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ADOPTIONS:
The Internet Adoption School:
http://www.Adoption101.com/
The Internet Adoption School provides information on independent, agency, and international adoptions. The website has online educationalseminars to help you plan a safe, ethical, and loving adoption.
Center for Adoptive Families (CAF): http://www.centerforadoptivefamilies.com
The Center for Adoptive Families (CAF) is the first comprehensive pre- and post-adoption counseling and education center in the
Baltimore and Washington area.
Foster & Adoptive Parent Advocacy Center (FAPAC):
http://www.dcfapac.org/
FAPAC provides training in advocacy skills to help foster, kinship, and
adoptive parents become stronger advocates for the children in their
homes. They offer individual case advocacy for families and have a
systematic advocacy agenda directed at issues especially identified
by foster and adoptive parent communities.
National Foster Parents Association:
http://www.NFPAinc.org/
The National Foster Parents Association aims to support foster parents, and remains a consistently strong violence on behalf of all
children. They serve foster families through a network of affiliates.
Books on Adoption:
- Adopting in America: How to Adopt Within One Year, by Randy Hicks
- Adopting After Infertility
- You CAN Adopt, by Susan Caughman
- Adoption: The Essential Guide to Adopting Quickly and Safely
- Adoption in the United States, by Henry & Pollack
- Adoption Nation: How the Adoption Revolution is Transforming America, by Adam Pertman
- The Complete Idiot's Guide to Adoption
- The Family of Adoption by Joyce Maguire Pavao
- 20 Things Which Every Adopted Child Wishes His Parents Knew
- Any book by Lois Melina
- The Russian Adoption Handbook: How to Adopt a Child from Russia and Eastern Europe
- Adoption Nation
- How to Adopt Internationally, by Brichsen & Erichsen
- A Guide to Agency Directed and Independent Adoptions
- The Five Love Languages of Children
- Telling the Truth to Your Adopted or Foster Child
- Mothering Without a Map (good for Dads too!)
- Twenty Things Adopted Kids Wish Their Adoptive Parents Knew
- Lifegivers
- Making Sense of Adoption
- Journey of the Adopted Self
- The Handbook of International Adoption Medicine, by Dr. Laurie C. Miller
- The Third Choice: A Woman's Guide to Placing a Child for Adoption
Magazines on Adoption
Adoptive Families:
www.adoptivefamilies.com
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