Military Families and Adoption: A Bulletin for Professionals What are the benefits of using military families as adoptive resources for children? Several Adoption Opportunities grants (demonstration projects funded by the Children's Bureau) in the early 1990s demonstrated the benefits of placing children with military families. They found the military to...
Should We Photolist Waiting Children?
Internet photolistings of children waiting for adoptive parents raise challenging ethical issues. As of September 2000, 75,000 children in foster care were free for adoption - a number that continues to grow each year, placing greater demands on child welfare systems to find adoptive families....
In the Best Interests of Whom? And yet another child, "Baby" Richard from Illinois, has fallen prey to the inadequacies of a system that is supposed to protect him as he innocently pursues his life, liberty and happiness. We are beside ourselves in collective impotent outrage. Children-as-chattel is only supposed to feature in...
Recruiting Adoptive Families In this section, you can read newsletters and articles that can help you enhance your existing efforts to find and keep adoptive families. Resources are sorted into the following three categories: *strategies-articles that explain techniques and ideas for recruiting and retaining adoptive families...
One Child, Two Children, and Three . . . Oh My! May 25, 2011, 6:31 pm
People frequently ask me what on earth possessed us to adopt our youngest three children all at once. Fortunately, they typically ask this when they are all being self-controlled and irrepressibly cute. It's probably a very good thing they tactfully do not ask when all three are having a public...
What are photo listings? July 9, 2007, 8:14 am
Each state has a photo listing of the children who are available for adoption in their state. You may find them on the website for your individual county or state special needs adoption website, but there are other photo listings as well.
Photo listings are small biographies, along with a...
What Does Not Parenting My Special Needs Adopted Child Look Like? August 20, 2007, 5:56 am
My blog-mate, Julie, did a great post last week about parenting her special needs adopted child. In the post, Either You’re a Saint or You Asked for This, Julie talked about people thinking that she, and other adoptive parents of special needs children, are saints for parenting their special...
About the Children | Northwest Adoption Exchange
NWAE waiting child profile galleries allow families looking to adopt a chance to learn more about Northwest foster children who need permanent homes.
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Helps to connect families who want to adopt with children. Includes free photo listing and information.
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