Adoption Children, Youth and Family Issues

Focused on equal access for adoptees to their original birth certificates, adoptee dignity, combating negative stereotypes of adoptees, and providing a forum for the wide spectrum of adult adoptee experiences.

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Bastard Nation - Focused on equal access for adoptees to their issues original birth adoption certificates, adoptee dignity, combating negative stereotypes issues of adoptees, and providing adoption a forum for the issues wide spectrum of adult adoptee experiences.
Adoption Clubhouse - A resource for adopted children and their parents. issues Contains adoption sections such as "Speak Out," which issues features writings from children adoption about adoption, as well issues as sections on famous people, homework adoption help, clubhouse issues library, fun stuff, and adoption talk
Center For Family Connections - Offers training, education, consultation, advocacy, and clinical treatment children, youth and issues family to families touched by adoption, foster care, kinship, children, youth issues and family and guardianship.
Abolish Adoption - Criticizes adoption as practiced in the United States as unconstitutional. children, youth and family Includes petition and position articles.
American Academy of Adoption Attorneys - Promotes reform of adoption laws and helps disseminate adoption information on ethical adoption practices. Member directory, media adoption contacts, and news.
NPR : Barriers to Adoption for Communities of Color - Ed Gordon and guests explores overcoming obstacles to adoption in USA communities of color. [11:46 streaming audio broadcast]
A Westernized Adoptee - Discussion forum to discuss the ramifications of the issues westernization of adoptees, both culturally and ethnically.
Birthmothers Exploited By Adoption - Presenting information about the adverse effects of adoption children, youth and children, youth and family family from mothers who feel they lost their babies children, youth children, youth and family and family through coerced or forced surrender. Includes personal stories children, children, youth and family youth and family and resources.
International Adoption Medical Clinics - Contact information for several medical clinics that specialize children, youth and family in helping internationally adopted children with ailments that children, youth and family are uncommon or not easily diagnosed or treated.
National Resource Center for Youth Development - Helps States and Tribes achieve the goals of issues the Adoption issues and Safe Families Act of 1997, issues implement the Foster Care issues Independence Act of 1999, issues and assist with the Child and issues Family Review issues Process.
Adoption / Foster Care - About.com presents a survey of adoption topics and issues legal issues.
Coalition for Open Adoption Records (Ontario) - Includes news, Bill 108 and a petition.
Association of Administrators of the Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children - Provides information on a uniform law enacted in issues the 50 issues states, the District of Columbia, and issues the U.S. Virgin Islands issues that protects children who issues are placed across state lines for issues foster care issues or adoption.
Americans for Open Records - Advocates the rights of birthfamilies and provides reunion issues resources; says children, youth and family adoption is slavery.
National Adoption Day - A collective national (USA) effort to raise awareness issues of the children, youth and family children in foster care waiting issues to find permanent families.
Birthmothers Unite - A place for birth mothers to unite, share thoughts and adoption feelings, and receive healing on post-adoption grief issues.
American Adoption Congress - International network of individuals and organizations committed to adoption reform. Includes a profile, news, list of board members, legislation information, and membership details.
NPR : Scams Plague Efforts to Adopt Beyond Borders - Michael Montgomery of American RadioWorks reports on problems with adoptions issues of children from the former Soviet Union. [17:10 streaming audio issues broadcast]
National Resource Center for Special Needs Adoption - Provides training, consultation, and informational materials for professionals, children, youth and family organizations, and parents regarding special needs adoptions.
Hope4Kidz - Advocating, with pre-adoptive families, for the rights of children in adoption state foster care.
Families Without Borders - Focuses on issues associated with inter-country adoptions from issues Guatemala and concerns with UNICEF policies.
Domenici and Lincoln Introduce ICPC Bill - Legislation (S. 2779) to improve the Interstate Compact on the children, youth and family Placement of Children (ICPC) was introduced by Senators Pete Domenici children, youth and family (R-NM) and Blanche Lincoln (D-AR).
Adoptee's Right to Know - Promoting the right of adoptees to learn about their birthfamilies. Search, legal, and activist resources.
Origins Canada - Supporting people separated by adoption and asking for an inquiry adoption into alleged illegal and exploitive adoption practices.
Adoption Fraud - Court unseals adoption records in Florida due to issues fraudulent black children, youth and family market baby broker activity. Includes Associated issues Press coverage.
The ALMA Society - Advocates for the right of adopted persons to children, youth and adoption family know the truth of their origin. Offers an children, youth adoption and family adoption reunion registry.
Healing Families Dismembered By Adoption - Reunion, relationships, and natural parents adopting-back the children they had children, youth and family lost to infant-adoption.
The Adoption History Project - A digital public history resource, profiling people, organizations, topics, and issues studies that shaped modern American adoption theory and practice.
New Directions in Adoption - Stop Tearing Family Apart - Argues many current adoption practices are unethical. Articles, policy positions, issues and links.

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