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Our Favorite Websites for Adoptive Parents
As those of you who are adoptive parents already know, and those of you who are about to become parents will soon discover, adoption is a lifelong journey. This collection of sites can help make that journey smoother, more interesting... and more fun!
Where It All Begins
This is the mama of all adoption sites. Write a letter to prospective birthmothers. Ask an adoption expert. Find out how to adopt, whether it's from Colorado or Cambodia. Explore ways to celebrate National Adoption Month. Learn what you never want to say to an adoptive parent, an adoptee, or a birthparent. Join a message board or chat. Track down an adoption attorney or agency. Buy books, magazines, greeting cards, and videos. Whew! If it's about adoption, it's probably here - or these folks will tell you where to find it.
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What Do You Want to Know?
So you're a traditional two-parent family? Single? Gay? A U.S. citizen living overseas? Assigned to the military? Sorting through the pros and cons of open adoption? Trying to figure out if you can take the adoption tax credit? Wondering how on earth you start the process to adopt internationally? Thinking of adopting across racial lines? Unsure how to choose the right therapist for your child?

No problem! A service of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Administration for Children and Families, the National Adoption Information Clearinghouse addresses all those questions - and more - with fact sheets, articles, abstracts, statistics, and links.
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Labor of Love
This site has "Mom" written all over it: highly practical, but with a soft, emotional side. OK, OK, Dads are welcome, too!

Comeunity's "hows, whys, and whats" of adoption include a list of international adoption clinics, tips on handling misbehaving toddlers and restless sleepers, information on how to adopt (with an emphasis on special medical needs and on adoption from Vietnam), book reviews, photolistings, and a list of e-mail support groups. But it's the poetry and the essays that will make your heart sing or your tears run...
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The Older Child
Adopting a child who is 2, or 8, or 12, takes courage, patience, love, and a sense of humor. This Web site by a single mom who adopted a 6-year-old girl from Russia is the best place on the Web to find out all about the joys and tribulations of welcoming an older child into your home. Tons of good basic information and links on older child adoption, plus resources on attachment concerns and single parenting.
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Forums and Discussion Groups for Adoptive Parents
The Adoption List
This community of adoptive parents, birthparents, adoptees, and adoption professionals is one of the few active lists devoted to general adoption issues, ranging from how open an adoption should be to whether middle-aged parents should adopt infants. You're more likely to feel at ease in this nice but outspoken group if you're an experienced adoptive parent than if you're a dewy-eyed parent-to-be.
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