ADOPTION RESOURCES
These are Adoption Resources.
Please also see: Foster Care Resources
ARTICLES/INFORMATION/RESEARCH
(click here for Organizations/Agencies)
AAP Supports Adoption By Same-Sex Parents
Press Release from the American Academy of Pediatrics, supporting adoptions by loving, capable same-sex couples.
Adopted Overseas Children Will Become Instant U.S. Citizens
The Palm Beach Post, February 22, 2001
Bid to Adopt Baby Gets Challenge Today
Detroit Free-Press, May 15, 2001
- Judge Considers Abandoned Girl's Fate
Detroit Free-Press, May 16, 2001
Dead Girl's Kin Sue Adoption Agency
The Fresno Bee, March 15, 2002
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome & Adoption
Roots & Wing Adoption Magazine, 1995
Florida's Gay Adoption Ban Challenged
The Associated Press, June 4, 2001
- Gay Couples Should Be Allowed To Adopt Children, Doctors Group Says
Sun-Sentinel, February 4, 2002 - Children's Groups Criticize Florida's Ban on Gay Adoptions
Sun-Sentinel, February 21, 2002 - Ex-Legislators Renounce Ban on Gay Adoptions They Passed in 1977
Sun-Sentinel, March 7, 2002
Foster Parent Adoption: What Parents Should Know
From the National Adoption Information Clearinghouse regarding adoption by foster parents.
Foster Parent Adoption: What Professionals Should Know
From the National Adoption Information Clearinghouse regarding adoption by foster parents.
Gay, Religious Groups Demand That Moore Resign
The Tuscaloosa News, February 23, 2002
Hutchins, Texas 'Girl in the Closet' Case
Archive of articles related to the neglect, physical, and sexual abuse of Hutchins, TX girl confined in closet for years, after initial relinquishment by biological mother and subsequent regaining of custody from foster parents.
Lingering Hope
South China Morning News, July 26, 2001
Now You're a Parent, Now You Aren't
Salon.com, November 28, 2001
Parents Sue After Discovering Adopted Children Had Been Abused
Sun-Sentinel, July 18, 2002
Permanency Planning: Sword or Shield?
Adoptalk, Spring 1984
UNICEF Warns India of Phony Foreign Adoption Deals
Reuters, February 9, 2001
ORGANIZATIONS/AGENCIES
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Adoption Family Center
c/o Families Like Ours, Inc.
P.O. Box 3137
Renton, WA 98056-3137
Phone (Washington): (425) 793-7911
Phone (AZ office): (425) 699-2897
www.adoptionfamilycenter.org
AFC/FLO is an organization dedicated to providing gay adoptive, or prospective adoptive, parents the support and tools necessary to provide for a healthy environment for all our children. Includes links to state laws, information, chat room and message board, as well as links to adoptive/parenting Resources.
Agencies by State
acf.dhhs.gov/programs/cb/publications/adopt.htm
State-by-state listing of adoption agencies, from the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services.
Cruelty & Neglect in Russian Orphanages
Human Rights Watch
350 Fifth Avenue, 34th Floor
New York, NY 10118-3299
Phone: (212) 290-4700
www.hrw.org/campaigns/russia98/
Human Rights Watch's campaign to improve conditions in Russian orphanages.
CWLA Adoption Program
Child Welfare League of America
440 First Street, N.W., 3rd Floor
Washington, DC 20001-2085
Phone: (202) 638-2952
www.cwla.org/programs/adoption/
Adoption Facts, resources, and publications. Sections on single-parent and special-needs adoptions, State Adoption Profiles, legislative information.
International Adoption
U.S. Department of State
Office of Children's Issues
Room 4811, Overseas Citizens Services
Bureau of Consular Affairs
Washington, DC 20520-4818
Phone: (202) 736-7000
travel.state.gov/adopt.html
U.S. State Department information regarding international adoption, listing by country of laws, regulations, and special issues.
National Abandoned Infants Assistance Resource Center
School of Social Welfare, UC Berkeley
1950 Addison Street, Suite 104
Berkeley, CA 94704-1182
Phone: (510) 643-8390
socrates.berkeley.edu/~aiarc/
Education and legislative information re "boarder babies," infants prenatally exposed to alcohol, drugs, or HIV, then abandoned in hospitals. State-by-state list of programs, statistics, publications.
National Adoption Information Clearinghouse
330 "C" Street, S.W.
Washington, DC 20447
Phone: (703) 352-3488
Toll-free: 1-888-251-0075
naic.acf.hhs.gov
Sponsored by the U.S. Dept. of Health & Human Services, information, statistics, state adoption laws, publications, links to resources.
National Resource Center for Special Needs Adoptions
16250 Northland Drive, Suite 120
Southfield, MI 48075
Phone: (248) 443-0306
www.nrcadoption.org
