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General Adoption Information:
Finding Your Child and Creating A Family
Adam Walsh Law
National
Adoption Information Clearinghouse
About.com
National
Adoption Center
AdoptNet
European
Adoption Symposium
AdoptionHQ
VIDA
 Exchanges &
Photo listings:
Adopt America Network
The Adoption Exchange
AdoptUSKids
Children Awaiting Parents
National Adoption Center
U.S. Government listings:
Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services (BCIS formerly
INS)
U.S. Department of State
Joint Council on International Children's Services
Tax Information: Internal Revenue Service
National Child-Welfare Resource Centers:
National Resource Center for Special Needs Adoptions
National Child Welfare Resource Center on Legal and Judicial
Issues
Medical Related:
Attachment Disorder Support Group
Association for Treatment and Training in the Attachment of Children
Children & Adults with Attention Deficit Disorder
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information
Parent Network for the Post-Institutionalized Child
About Our Kids
National Information Center for Children and Youth with Disabilities
Learning disabilities Association of America
Special Education Resources on the Internet
Medical Doctors Specializing in International Adoption:
Dr.
Janem Aronson
Dr. Jenista - phone: 734 668 0419 (no web address)
Dr.
Lisa Nalven
Dr. Bledsoe - phone: 206 598-3000 (no web address)
International Adoption Center - phone: 03-970-26541
(no web address)
To view an alphabetical list
of further MDs,
click here.
Open Adoption Resources:
"Adoption:
The Family Of Origin And Birth"
American Adoption Congress
(P.O. Box
44040, L'Enfant Plaza Station, Washington D.C. 20026) is
a national umbrella organization for the myriad of small
local organizations nationwide which offer support to
searching birthparents and adult adoptees and which
actively lobby for change in the adoption system.
Concerned United Birthparents
(2000 Walker St, Des Moines, IA
50317) is a national support and advocacy organization
for birthparents who have found adoption to be a
negative force in their lives. Their newsletter CUB
Reporter and a variety of fact sheets on issues of
coping and search present a view which can be highly
informative for professionals and for some adoptive
parents, but many less well read adopters will find this
material difficult and painful.
Travel Insurance for Adoptive Families:
http://www.travelprotectors.com/adoption.html
Recommended Reading:
Below is a list beginning with articles, then books and
finally, at the very bottom some
websites, which we have found helpful. Please contact us
if you would like to suggest a title. We appreciate your
help.
How to Make the Wait for Your
Child Easier to Bear by
Debbie McCurdy - to view the article,
click here. To download it,
click on the format desired:
Adoption Information (video
at end):
Adopting a Toddler: What Size
Shoes Does She Wear?
By Denise Harris Hoppenhauer
Communicating with the
Adopting Child, by
Miriam Komar
Real Parents, Real Children
(Parenting the Adopted Child),
by Holly van Gulden & Lisa M. Bartels-Rabb
Being Adopted, The Lifelong
Search for Self, by
David Brodzinsky & Marshall D. Schicter.
With Eyes Wide Open: A
Workbook for Parents Adopting International Children:
Children’s Home Society of Minnesota
Complete Idiot's Guide to
Adoption, by
Chris Adamec
Launching a Baby's
Adoption, by Patricia
Irwin Johnston
Beating the
Adoption Odds,
by Cynthia Martin
There Are Babies to
Adopt, by Christine
Adamec
The Private
Adoption Handbook,
by Stanley B. Michelman and Meg Schneider
The Whole Life
Adoption Book, by Jayne
Schooler
Adopt the Baby
You Want,
by Michael R. Sullivan and Susan Shultz.
Adopting Your Child:
Options, Answers, Actions,
by Nancy Thalia Reynolds
The Adoption
Resource Book,
by Lois Gilman
Our Child:
Preparation for Parenting in Adoption--Instructor's Guide,
by Carol Hallenbeck, R.n.
To Love a
Child: A Complete Guide to Adoption, Foster Parenting,
and Other Ways to Share Your Life with Children,
by Marianne Takas and Edward Warner
Adoption and
Disruption: Rates, Risks and Responses,
by Richard Barth and Marianne Berry
CWLA's Guide to Adoption Agencies,
by Julia Posner
Videos:
How-to Adopt
- Winning at Adoption,
by Sharon Kaplan (now Roszia) (Studio City, CA: The
Family Network, 1991). A multimedia approach to making
decisions about adoption style, this well put together
package includes videotapes, audiotapes and workbooks.
Adoptive Parenting:
Helping Children Cope with Separation and Loss,
by Claudia Jewett
Jarraatt
How to Raise an Adopted Child,
by Judith Schaffer &
Christina Linstrom
Raising Adopted Children,
by Lois Melina
Attachment Disorder:
Attachment, Trauma and
Healing: Understanding and Treating Attachment Disorder
in Children and Families,
by Terry M. Levy and
Michael Orlans
When Love is Not Enough: A Guide to Parenting
Children with RAD-Reactive Attachment Disorder,
by Nancy L. Thomas
Holding Time, by
Martha G. Welch
Children’s Adoption Books:
All Kinds of Families,
by Norman Simon
How I Was Adopted,
by Joanne Cole
We Wanted You,
by Liz Rosenberg
A Mother for Choco,
by Keiko Kasza
Why Was I Adopted? by Carole Livingston
Financial aspects:
How to Make
Adoption an Affordable Option,
by the National Endowment for Financial Education
Adoption and
Financial Assistance: Tools for Navigating the
Bureaucracy, by Rita
Laws and Tim O'Hanlon; Adoption Subsidy: A Guide
for Adoptive Parents,
by Tim O'Hanlon, Ph.D.
Infertility:
Adopting after Infertility,
by Patricia Irwin
Johnston
Older Child Adoption:
Our Own Adopting and Parenting the Older Child,
by Trish Maskew
Adopting the Older Child,
by Claudia Jewett
Parenting Your Adopted Older Child,
by Benda McCreight,
PhD.
Open Adoption (including
videos--listed
at the end):
Adoption: A Handful of Hope,
by Suzanne Arms
An Open Adoption, by
Lincoln Caplan
How to Open an Adoption: A Guide for Parents and
Birthparents of Minors,
by Patricia Martinez
Dorner
Openness in Adoption: Exploring Family Connections,
by H D Grotevant and
Ruth G McRoy
Adoption without Fear,
edited by James. L. Gritter
The Spirit of Open Adoption,
by James L Gritter
Open Adoption: A Caring Option,
by Jean Warren Lindsay
The Open Adoption Book: A Guide to Adoption Without
Tears, by Bruce
Rappaport, Ph.D.
The Open Adoption
Experience: A Complete Guide for Adoptive and Birth
Families, by Sharon
Kaplan Roszia and Lois Melina
A Letter to Adoptive Parents: on Open Adoption,
by Randolph W. Severson
Dear Birthmother: Thank you for Our Baby,
by Kathleen Silber and
Phylis Speedlin
Children of Open Adoption,
by Kathleen Silber and
Patricia Martinez Dorner
The Psychology
of Adoption, edited
by David M.Brodzinsky
and Marshall Schechter
Being Adopted: The Lifelong Search for Self
by David M.Brodzinsky
and Marshall Schechter
I Wish for You a Beautiful Life: Letters from the Korean
Birth Mothers of Ae Ran Won to Their Children, edited
by Sara Dorow
Shattered Dreams--Lonely Choices: Birthparents of Babies
with Disabilities Talk about Adoption
by Joanne Finnegan
Reunion: A Year in Letters Between a Birmother and the
Daughter She Couldn't Keep
by Katie Hern and Ellen
McGarry Carolson
Perspectives on a Grafted Tree: Thoughts for Those
Touched by Adoption
edited by Patricia Irwin Johnston
Birthmothers: Women Who Have Relinquished Babies
for Adoption Tell Their Stories
by Merry Bloch Jones
Lost and Found: The Adoption Experience
by Betty Jean Lifton
Out of the Shadows: Birthfathers' Stories
by Mary Martin Mason.
An Adopted Woman by
Katrina Maxtone-Graham
The Family of Adoption
by Joyce Maguire Pavao
The Open Adoption Pocket Guide Book Series, Royal Oak,
MI: R-Squared Press, 1999. A four booklet series,
contains these individual elements: Your Rights and
Responsibilities: A Guide for Expectant Parents
Exploring Adoption by Brenda Romanchik. 21 page booklet.
ISBN 0-9641035-0-8, $5.95. Birthparent Grief by Brenda
Romanchik. 17 page booklet, ISBN 0-9641035-6-7, $5.95.
Being a Birthparent: Finding Our Place by Brenda
Romanchik. 17 page booklet, ISBN 0-9641035-9-1, $5.95.
What Is Open Adoption? by Brenda Romanchik. 19 page
booklet, ISBN 0-9641035-4-0, $5.95.
The Dark Side of Adoption
by Marsha Riben
Searching for a Past: The Adopted Adult's Unique Process
of Finding Identity by
Jayne Schooler
Dear Birthfather by
Randolph W. Severson, Ph.D.
The Adoption Life Cycle: The Children and their Families
through the Years by
Elinor B Rosenberg
The Adoption Triangle: The Effects of the Sealed Record
on Adoptees, Birth Parents and Adoptive Parents
by Arthur D.Sorosky,
Annette Baran and Reuben Pannor
Giving Away Simone
by Jan
Waldron
Videos
(Openness
in Adoption):
"Open
Adoptions: The Experts Speak Out"
from Children's
Services Ctr. in Pacific Grove, CA features interviews
with and conversations between Carol Bishop, Barb
Tremitiere, Kathleen Silber, Sharon Kaplan, Patricia
Martinez Dorner, Annette Baran, Jeanne Etter, Jim
Gritter, Joyce Maguire Pavao and Carol Biddle.
"Our Child"
from Hope Adoption
Service in Canada follows one set of birthparents and
one set of adoptive parents in their decision to plan an
open adoption with one another.
"Starting New Families:
Open and Independent
Race/Transracial Adoption:
Dim Sum, Bagels and Grits: A Sourcebook for
Multicultural Families, by Myra Alperson
I Don’t Have Your Eyes,
by Carrie Kitze
All Kinds of Children,
by Norma Simon
The Family Book,
by Todd Parr
It’s Okay to be Different,
by Todd Parr
Does Anybody Else Look Like Me? A Parent’s Guide to
Raising Multiracial Children,
by Donna Jackson
Nakazawa
Black Baby White Hands: A View from the Crib,
by Jaiya John
Inside Transracial Adoption,
by Gail Steinberg &
Beth Hall
In Their Own Voices: Transracial Adoptees Tell Their
Stories, by Rita J.
Simon & Rhonda M. Roorda
What Type of
Child? Adopting and Advocating for the Special Needs
Child,
by L Anne Babb and Rita Laws
How to Adopt a
Child from Another Country,
by Eileen M Wirth and Joan Worden
"Where Do Black Kids Belong? The Politics of Race
Matching in Adoption",
by Elizabeth Bartholet
Gift Children: A
Story of Race Family and Adoption in a Divided America,
by J. Douglas Bates
A Passage to the
Heart: Writings from Families with Children from China,
edited by Amy Klatzkin
Transracial Adoption: Children and Parents Speak Out,
by Constance Pohl and Kathy Harris
Are Those Kids Yours? American Families with Children
Adopted from Other Countries,
by Cheri Register
Inside Transracial Adoption,
by Gail Steinberg and Beth Hall (
Secret Thoughts of an Adoptive Mother,
by Jana Wolff
Special-Needs & Older Children:
A Child's Journey through Placement, by Vera I. Fahlberg,
M.D.
Self Awareness, Self-Selection, and Success: A Parent
Preparation Guidebook for Special Needs Adoption,
by Wilfred Hamm, T Morton and L Flynn
Toddler Adoption: The Weaver's Craft,
by Mary Hopkins-Best, Ed.D.
Adopting the Older Child,
by Claudia Jarratt
Helping Children Cope with Separation and Loss,
by Claudia Jewett
Adopting the Hurt Child: Hope for Families with
Special-Needs Kids, by
Gregory Keck and Regina Kupecky
Forever Parents: Adopting Older Children,
by James E Kloeppel and Darlene A Kloeppel
Don't Touch My Heart: Healing the Pain of the Unattached
Child, by Lynda
Gianforte Mansfield and Christopher H. Waldmann
With Eyes Wide Open: A Workbook for Parents Adopting
International Children over Age One,
by
Margie Miller and Nancy Ward for the Children's Home
Society of Minnesota
Tapestry Books for adoption
materials:
www.tapestrybooks.com
Adoption Learning Partners:
www.adoptionlearningpartners.org |
