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Adoption Awareness

Library Online Resources | Library Materials | Kids & Teens | Web Sites

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Library Online Resources

 

CountryWatch

Are you thinking about international adoption? CountryWatch contains political, economic, business, demographic and geographic information as well as news and maps for the recognized countries of the world.  

 

Heritage Quest
Use this database to trace your roots.

 

Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center This resource includes viewpoint articles, topic overviews, statistics, links to Web sites, and full-text magazine and newspaper articles on adoption and other social issues.

 

Orlando Sentinel
Search the Orlando Sentinel for articles on adoption from 1985 to present.

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Web Sites

 

Adopt America Network
A volunteer network to help families and children waiting to be adopted.

 

Adoption.com
This site covers a range of topics  from connecting children with families who would like to adopt to assisting women with their pregnancies.

 

Adoption Resources
A great source of information for adopting parents, people searching for birth parents, foster parents, or adoption professionals.

 

Independent Adoption Center
This organization is a non-profit, full-service adoption agency. It mainly focuses on domestic infant adoptions.

 

North American Council on Adoptable Children
This group concentrates on advocacy and educating people on the plight of children who are less likely to be adopted.

 

Wednesday’s Child: Children Available for Adoption
A Web site that helps find permanent adoptive homes for children in foster care.

 

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Library Materials

 

Adoption Books
Guides, stories, and legal information on adoption.

 

Adoption Biographies
Personal stories and memoirs from people who have adopted or been adopted.

 

Adoption Movies

Watch heartwarming stories about families who bring other children into their lives.

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Kids & Teens

 

Library Online Resources

Read the Books

Try this resource! Just enter a keyword search for "adoption" and you will find interesting books on that topic. Find out what to put on your list to read next!

 

Library Materials

Books about Adoption

Titles include picture books, chapter books, and juvenile and young adult fiction.

 

A New Family

Check out these fiction and

non-fiction books about adoption awareness for kids!

 

Web Sites

Adoption Clubhouse

Kids enjoy fun games and more with the Adoption Clubhouse, a part of the National Adoption Center.

 

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