Library Online Resources
View this resource to locate information about the country from which you are interested in adopting a child. CountryWatch contains political, economic, business, demographic, and geographic information as well as news and maps for the recognized countries of the world.
Share your heritage with your new son or daughter by using this database to trace your family history. Perhaps your ancestors served in the Revolutionary War.
This resource includes viewpoint articles, topic overviews, statistics, links to websites, and full-text magazine and newspaper articles on adoption and other social issues.
Search the Orlando Sentinel for articles on adoption from 1985 to present.
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Websites
This website is a volunteer network to help families and children waiting to be adopted. Give a child a family of his or her own.
This website covers a range of topics from connecting children with families who would like to adopt to assisting women with their pregnancies. They also provide a list of adoption professionals in Florida.
Investigate this comprehensive resource when making decisions about adoption. Find the baby to complete your family.
Check out this non-profit open adoption organization. This website mainly focuses on domestic infant adoptions.
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Mobile
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Adoption Guide
Use this free application and read articles about the adoption process. View directories of attorneys, adoption agencies, and other tips to get started with adoption.
iTunes | Website
Adoption Poems
Use this free application and read some famous adoption poems.
Google Play | Website
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Library Materials
Read these personal stories and memoirs from people who have adopted or been adopted. Enrich your life with these encouraging works.
Check out these books for guides, stories, and legal information on adoption. Locate answers to a variety of adoption queries.
Get out the popcorn! Watch stirring stories about families who bring other children into their lives.
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Kids & Teens
Library Online Resources
NoveList Plus opens the door to fiction and nonfiction titles dealing with adoption for older readers and teens. Search NoveList Plus for more titles and recommendations.
Library Materials
Check out this collection of books including beautiful picture books, chapter books for new readers, fiction for older children and teens.
Websites
Adopt a super hero! Some of your favorite super hero characters come from adopted families. Have fun with Superman, Batman, and other super friends.
Learn more about Foster Club, the national network for young people in foster care. Check out real and inspiring stories. Connect with Foster Club or subscribe to fosterclubTV.
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Social
Choose from several different blogs posted by the award winning magazine Adoptive Families. Read Adoption Blogs from the Heart.
Listen to this podcast and get tips from others about being a foster parent. Take the journey with T and W as they share the challenges of trying to adopt.
Follow Judy Miller, adoptive parent educator and support specialist, as she blogs about the joys and issues of being an adoptive parent.
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