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Regular Adoption
Foster Care
Regular
Adoption
Health & Human Services Resource Guide (Pennsylvania)
State Wide Directory of Social Services including:
Using
An Adoption Agency (BBB Tips)
Adoption
FAQs (Nolo.com)
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Publications
From The National Adoptions Clearinghouse
Fact
sheets, Statistics,
Legal resources, National and International Adoptions, IRS/Tax Information,
agency listings and more.
International
Adoptions
Guidelines, facts and updates on how to adopt children from other countries.
US Citizens Adopting While Living Abroad
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Adoption Laws
Specific
Agencies
Complaints
& Accountability
Fathers' Rights
Foster Parent Adoption: What Parents Should Know
North American Council On Adoptable Children
Tells how to adopt children in foster care.
State By State
Foster Care Links
Contains FAQs & resources for foster parents, state-by-state listing of foster child organizations.
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Adoption Laws
Specific
Agencies
Complaints
& Accountability
Specific
Adoption Agencies (Links)
Adoption
Agencies
Foster Care Agencies
USA
Adoption Resources By State
Provides state-by-state listing of adoption agencies and lawyers.
Adoption
And Finding Your Birth Parents (All 50 States & DC)
Adopting Abroad
(The Global Adoption Network)
This
unique alliance of adoption agencies has developed special procedures that allow them to work together using the same
resources abroad. By sharing their resources, these agencies reduce competition and, consequently, the cost of international adoptions.
International
Adoption Agencies
Adoption.com
Offers community education, recruits and prepares families for the adoption
process, matches children with approved parents, supervises adoption placement,
and coordinates post placement services.
The
National Council For Adoption (202) 328-1200
Association of attorneys and agencies promoting domestic and international
adoption. They also will guide
prospective adoptive parents through the process and pitfalls.
Adopting in the US. This service brings children online through photographs and descriptions and
offers a wealth of information that will help you learn more about adoption.
As part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the clearinghouse
lists adoption agencies, experts, literature, laws and crisis pregnancy centers
among other things. For $10 you can
receive a 115 page book called "Adoption Guide To The Internet" which
lists over 1000 adoption related Web sites.
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FAQs
& Tips
Adoption Laws
Complaints
& Accountability
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State By State
Foster Care Links
Contains FAQs & resources for foster parents, state-by-state listing of foster child organizations.
United Way Help
Line
Choose
your state, select your city, and look up help agencies galore!!! Their stellar search engine can lead you to any social service topic you can
think of. Just type in the
words "Children and (the name of your topic)".
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FAQs
& Tips
Adoption Laws
Complaints
& Accountability
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Adoption
Legal Info In All 50 States & DC (JEEP)
Scroll down for legal information and government and non-profit help in your
state.
Adoption Statutes (All 50 States & Territories)
Links to just about every adoption law on the state and federal level and has key court rulings.
International
Adoptions
Guidelines, facts and updates on how to adopt children from other countries.
Publications
From The National Adoptions Clearinghouse
Fact
sheets, Statistics,
Legal resources, National and International Adoptions, IRS/Tax Information,
agency listings and more.
http://www.adopting.com
Comprehensive listing of Internet resources on how to adopt a child.
It lists everything from adopting support groups and bulletin boards to
photos of children seeking adoption and information on the rights of adoptees.
For
More Help See
Fathers' Rights
FAQs
& Tips
Complaints
& Accountability
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Adoptees
& Birth Parents
Birthparents-I Have A Name-Now What?
Step By Step What To Do. See Also
People Search (Consumer-SOS)
National Find
Family Registry For People with Disabilities
Open to people seeking each other even though just bits of information are
available.
May help reunite those who lost touch with family members with disabilities for
other reasons too, like divorce, foster care or adoption, personal problems or
misfortune.
Searching For Birth Relatives-A Factsheet For Families
Concerned United Birthparents
(800) 822-2777
National support and search organization for those affected by adoption.
Search Registries Reuniting Adoptees & Their Birthparents
(Consumer-SOS)
Tracing Your Genealogy
Forms On Custody, Legitimation Visitation & Child Support (Consumer-SOS)
Select your state and scroll down to adoption/putative fathers. Summary of a putative father's right to notice of adoption or termination proceedings when the child is
relinquished for adoption at birth or shortly thereafter.
This summary includes statutes addressing voluntary declaration of paternity requirements.
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Adoption Laws
FAQs
& Tips
Complaints
& Accountability
Child
Support/Custody &Visitation
Complaints
& Accountability
www.theadoptionguide.com
For adoptive parents to check out complaints and investigative reports on agencies and facilitators.
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Adoption Laws
FAQs
& Tips
Lawyers, Courts, & Self Help
Adoptees
Internet Mailing List Home Page
Provides a centralized e-mail address so that adoptees can exchange information. Every message sent to the list goes to all active members.
http://www.adopting.org/
Has information on agencies, attorneys, books, articles and adoption-related
cards and gifts.
Adoption
Info In All 50 states & DC (JEEP)
Scroll down for legal information and government and non-profit help in your
state.
Directory Of Women's Groups By
Subject & State (All 50 States & DC)
Use their search engine to locate over 9000 feminists groups and help agencies.
http://www.adopting.com
Comprehensive listing of Internet resources on how to adopt a child.
It lists everything from adopting support groups and bulletin boards to
photos of children seeking adoption and information on the rights of adoptees.
The
International Soundex Reunion Registry (702)
882-7755
This mutual consent registry provides free help to anyone separated from a blood
relative by adoption, divorce or war. If
the agency gets a match, it will put both parties together.
Adoptees
& Birthparents
Site helps reunite adoptees looking for their birth parents and birth parents
seeking children they put up for adoption.
It includes a state by state list of adoptees and birth parents who are
conducting such searches.
National Find
Family Registry For People with Disabilities
Open to people seeking each other even though just bits of information are
available.
May help reunite those who lost touch with family members with disabilities for
other reasons too, like divorce, foster care or adoption, personal problems or
misfortune.
http://www.adoption.com/reunion
Includes lists of searching adoptees and birth parents, along chat rooms and
tips on tracing family histories.
Choose
your state, select your city, and look up help agencies galore!!!
Their stellar search engine can lead you to any social service topic you can
think of. Just type in the
words "Children and (the name of your topic)".
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The following links may help you
trace your family tree to your ancient ancestors.
www.usgenweb.org
Volunteers at this grass-roots
site are transcribing genealogical data previously buried in musty libraries and
county courthouses. Pending projects include a tombstone database and the
transcription of all pension related materials from wars before 1900.
www.rootsweb.com
The grandfather of genealogy
sites hosts the oldest e-mail list, ROOTS-L.
It's still the best place for rookies to find others researching shared
surnames.
www.familysearch.org
This easy to use database,
managed by the Mormon Church, seems most helpful if you're of British or Finnish
descent.
www.cyndislist.com
Cyndi Howells of Puyallup, Wash.,
maintains this portal linking to tens of thousands of sites.
www.nara.gov/genealogy
A guide to government records
that are useful to genealogists, from the National Archives and Records
Administration.
www.afrigeneas.com
Databases, discussion groups, and other tools for African-Americans.
www.jewishgen.org
Similar content for those of
Jewish descent.
United
Way Help Line (For All 50 States, DC & Puerto Rico)
Choose
your state, select your city, and look up help agencies galore!!!
Their stellar search engine can lead you to any social service topic you can
think of. Just type in the
words "Children and (the name of your topic)".
For
More See People Search
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