1. POZ - January/February #161 : Adoption Issues - By Glenn Townes POZ chronicles the HIV epidemic, both in the States and overseas. Supports AIDS healthcare providers and empowers patients through publications, seminars and educational programs. http://www.poz.com/articles/hiv_adoption_issues_2427_17795.shtml

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2. Post-Adoption Issues PostAdoption Issues - Adopting Family Resources was created by the caring people at Adoption Services to help you find everything from financial grants from the government if http://www.adoptingfamilyresources.com/adopting/adopting_post_adoption_issues.ht

Home Quick Find Adoption Choices Types of Adoption ... Suggestions Post Adoption Issues Many people think of the issues that take place before and during an adoption, but fail to realize that it is important to anticipate and understand the issues that may come up after you have brought a child into your family. Child Development Issues for Adopting Families An adopting family and the adopted child face developmental issues and concerns that are different than those faced by a child that has been biologically born into the family. Explaining Adoption This area addresses the issue of adoption, defining it, explaining adoption to the child and to others, and dealing with the feelings that arise. This resource area looks at three areas: 1) How adoption impacts a youngster in school; 2) Specific educational problems that are common to adopted children; and 3) Ways to help students, teachers, principals, and other school personnel to become more sensitive to adoption issues. Parenting Parenting explores nutritional issues with infants and looks at the effects of adoption on adolescent development and behavior. Therapy Therapy information for adopting families : Timely intervention by a professional skilled in adoption issues can often prevent issues common to adoption from becoming more serious problems. Finding the right therapist can often be difficult.

3. Adoption Issues - Adoption Information Resource Center Support Services Articles and resources to help families of adopted children or parents relating to many of the issues surrounding adoption. Here you will find support for parents and children http://www.adoptionissues.org/

var phoneTrackSelector = 'span.phone'; Resources for Families with Adopted Children For Boarding Schools Specializing in Adoption Issues, Call Adoption Articles Index Adoption Resources Adoption Directory Adoption Blog ... Adoption Issues Many times, people associate adoption with a childless couple and a newborn baby. They don't think about all the emotional issues that surround an adopted child and adoptive parents. Families with adopted children face different challenges than those with just biological children. Even adopted children who feel positive about their adoption experience, can face a variety of emotions as they become teenagers. Typical rites of passage may have additional facets for adopted adolescents. They may question their identity and value, suffer from low self-esteem, and experience grief and loss. While some adopted teens are able to work through their feelings on their own or with their friends and family, others need professional help to deal with the range of emotions that arise. Adoptive parenting can be more complex than parenting biological children can. Adoptive parents face unique challenges raising adopted children. While it is important for traditional parents to keep the lines of communication open with their children, it is even more crucial for adoptive parents, especially as adopted children become teenagers. Adopted teens will have additional issues to face as they mature into adults.

4. Adoption Issues From A Strengths Perspective National newsmagazine committed to enhancing the entire social work profession by exploring its difficult issues, new challenges, proud past, and current successes. http://www.socialworktoday.com/archive/070708p34.shtml

Subscribe Today for only $14.99! Subscribe Current Issue Article Archive Digital Editions ... writers' guidelines July/August 2008 Issue Adoption Issues From a Strengths Perspective By Deborah H. Siegel, PhD, LICSW, DCSW, ACSW Social Work Today Vol. 8 No. 4 P. 34 Birth parents, adoptive parents, and adoptees face predictable crises given the life-changing nature of this event. Idealized or deficit approaches don’t work, but a strengths perspective does. Sam is a bright, energetic, enthusiastic 12-year-old boy. His mom and dad, Mary and Mack, love him dearly and are earnest, skilled parents who conscientiously create a nurturing home. Sam thrives; he has a best friend next door, gets Bs in school, attends weekly religious school and prayer services, walks his dog every day after school, and enjoys riding his bike and playing his electric guitar. He and his parents often go on hikes, attend sporting events, and take day trips as a family or with friends. It appears that Sam is doing well because he is adopted. Idealized and Deficit Views These two pictures of Sam reflect conflicting perspectives on adoption. Both views are highly relevant to the work of social work clinicians, administrators, policy makers, and researchers, as these views shape adoption policies, laws, and clinical practice. One perspective sees adoption in somewhat idealized, romantic terms. The second view is that adoption goes hand in hand with difficulties. Understanding the biases embedded in these perspectives and how to manage them in social work practice is key to effective service delivery.

5. From An Adoptee's Point Of View... Information on coercive adoption from a native adoptee. http://whisperingeagle.tripod.com/whisperingeagleshome/id1.html

Build your own FREE website at Tripod.com Share: Facebook Twitter Digg reddit document.write(lycos_ad['leaderboard']); document.write(lycos_ad['leaderboard2']); WHISPERING EAGLES HOMEPAGE Home Native American Indian Veterans From an Adoptee's Point of View... Beadwork and Crafts ... Webrings FROM AN ADOPTEE'S POINT OF VIEW When I was born I was adopted as an infant. I was raised in a normal white home, and had no contact with my culture or spiritual feelings until I was much older. I spent my childhood, as many children do, trying to do what my parents expected. I recall my parents constantly telling me that I was adopted because they loved me more than my own family had. As the years went by, I soon realized that I was not where I belonged and not doing what I was happy with. In 1992, I began a search for my biological family, and surprisingly to me I was talking to my oldest sister within 45 minutes. I moved home in 1998, and have been getting to know many of my new relatives, and enjoying the area and richness of life here. Although reuniting with a family that lost me so many years ago there have been rough times and good times, but it has been worth it to me. I felt like I needed to know where I came from and who I was, now that I am home I find that there is nothing missing anymore in my heart.

6. Lifelong Issues In Adoption Lifelong Issues in Adoption. By Deborah N. Silverstein and Sharon Kaplan. Adoption is a lifelong, intergenerational process which unites the triad of birth families, adoptees and http://www.fairfamilies.org/newsfromfair/1999/99LifelongIssues.htm

Lifelong Issues in Adoption By Deborah N. Silverstein and Sharon Kaplan Adoption is a lifelong, intergenerational process which unites the triad of birth families, adoptees and adoptive families forever. Adoption, especially of adolescents, can lead to both great joy and tremendous pain. Recognizing the core issues in adoption is one intervention that can assist triad members and professionals working in adoption better to understand each other and the residual effects of the adoption experience. Adoption triggers seven lifelong or core issues for all triad members, regardless of the circumstances of the adoption or the characteristics of the participants: Loss Rejection Guilt and shame Grief Identity Intimacy Mastery/control (Silverstein and Kaplan 1982) Clearly, the specific experiences of triad members vary, but there is a commonality of affective experiences which persists throughout the individual�s or family�s life cycle development. The recognition of these similarities permits dialogue among triad members and allows those professionals with whom they interface to intervene in proactive as well as curative ways. The presence of these issues does not indicate, however, that either the individual or the institution of adoption is pathological or pseudopathological. Rather, these are expected issues that evolve logically out of the nature of adoption. Before the recent advent of open and cooperative practices, adoption had been practiced as a win/lose or adversarial process. In such an approach, birth families lose their child in order for the adoptive family to gain a child. The adoptee was transposed from one family to another with time-limited and, at times, short-sighted consideration of the child�s long-term needs. Indeed, the emphasis has been on the needs of the adults � on the needs of the birth family not to parent and on the needs of the adoptive family to parent. The ramifications of this attitude can be seen in the number of difficulties experienced by adoptees and their families over their lifetime.

7. ISSUES OF ADOPTION Facilitators Laws Parental Rights Relinquishment Time to Revoke Fraud Scams Interstate Adoption Issues to Consider Adoption Language Attachment Bonding Disabled Parents http://www.adoption.org/adopt/issues-of-adoption.php

Pregnant? Adopting Parenting Reunite ... Foster Top Resources for: Community Professionals Shop Library ISSUES OF ADOPTION Issues to Consider Before Adopting - Infertility Language Attachment Breastfeeding - Attachment, Car http://adopting.adoption.com/adopt/issues-to-consider.html in Texas Want to adopt? Pregnant? ... Issues For Parents http://parenting.adoption.com/parents/issues-for-adoptive-parents.html Issues for Adopted Children http://parenting.adoption.com/parents/issues-for-adopted-children.html Legal Issues in Adoption - Children, Costs, Important, Laws, Legal, State, Activities, American, Att ... to revoke consent Be sure to check Adoption Laws and Legal Issues Getting Started with Adoption How Many People Choose Adoption? Is Adoption Right for You? Adoption Self-Assessment Quiz Which Children Are Available for Adoption? Sibling Groups Who Can Adopt? Qualification Requirements for Adopting Parents Your Adoption Options Agency Adoption Private (or Independent) Adoption Options in Independent Adoption Adoption Facilitators International Adoption http://adopting.adoption.com/child/legal-issues-in-adoption.html

8. Lifelong Issues In Adoption - Discusses seven lifelong issues that the birthfamily, adoptive family, and adoptee must all face. http://library.adoption.com/articles/lifelong-issues-in-adoption.html

November is National Adoption Awareness Month! Find new ways to celebrate on our National Adoption Month Calendar featuring daily activities. See all Categories See all Categories Adopting International Pregnancy ... For Adoption Professionals Current Page Adoption Articles Adoption Forums Adoption Blogs Adoption News ... Find a Professional document.getElementById('ncCategory_nojs').style.display='none'; document.getElementById('ncCategory').style.display='block'; Home For Adoption Professionals Adoption and Adoptive Families: A Bibliography Lifelong Issues in Adoption ... Resources and Information advertisement Texas - Select One - Learn More Looking to Adopt? Pregnant? Waiting Families Adoption - TX advertisement Adoption Blogs Adoptees Birth Parents Adoptive Parenting ... Foster Care Lifelong Issues in Adoption e-mail Currently 4.3/5 Stars. You may use the stars on the left to rate and leave feedback for the current article. No registration is required. Waiting for 5 votes of 5 stars ( votes) Please fill out the following optional information before submitting your rating: E-mail: Comment: Adoption is a lifelong, intergenerational process that unites the triad of birth families, adoptees, and adoptive families forever. Adoption, especially of adolescents, can lead to both great joy and tremendous pain. Recognizing the core issues in adoption is one intervention that can assist triad members and professionals working in adoption better to understand each other and the residual effects of the adoption experience.

9. Austin Travis Co MHMR A second class of issues to be addressed involves deciding what to say about the adoption to family, friends, coworkers, and the child him or herself. http://resources.atcmhmr.com/poc/view_doc.php?type=doc&id=10060&cn=11

10. Six Nations Adoptees Search and support for adoptees, birth parents and birth siblings of the Iroquois Nations. http://bodhipines.com/6nations/

11. What Adoption Issues To Expect At Different Ages (from Infancy-adult) - Please fill out the following optional information before submitting your rating Email Comment http://www.adopting.org/expect.html

12. Webkinz™ - Account And Adoption Issues Webkinz the stuffed animal that comes alive online in Webkinz World. Keep your pet happy and healthy and build a home for it with our cool furniture. Play online with your http://www.webkinz.com/us_en/faq_account.html

13. MY FIRST NATIONS PAGE Information for native adoptees searching for birth family, as well as adoption and genealogy links. http://members.tripod.com/~SkyatDawn/index-4.html

Build your own FREE website at Tripod.com Share: Facebook Twitter Digg reddit document.write(lycos_ad['leaderboard']); document.write(lycos_ad['leaderboard2']); Updated August 12, 1999 IN MEMORY OF CARIBOU This page is being constructed to help other native adoptees and birthparents hoping to find to lost ones. As information becomes available it will be added. Any suggestions are greatly appreciated. This is an ongoing process, but there is little information out there to help native adoptees, especially the ones who are alone and do not know where or how to start a search. If you have made it this far, you are not alone, there are people out there who are willing and able to help. It is sometimes hard to reach out to others you do not know. The fear of rejection keeps us from being together. It is hard, but easy paths aren't always the best ones. Everyone needs support, even if it is just someone who will listen. Noone has all the answers, and sometimes the answers you seek can be painful. The healing journey has many up and downs.In the end, you may not find what you expected, but at least you will know the truth. I am searching for my birthbrothers. We were adopted out to different families. My brother's name is

14. NPR Personality Pens Book About Familys Adoption Experiences He also has spoken to Kiwanis, the Salvation Army and church groups. Labels international, Russia, orphanages, special_needs. Posted By Adoption Issues 1 Comment http://www.adoptionissues.org/blog/

var phoneTrackSelector = 'span.phone'; Resources for Families with Adopted Children For Boarding Schools Specializing in Adoption Issues, Call Adoption Articles Index Adoption Resources Adoption Directory Adoption Blog ... Adoption Issues Friday, October 15, 2010 NPR Personality Pens Book About Family's Adoption Experiences Baby, We Were Meant For Each Other , Simon paints a picture of family life that is intense, heart-warming and real. Source: Chicago Now Labels: international China awareness Posted By: Adoption Issues 0 Comments Wednesday, October 13, 2010 Adoptive Parent Trapped in Nepal Earlier this year, Candice Warltier traveled to Nepal to finalize her adoption of a little girl. While she was enroute to Nepal, U.S. policy regarding adoptions from that country changed, and now Candice is stuck there, and fighting for her daughter. Candice has been living in Nepal for seven weeks, unable to bring Antara [her daughter] home. She thought she would be away from her job for a month, but now the absence from her source of income is indefinite. Candice’s mother took retirement from her own job so she could go to Nepal and help out. Her mother spent a precious month in Nepal, but recently she needed to return to America to mange her own affairs." -

15. � Adoption Issues - Glitter Girl And Twinkle Toes The other day at a GG function one of the other moms said “who’s this?” and pointed to me. Twinkletoes said “mama” and the other mom said, “Do you love your mama?” http://chinaadopttalk.com/ggandtt/category/adoptionissues/

Comments ellies mom on Greeting Cards RQ on Greeting Cards MicheleH on Greeting Cards ldw4mlo on Greeting Cards feelingthejoy on Pokey in the Hokey Archive for the 'Adoption Issues' Category She loves me Wednesday, October 24th, 2007 I almost started crying right there in front of [...] Posted in Adoption Issues TwinkleToes Thursday, September 20th, 2007 Posted in Adoption Issues Monday, August 6th, 2007 Posted in Adoption Issues Sometimes life is just not fair Sunday, July 29th, 2007 I get so upset at the people who [...] Posted in Adoption Issues Harry Potter, the orphan Tuesday, July 24th, 2007 Posted in Adoption Issues Thursday, July 5th, 2007 Posted in Adoption Issues Race Issues Saturday, June 23rd, 2007 And then there were lots of questions about what she (GlitterGirl) could and could not do when we brought her [...] Posted in Adoption Issues GlitterGirl Talking about Luxuries Saturday, June 23rd, 2007 There are other things that I think we (or our kids, at least) see as necessities that are [...] Posted in Adoption Issues Fair Wednesday, June 20th, 2007 RQ: Who told you life was going to be fair?

16. Southern Manitoba First Nations Repatriation Program Reuniting First Nations adoptees (including those in long-term foster care) with their birth families. http://www.wrcfs.org/repat/

HOME CONTACT HOME About Us ... Register with Manitoba First Nations Repatriation Program. Reuniting First Nations adoptees (including those in long-term foster care) with their birth families. Welcome to the Southern Manitoba First Nations Repatriation Program web site. Reuniting First Nations Adoptees and Birth Families. The Southern Manitoba First Nations Repatriation Program (SMFNRP) is a coordinated effort of the First Nations Child and Family Services agencies and First Nations Bands of Manitoba to address the issues of treaty status adoptees'. The Repatriation Program actively searches for adoptees' and birth parents who were affected by the 'sixties scoop'. The Manitoba First Nations are convinced that only by managing their own services will the First Nations communities be able to recover a lost generation and prevent the loss of another. The Southern Manitoba First Nations Repatriation Program has gained national attention in its attempts to let our adoptees know that we did not give them away and that we are searching for them. The program has been a guest on Front Page Challenge, CBC's Witness, Unsolved Mysteries, as well as many other national / local radio programs and newspapers.

17. Adoption Ethics And Issues Resources, articles and commentaries on adoption ethics and issues http://cambodia.oggham.com/

Adoption Ethics and Issues Resources, articles and commentaries on adoption ethics and issues Chinese adoptive child finds her family in China Wednesday, January 7, 2009 January 31st, 2007 Dutch Television (Link to Original Story) This is the story of a 10 year old adopted girl named Eline, who finds her birth parents in China. The transcription as done by Mirjam follows here. “Cllick orange button with “bekijk uitzending”(watch broadcast).First part is about Dutch couple adopting second cleft-affected son.Second part is about a Dutch agency (Wereldkinderen) that provides means for Chinese foster-parents who are willing to take up severely handicapped children. Third part: Eline. Starts at 0:27:35. Eline’s A-mother is/was a volunteer at Wereldkinderen (agency) who advertises for funds during the program. Same agency is afraid that more searches will bring hazard to future adoptions from China”. Here is a translation ( thank you Mirjam ) of the interview: http://www.uitzendinggemist.nl/index.php/aflevering?aflID=3906136 click orange button with “bekijk uitzending” (watch broadcast) starts at 0:27:35 Background: in church A church in Noord-Holland (province), a couple of weeks ago. We meet Eline.

18. International Adoption Issues | LIVESTRONG.COM International Adoption Issues. Approximately onefourth of all adoptions by American parents are international adoptions, according to Dr. Spock. This means that the child http://www.livestrong.com/article/80395-international-adoption-issues/

19. Black Market Adoption Article on the illicit adoption of Navajo children. http://freepages.misc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~msroots/BMA/BMGEN3.htm

Search billions of records on Ancestry.com Boston Globe June 2, 1996 REUNION DAY AT 43, NAVAJO NATIVE FINALLY HOME Author: Royal Ford, Globe Staff TOLANI LAKE, Ariz. She stood in brilliant white sunlight, scuffed the cracked skin of the vast, parched land and stared down at the very spot where the old woman told her she had been born, right there, in a hogan that is gone, beside a field where corn once grew. The woman her family called "the old aunt" reached up with a warm, dark hand and touched her high cheekbone. "You are so like your mother," Besbah Yazzie told her. Weeping in the baked expanse of the Navajo Reservation, they hugged. Yvette Silverman Melanson, stolen along with a twin brother from her Navajo family 43 years ago, raised rich, white and Jewish in Brooklyn, was finally home. "One more of us is still out there and a whole lot more of the others," Melanson said in reference to her missing brother and thousands of other Native American children stolen from their families over the years and put on the black market for adoption . "This is not right. We have to find them. We have to find the boy." Navajo natives had come from across the reservation to welcome her home.

20. FORUM ON ADOPTION ISSUES Striking a Balance Media Reporting of Adoption Issues Wednesday, March 31 1999 Ramapo College of New Jersey http://www.adoptioninstitute.org/proed/forum99.html

Striking a Balance: Media Reporting of Adoption Issues Wednesday, March 31 1999 Ramapo College of New Jersey Mahwah, NJ Alumni Lounge, 11 am - pm Monday, April 5 1999 The College of New Jersey Ewing, NJ Brower Student Center 202 East, 2 pm - 4 pm Wednesday, April 7 1999 Rutgers, The State University New Brunswick, NJ Brower Common Rooms ABC, Department of Journalism and Mass Media, 1 pm - 3 pm Featuring: Cecilia Zalkind, Associate Director, Association for Children of New Jersey Susan Freivalds, Advisor to the US Department of State on Intercountry Adoption Madelyn Freundlich, Executive Director, The Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute Topics Include: Foster Care and Adoption Infant Adoption International Adoption Hot Topics in Adoption: Transracial Adoption The Role of Money Openness in Adoption FOSTER CARE AND ADOPTION The number of children in foster care in the United States continues to grow. At the end of Fiscal Year 1996, there were more than 500,000 children in foster care. This number represents a 79% increase over the number of children in care in 1986. Approximately 110,000 of the children in foster care will not return to their birth families and will need adoption planning services. Given current trends, it is likely that the number of children in foster care who need adoptive families will continue to increase.

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