![]() Birthmother Online Support Groups Articles and studies about adoption A list of our prospective adopting families with photo's and links to their adoption web sites. All of the families on our site have a completed homestudy completed by a licensed adoption agency Listings of adoption related organizations, open adoption agencies, facilitators, lawyers and professionals for birthparents, adoptive families, and adoptees. A list of adoption related services and products How and why we started our web site, and our own open adoption journey Contact Information Feedback forms. A Directory and listing of all of the catagories and pages on our site (definition of adoption terms) List of adoption legal terms and language. Support links to goverment adoption sites. A list of open adoption workshops, support groups, and seminars occurring nationwide for adoptive families, adoptee's and birthparent's Instructions on... How adoptive parent's can get listed with us Building and Hositing Your Adoption Site How to become a featured family How to become a sponsored link A list of adoption reading materialfor.. Open Adoption Birthmothers Adoptive Parent's Childrens Books Adoptees Interracial Adoption Gay Parenting and Adoption Special Needs Adoption (definition of adoption terms) List of adoption legal terms and language. Support links to goverment adoption sites. The Information on this page was provided by The National Clearinghouse on Child Abuse and Neglect. ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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| Birthmother Support Online YWCA Mentoring Program Adoption Crossroads Insight Adoptee, Birthparent Association Dawn's Birthmother Birthmother Support Group Meetings A list of open adoption support groups, occurring nationwide for birthparent's Online Chat Adoption Triad Chat Room YahoohBirthmother Support Group MSN Birthmother Support Group Organizations & Foundations for Birth Families American Adoption Congress- Council for Equal Rights in Adoption Bastard Nation Dave Thomas Foundation Voices of Open Records PACT Cyndi's List NAIC American Adoption Congress Insight Birthmother Books and Articles Books for Birthmothers Tapestry Books & Gifts Adopt Shop Amazon Books Our List of recommended reading on adoption A list of adoption reading materialfor.. Open Adoption Birthmothers Adoptive Parent's Childrens Books Adoptees Interracial Adoption Gay Parenting and Adoption Special Needs Adoption Poetry Comeunity Voices from the heart ADOPTION PROFESSIONALS Adoption Facilitation Cooperative Adoption Adoption Lawyers Adam & Romer Law Offices Adoption Agencies Adoption Connection REFERENCE BOOKS Arms, Suzanne (1983). To love and let go. New York, Aldred Knopf. Arms, Suzanne (1990). Adoption: a handful of hope. New York, Aldred Knopf. Bowlby, John. (1980). Loss. New York: Basic Books. Campbell, Lee (1979). Understanding the birthparent. Concerned United Birthparents. Colgrove, M.; Bloomfield, Harold H.; and McWilliams, P. (1976). How to survive the loss of a love. New York: Bantam. Fisher, Florence. (1973). The search for anna fisher. New York: Fawcett Crest Books. Gediman, Judith S. and Brown, Linda P. (1991). Birth bond: reunions between birthparents and adoptees-- what happens after... Far Hills, NJ: New Horizon Press. |
SEARCH AND SUPPORT GROUPS AND ORGANIZATIONS Adoptee-Birthparent Support Network (ABSN) Adoptee-Birthparent Support Network (ABSN) McLean, VA Phone: (202) 628-4111 Adoption Triangle Ministries (ATM) Box 1860 Cape Coral, FL 33910 Phone (813) 542-1342 ALMA Society - The ALMA Society, Inc. P.O.Box 85 Denville, N.J. 07834 Almasociety.org Jeanie M.Jackson,President/Registrar American Adoption Congress P.O. Box 42730 Washington, D.C. 20015 (202) 483-3399 Concerned United Birth Parents, Inc. (CUB) 2000 Walker Street Des Moines, IA 50317 Phone: (515) 263-9558 board@cubirthparents.org Independent Search Consultants (ISC) P.O. Box 10192 Costa Mesa, CA 92627 International Soundex Reunion Registry (ISRR) P.O. Box 2312 Carson City, NV 89702 Phone: (702) 882-6270 National Adoption Assistance Center (NAAC) 444 Lincoln Blvd., #107 Venice, CA 90291 Phone: (612) 636-7031 Birth Fathers and their Adoption Experiences Virtually all literature about birth parents of adopted children has focused on mothers. In this pioneering study, Gary Clapton gives us a fresh perspective: he recounts the experiences of thirty birth fathers separated from their children at birth. Link Origins P.O. Box 444 East Brunswick, NJ 08816 Phone: (201) 251-5411 Parent Finders Capitol Region Box 5211, Station F Ottawa, Ontario K2C 3H5 Canada Parenting Resources 250 El Camino Real, Suite 111 Tustin, CA 92680 Phone: (714) 669-8100 PACER Post Adoption Center for Education and Research 2255 Ygnacio Valley Road, Suite L Walnut Creek, CA 94598 ARTICLES & PAPERS |
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| References Arms, Suzanne (1983). To love and let go. New York, Aldred Knopf. Arms, Suzanne (1990). Adoption: a handful of hope. New York, Aldred Knopf. Berman, L.C.; Bufferd, R.K. (1986). "Family Treatment to address loss in adoptive families. Social Casework, Vol. 67, No. 1, Jan. 1986. Chapman, C.; Dorner, P.; Silber, K.; Winterberg, T.W. (1986). "Meeting the needs of the adoption triangle through open adoption: the birthmother." Child and Adolescent Social Work, Vol. 3, No. 4, Winter, 1986. Deykin, E.Y.; Campbell, L.; and Patti, P. (1984). "The post-adoption experience of surrendering parents." American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 54:2, April, 1984. Gediman, J.S. and Brown L.P. (1991). Birth bond: reunions birthparents and adoptees--what happens after... Far Hills, NJ: New Horizon Press. Pannor, R.; Baran, A; and Sorosky, Arthur D. (1978). "Birth parents who relinquish babies for adoption revisited." Family process. Vol. 17, No. 3. September, 1979, pp. 329-37. Panuthos, C. and Romeo C. (1984). Ended beginnings: healing childbearing losses. New York: Bergin and Garvey. Roles, P. (1989). Saying goodbye to a baby; volume I-- the birth parents' guide to loss and grief in adoption. Washington, DC: Child Welfare League of America. Roles, P. (1989). Saying goodbye to a baby; volume II- the birth parents' guide to loss and grief in adoption. Washington, DC: Child WelfareLeague of America. Rosenberg, E. (1992). The adoption life cycle. New York: The Free Press, A division of Macmillan, Inc. Stiffler, L.H. (1991). "Adoption's impact on birthmothers: 'Can a mother forget her child?'" Journal of Psychology and Christianity, 1991, Vol 10, No. 3, 249-259. Silverman, P. (1981) The grief of the birthmother... helping women cope with grief. Beverly Hills, CA: Sage Publications. Sorosky, A.; Baran, A.; Pannor, R. (1984) (rev.ed.). The adoption triangle. New York: Doubleday. |
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