DMOZ - Home: Family: Adoption

Adoption information and resources, message boards, email communities, and links to adoption professionals. Includes special sections for both birthmothers and adoptive parents.

About.com: Adoption

Provides access to thousands of resources addressing all aspects of adoption. Includes coverage of international adoption issues.

Adopting.com

Listing of adoption resources on the Internet, organized in topical categories.

Adoption Council of Canada

Dedicated to finding homes for Canada's waiting children. Includes news, publications, legislation, events, research, viewpoints, and newsletters.

The Adoption Guide

Consumer protection and advocacy for adopting families, international or domestic. Site features news, articles, and resources.

Adoption InterLink UK

General adoption information, articles, links to related resources, and notice board.

Adoption Learning Partners

Offers web-based educational courses for all members of the adoption triad. Includes course descriptions and a mailing list.

Adoption Open

Features information about workshops and support groups, profiles of families hoping to adopt (from specific agencies) and resources.

Adoption Web Ring

A public service ring dedicated to the best interests of adoption triad members.

Adoption: A New Beginning

A Christian adoption resource center, with services for birthmothers and adoptive parents.

Adoptioninformation.com

General information and resources.

AdoptUSKids

National photo listing service for children awaiting adoption across the United States.

American RadioWorks - Finding Home

A series of written stories, as well as a one-hour audio broadcast, which explore fifty years of experience with international adoption by Americans. Additional materials include photojournals, interviews, audio diaries, and supplementary stories.

BellaOnline: Adoption

Presents articles about a variety of adoption related topics.

British Agencies for Adoption & Fostering

London-based charity with offices in Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland and England. Offers resources for those wishing to adopt and related professionals. Includes membership details, news, legal details and directory of agencies.

California Children and Family Services: Adoptions

Articles and FAQs about adopting a child, becoming a foster parent, adopting a foster child, adoptees and birth parents, and services for adopted children.

Canada Adopts

Features a range of adoption-related information. Includes a message board, Waiting Parents Registry, list of famous adoptions, calendar of events, and links to Canadian resources, including agencies and support groups.

Center for Adoption Policy

Provides research, analysis, advice and education to practitioners and the public about legislation and practices governing domestic and inter-country adoption in the United States and the rest of the world. Includes publications and information about projects.

Child & Family Services

Provides former Michigan members (adult adoptees, birth parents, adult siblings, and adoptive parents) with post-adoption services and intermediary search services.

Children's Home Society

Not for profit organization that provides adoption and birth parent services.

Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute

Information for adoption professionals: research, policy, and practice.

Families for Private Adoption

Non-profit volunteer organization advocating and encouraging private (non-agency) adoption. Meetings held in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area.

Fostering or Adopting Children in Need

Information about transitional residence and fostering of troubled children.

Lund

Providing services for young women who are pregnant and parenting, families with young children and adoptive families.

National Adoption Center

Portal to photo listings and resources, including chat, online courses, and articles.

North American Council on Adoptable Children

Post-adoptive articles and a "How to Adopt" section which provides an overview of issues and steps to take when considering domestic adoption through the foster care system.

PACT: An Adoption Alliance

Adoption-related services for children of color, their birthparents, and their adoptive parents.

State Mailing Lists

Directory of adoption related mailing lists across the United States.

Long Haul Productions: Dear Birth Mother

Suzanne, a single woman in her forties, after years of trying to become pregnant, decided to adopt an African-American baby. This is the story of her adoption quest. [29:00 streaming audio broadcast] (January 01, 2005)

NPR : The Many Faces of Adoption

About 1.6 million American families have adopted children. In more and more cases, they are open adoptions. Four families share their stories. [Each story approximately 5 minutes in duration.] (December 24, 2004)