Adoption Issues by the Professionals

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Personal Stories about Adoption

Enduring the Wait

Dealing with Adoption Detours
This author shares her experience and strength with adoptive families dealing with adoption disruptions.
Pre-adoptive Parents: Meeting Your Birth Mother

Supporting an Adoption

Positive Adoption Language

How to Choose an Agency for an International Adoption

Authentic Beginnings: Real Bonds
Honest Talk About Adoption by Marcy Axness

Networking: A ProActive Approach to Adoption/Finding a Birth Family on your Own

Mastering Bad Feelings

How to Choose Your Baby's/Child's Pediatrician

Adoption and FAS (Fetal Alcohol Syndrome)

Talking to your Pre-school Child about Adoption

TO TELL OR NOT TO TELL...
What do you say to the school about adoption and your child?

What about the cost of adoption? Can I adopt if I am not rich?
Is there any financial help to adopt?

What is the Jewish position on adoption?
"Adoption as a Jewish Option" by Rabbi Michael Gold
New! Tapes "Family Through the Eyes of God." from Rabbi Michael Gold. 1-888-HEART15
Also see Infertility/Adoption information.

What kinds of benefits are available from employers for adoption?
Includes discussion of adoption leave, list of companies offering adoption benefits

Information on New Tax Credit for Adoptive Families

Can I adopt if I am in the military?

Can I adopt if I am gay/lesbian?

What is Interstate Compact?

Dealing with Adoption Detours?

Post Adoption depression syndrome
Yes, it is more common than you think. You've reached your goal of parenthood, but depression often follows.

Explaining Adoption to Your Child

Answers to children's questions About Adoption

How do I answer those"rude/awkward" questions people ask me about my children?
One mom's gracious answers to awkward questions about our adopted kids

Adoption and the Stages of Development:
What Parents Can Expect at Different Ages

Painful Lessons: the Need for True Open Adoption by Marcy Axness

Adopting The International Child With Special Needs

Issues to Consider Concerning International Adoption

What are some of the Issues which face Interracial Families?

Building Bridges to Your Child's Ethnic Community

The Case Against International Adoption by Peter Dodds

Identity Crisis Years
Sometime in their lives, most adopted people must face the issue that they were given up by their birth parents.

Searching Resources

When You Need Help
How do I know when I need help? Post adoption counseling.

Common Clinical Issues Among Adoptees
(Those who have received psychological treatment)

Issues Facing Adult Adoptees

Second Rejection: The Issue of Rejection Among Adoptees by Marcy Axness

Painful Lessons: The Need for True Open Adoption by Marcy Axness

In Defense of the Primal Wound
An adoptee discusses Nancy Verrier's primal wound theory.