Adoption

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Kinship Style: Open, Closed, or Shifting

Families connected by adoption often encounter a variety of challenges when it comes to their style of relating to the larger kinship group. What is the impact of open, closed, and shifting (sometimes open, sometimes closed) ways of being with our children's other families?... [more]

Resources

• Organizations that Provide Adoption Consultation and Technical Assistance
• Organizations that Provide Adoption Research
• Organizations that Provide Adoption Publications - Materials
• Organizations that Provide Adoption Information and Referral

Answering Adoption Questions

• Adopted Children
• Adoption
• Adoption... And After
• Authentic Beginnings, Real Bonds
• Being Adopted
• Closet Assumptions (Part One)
• Explaining Adoption to Your Children, Family, and Friends
• Gracious Answers to Awkward Questions About Our Adopted Kids
• Home Study
• Identifying, Understanding and Helping Your Child With Adoption Issues During Middle-Childhood - Par
• It Could Have Been Me
• On Using Positive Adoption Language
• more

Adoption Language

• Unsolicited Comments
• Positive Adoption Language
• Adoption Terminology
• A Few Words on Words in Adoption
• Adoption Language: Promoting a Positive Image
• Definition of Adoption
• Helpful Adoption Terms to Know
• Birth Mother: What's in a Name?

Costs & Financial Help

• Loans
• Bush Tax Bill Fulfills Campaign Pledge to Aid Children and Families
• Resources to Help Defray Adoption Costs
• College Tuition Waiver and Scholarship Programs
• Adoption Expenses - Attorney and Court Costs
• Dissolution of Adoption or Death of Adoptive Parents
• How To Make Adoption an Affordable Option
• Adoption Expenses - Planning for Your Child's Immediate Needs
• Adoption Expenses - Taxes on Assistance
• Cost of Adopting
• Adoption Fees - Before Your Child Comes Home
• Adoption Expenses - State Laws and Fees
• more
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Domestic Infant Adoption

• Meeting A Birthmother for the First Time
• Networking
• Pick Me: an Adoption Story
• Vying to be Among the Chosen
• Birthmother Letter
• Independent Adoption
• Infant Adoption

Domestic Waiting Child Adoption

• Adopting Adoptable Domestic Children
• Sibling Group Adoption

Grandparent Adoption

Interracial/Multicultural Adoption

• A Transracial Adoption for Michael
• The Case for Transracial Adoption
• The Colors of Adoption: Black vs. White
• Transracial and Transcultural Adoption
• To Katmandu, with Love: ...Continued
• Transracial Adoption
• Culture, Heritage and Stereotypes
• The Care and Feeding of a Multicultural Glutton
• Beyond Culture
• Issues to Consider Before Pursuing Intercountry Adoption
• Dealing with Biracial Adoptive Situation
• The Adopted Koreans - Diaspora Politics and the Construction of an Ethnic Identity
• more

Military Adoption

• Military Families and Adoption: A Fact Sheet for Families
• Military Subsidies