethical adoption laws, policies, and practices."

The National Adoption Center, " ... expands adoption opportunities for children throughout the United States, particularly children with special needs and from minority cultures."

They also conduct training through their learning center and offer online parenting courses for prospective adoptive parents.

For singles, the National Council for Single Adoptive Parents was founded to inform and assist single people who want to adopt.

The North American Council on Adoptable Children was started by adoptive parents to meet the needs of waiting children in foster care and the families who adopt them.

This site lists legal considerations for prospective adoptive parents.

This gives a comprehensive lists of questions potential adoptive parents should ask and answer before moving into the adoption process.

For a PDF of questions to ask adoption agencies, here's a guide put out by the government.

This is an online version of the book I wrote about US Infant Adoptions that contains much on ethics and ways to insure going about the process the right way. Here's the ebook version.


The list continues on the next post.