Adoptions & Foster Care (California)

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Regular Adoption

Facts About Adoption (CA)

Requirements for Adoption (CA)

Other Questions Often Asked About Adoptions (CA)

What Sort of Financial Arrangements Can Be Made Between The Natural Mother of a Child and The Child's Adoptive Parents? (CA)

Is It Possible To Receive Financial Assistance With An Adoption? (CA)

Do I Have Any Responsibility For The Child If I Relinquish Him/Her For Adoption By His/Her Stepparent? (CA)

Using An Adoption Agency (BBB Tips)

Adoption FAQs (Nolo.com)
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International Adoptions
Guidelines, facts and updates on how to adopt children from other countries.

Publications From The National Adoptions Clearinghouse
Facts Sheets, Statistics, Legal resources, National and International Adoptions, IRS/Tax Information, agency listings and more.

US Citizens Adopting While Living Abroad

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Foster Care

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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Specific Adoption Agencies (Links)
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Adoption 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.

National Adoption Center (800) 862-3678
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.

National Adoption Information Clearinghouse
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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Foster Care Agencies

State By State Foster Care Links
Contains FAQs & resources for foster parents, state-by-state listing of foster child organizations.

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)".

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Adoption Laws

Adoption Legal Info In All 50 States & DC (JEEP)
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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.

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Adoptees & Birth Parents

Discovering the Identity of Your Natural Parent or Child (CA)

Birthparents-I Have A Name-Now What?
Step By Step What To Do.

Searching For Birth Relatives-A Factsheet For Families

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.

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 (Consumer-SOS)

Fathers' Rights

Forms On Custody, Legitimation Visitation & Child Support

Putative Fathers Rights (All 50 States & DC)
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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Complaints & Accountability

www.theadoptionguide.com
One of the best spots on the Web for adoptive parents to check out complaints and investigative reports on agencies and facilitators.

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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)
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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.

Search Registries

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.

http://www.adoption.com/reunion
Includes lists of searching adoptees and birth parents, along chat rooms and tips on tracing family histories.

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)".

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Tracing Your Genealogy

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)".

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