Library of Articles: Issues in Adoption & Foster Care

Library of articles on the site about issues of concern in adoption and foster care.

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Adoption Language
Insight into and information about the words and terms connected to adoption and adoptive families, and how we use them.

Adoptee Rights in 1998
Guest contributor Albert Wei widens our view to the international scene as he looks back on the year gone by.

Adoption Fraud
Beware, be smart, but if you get in trouble, know where to turn for help.

Ancestry: Unknown - Adopted
Adoption and Census 2000

Biological Fathers' Rights in Adoption
Courts are sending clear messages: Don't play fast and loose with the rights of biological dads!

Child & Family Services Reviews - 07/25/03
This round of federal government reviews of states' compliance with standards set for 14 major areas in their child and family services is well underway and we're tracking the results. So how are we doing?

Embryo Adoption: The Future is Now
Orwellian or Machiavellian? Mix-and-match do-it-yourself kits may be on the horizon for parents.

Embryo Adoption Revisited
As stem cell research takes the international spotlight, the related issue of embryo adoption, with its own controversies, is being discussed by government leaders. From William L. Pierce, PhD.

From Hell to Heaven: How Orphan Care Evolves
Is a renewed interest in establishing orphanages in the U.S. a step closer to hell? In this article, Dr. Rita Laws looks at how orphan care evolves, and explains why many think the answer is "yes."

Genetic Sexual Attraction
At reunion, we may feel drawn to biological family members for many reasons, including physical. When genetic attraction involves a sexual aspect, it is called GSA. Learn more, and find support if this is a concern in your reunion.

Hello Before Goodbye
Therapist Marlou Russell, Ph.D. explains why she believes it's important to allow mother-child bonding without the presence of prospective adoptive parents before birth.

Inside Out: Foster Care Reform
Former foster children are joining together to push for reform. Advocate William Ritchotte explains what's needed and how to get it done.

Killer Adoptees: Don't Shoot the Messenger
Author, anti-adoption activist, reunited mom, searcher and researcher, Lori Carangelo, offers her rebuttal to Myth Series: Killer Adoptees.

Non-Traditional Adoption
Articles about non-traditional adoption including adoption by gays and lesbians, single persons, and older persons.

On Behalf of Samuel
Adoptive parents from Norway are taking it public. Their concerns are conditions and care for children in institutions, starting with the Philippine orphanage from which they adopted their son, Samuel.

Opening a Closed Adoption
When you believe it's in your child's best interest, it can be done. Two moms talk frankly about their experience.

Openness in Adoption
At the Dave Thomas Center for Adoption Law symposium on open records and open adoption, there lots of discussion, differing viewpoints, and some surprises along the way.

Safe Haven Laws & Programs
Safe Haven laws and programs permitting the legal abandonment of babies are controversial both in the adoption community and elsewhere. Articles include references for further reading of various opinions.

Sealed Records: The Last Stigma
It's time to move on and leave behind the stigma attached to adoption.

Suckerpunch
An adoptee believes he has been suckerpunched by the sealed records system and is going public to raise awareness of the obstacles facing other searchers.

The Open Records Debate
This series looks at all sides of an issue that's got the adoption community up in arms.

When Is It Baby-Selling?
Adoption has its share of questions about ethical practices, but one of the most hotly debated concerns the role of money: how much, what it's used for, to whom it's paid. For some, it all comes down to the question of baby-selling.

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