Important Information for Pre-adoptive and Adoptive Parents

Important Information for
Pre-adoptive and Adoptive Parents

Especially for Pre-Adoptive Families

• Enduring the Wait
  
• Pre-adoptive Parents: Meeting Your Birth Mother
  
• What about the cost of adoption? Can I adopt if I am not rich? Is there any financial help to adopt?
  
• Networking: A ProActive Approach to Adoption/Finding a Birth Family on your Own
  
• What kinds of benefits are available from employers?
  Includes discussion of adoption leave, list of companies offering adoption benefits
  
• What is Interstate Compact?
• What is the Jewish position on adoption?
  "Adoption as a Jewish Option" by Rabbi Michael Gold
• Can I adopt if I am in the military?
  
• Can I adopt if I am gay/lesbian?
  
• How to Choose Your Baby's/Child's Pediatrician
  Don't wait until your child comes home. Start looking now.
  
• Supporting an Adoption
  
• Positive Adoption Language
  

Once You've Adopted

• Talking to Your Child About Adoption
  
• Explaining Adoption to Your Child
  
• Answers to Children's Questions About Adoption
  
• Post Adoption Depression Syndrome
  Yes, it is more common than you think. You've reached your goal of parenthood, but depression often follows.
  
• What are some of the issues we face with interracial 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
  
• When You Need Help
  
• The Identity Crisis Years
  Sometime in their lives most adopted people must face the issue that they were given up by their birth parents.

• Issues to Consider Concerning International Adoption
  
• What are some of the Issues which face Interracial Families?
  
• Building Bridges to Your Child's Ethnic Community
  
• Adoption and FAS (Fetal Alcohol Syndrome)
  
• 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)
  
• Searching Resources
  
• Second Rejection: The Issue of Rejection Among Adoptees by Marcy Axness
  
• Painful Lessons: The Need for True Open Adoption by Marcy Axness
  
• In the Best Interests of Whom?
  The Baby Richard Case and the Need for Reform by Marcy Axness
  

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