Adoption Issues by the Professionals
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.
In the Best Interests of Whom?
The Baby Richard Case and the Need for Reform by Marcy Axness
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