Abolish Adoption
Criticizes adoption as practiced in the United States as unconstitutional. Includes petition and position articles.
Adoptee Problems
Information about problems, like rejection, after finding natural parents and discussion of problems associated with being adopted.
Adoptee's Right to Know
Promoting the right of adoptees to learn about their birthfamilies. Search, legal, and activist resources.
Adoption Clubhouse
A resource for adopted children and their parents. Contains sections such as "Speak Out," which features writings from children about adoption, as well as sections on famous peopl…
American Adoption Congress
International network of individuals and organizations committed to adoption reform. Includes a profile, news, list of board members, legislation information, and membership detail…
Bastard Nation
Focused on equal access for adoptees to their original birth certificates, adoptee dignity, combating negative stereotypes of adoptees, and providing a forum for the wide spectrum …
Center For Family Connections
Offers training, education, consultation, advocacy, and clinical treatment to families touched by adoption, foster care, kinship, and guardianship.
Families Without Borders
Focuses on issues associated with inter-country adoptions from Guatemala and concerns with UNICEF policies.
Healing Families Dismembered By Adoption
Reunion, relationships, and natural parents adopting-back the children they had lost to infant-adoption.
National Adoption Day
A collective national (USA) effort to raise awareness of the children in foster care waiting to find permanent families.
National Resource Center for Special Needs Adoption
Provides training, consultation, and informational materials for professionals, organizations, and parents regarding special needs adoptions.
NPR : Barriers to Adoption for Communities of Color
Ed Gordon and guests explores overcoming obstacles to adoption in USA communities of color. [11:46 streaming audio broadcast]
NPR : Scams Plague Efforts to Adopt Beyond Borders
Michael Montgomery of American RadioWorks reports on problems with adoptions of children from the former Soviet Union. [17:10 streaming audio broadcast]
Origins Canada
Supporting people separated by adoption and asking for an inquiry into alleged illegal and exploitive adoption practices.
OriginsUSA
Focuses on past practices for obtaining children for adoption and the harm they caused some birthmothers. Includes aims and objectives, questionnaire, and list of state contacts.
The Adoption History Project
A digital public history resource, profiling people, organizations, topics, and studies that shaped modern American adoption theory and practice.
The ALMA Society
Advocates for the right of adopted persons to know the truth of their origin. Offers an adoption reunion registry.
The Search Institute Report - Growing Up Adopted
"New Study Identifies Strengths Of Adoptive Families."