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- A Westernized Adoptee
Discussion forum to discuss the ramifications of the westernization of adoptees, both culturally and ethnically.
- Abolish Adoption
Criticizes adoption as practiced in the United States as unconstitutional. Includes petition and position articles.
- Adoptee's Right to Know
Promoting the right of adoptees to learn about their birthfamilies. Search, legal, and activist resources.
- Adoptees and Birthfamily for Open Records Nationwide (ABORN)
Adoptees rights advocacy group. Includes information about searching, reunions and adoption laws.
- Adoptees and Birthparents for Open Records Nationwide
A group of adoptees and birthparents trying to get birth records open for all adult adoptees.
- Adoptees' Caucus for Truth
Resource for individuals who support the adoptees' right to their original birth certificates. Includes a petition and links to related content.
- Adoption Fraud
Court unseals adoption records in Florida due to fraudulent black market baby broker activity. Includes Associated Press coverage.
- Adoption in the Computer Age
Discussion about how the Computer Age (or the Third Age) is revolutionizing adoption and searches. Includes information about SSDI, open records bills, the Uniform Adoption Act, search methods, recent developments, and Internet resources.
- Adoption Issues and Resources
About.com presents a survey of adoption topics and legal issues.
- Adoption: Legalized Lies
Non-profit organization working for the preservation of true families and the abolition of adoption. Includes membership information and contact details.
- 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 details.
- Americans for Open Records
Advocates the rights of birthfamilies and provides reunion resources; says adoption is slavery.
- 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 of adult adoptee experiences.
- Birthmothers Exploited By Adoption
Presenting information about the adverse effects of adoption from mothers who feel they lost their babies through coerced or forced surrender. Includes personal stories and resources.
- Birthmothers Unite
A place for birth mothers to unite, share thoughts and feelings, and receive healing on post-adoption grief issues.
- Coalition for Open Adoption Records (Ontario)
Includes news, Bill 108 and a petition.
- David's Dream
Seeks to help African American children in Colorado who are waiting to be adopted. Statistics, photos of children, and calendar.
- Effects of Institutionalization
Discussion of some of the issues related to long term effects of institutionalization on children, especially children with special needs adopted from Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.
- Ethica
Seeks to be an impartial voice for ethical adoption practices worldwide, and provides education, assistance and advocacy to the adoption community.
- Healing Dismembered Families
A discussion for exiled mothers and adopted persons.
- Hope4Kidz
Advocating, with pre-adoptive families, for the rights of children in state foster care.
- Natural Mothers United Against Lies
Promotes keeping mother and child together and is a place for mothers who lost their children to adoption to gather to share their stories and support each other.
- Open Records Debate
An examination of the issue from About.com.
- 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 Search Institute Report
A review of the Search Institute's study of adopted adolescents.
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