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Adopting Family Resources

Provides helpful information to help you choose from the many types of adoption. Includes information on choosing between an agency adoption or a private adoption, an open adoption or closed adoption, a domestic adoption or international adoption, adoption by an agency or facilitator, an intrastate or interstate adoption.  An understanding of these types of adoption is important since each type of adoption has implications for the adopting family.

Offers more information about domestic adoption and about international adoption, with special emphasis on China adoption, Russia adoption, and Guatemala adoption. 

Provides information from federal and state sources as well as information on the Federal Tax Credit,  assistance from employers, and health insurance coverage.

Includes information on the emotional issues of children adopted from a hospital, orphanage or other institution throughout the world.  Support groups, and  numerous organizations to contact for help are provided.

Covers the adoption topics of adoption by single men and women, gay and lesbian adoption, adoption by relatives of the birth mother or birth father, and step-parent adoption.

Discusses access to records, including obtaining birth records, and the topic of search & reunion through adoption registries.

Provides information on the rights of the birth mother and birth father, the biological grandparents, and the adopting family.

Includes state adoption laws, information related to adoption expenses, and other important adoption laws.

Offers resources from a variety of federal sources as well as state agencies and child welfare programs.

Includes fingerprinting,  transracial adoption, and adoption disruptions.

Discusses child development, explaining adoption, adoption and schools, and intervention and help by an adoption therapist.