Adoption

Explaining Adoption to Your Children and Family
by Child Welfare Information Gateway
Children are growing up in many different kinds of families today. Race, religion and sexual orientation are all blending together and changing the 'traditional' family structure. There are stepparent families - children being raised by a biological

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Family Wanted: Stories of Adoption
by Sara Holloway
Adoption, until recently a hidden subject, has become an open field of psychological study, policy debate, and ethical interest. Family Wanted is an honest, heartwarming, and heartbreaking collection featuring important authors personally involved in all

Adoption Assistance for Children Adopted From Foster Care
by Child Welfare Information Gateway
In every State there are children with special needs waiting in foster care for adoptive families. The most recent data estimate that 126,000 children are available to be adopted from foster care.

Types of Postadoption Services
by Child Welfare Information Gateway
The extraordinarily wide range of issues that can be addressed with postadoption services means that the services themselves must be diverse. Here are the most common types of postadoption services, including those that families have identified

Finding and Paying for Postadoption Services
by Child Welfare Information Gateway
Details about postadoption services in a particular area are available from local, State, and national information resources. Parents should call the public and private adoption agencies in their area and ask to be placed on their mailing lists for postad

Adoption Benefits Provided by Employers
by Child Welfare Information Gateway
A growing number of employers offer benefits to adoptive parents. In 1990, a survey by Hewitt Associates found that only 12 percent of employers surveyed offered some kind of adoption benefits; by 1995, the proportion had climbed to 23 percent.