This provocative collection of 20 essays by adoptive parents about their widely varying experiences was edited by Pamela Kruger and Jill Smolowe. (Publisher: Riverhead, 2005) Kruger and Smolowe join us for a discussion of the book—and some of the authors will also chime in to answer your questions.
Althea Izawa-Hayden, a former Connect for Kids intern, wrote about what her Korean heritage means to her in this article, reprinted with permission from Adoption Today magazine.
National Adoption Month is an opportunity to raise awareness about the 129,000 children in foster care nationwide waiting for permanent families. Recruitment efforts are highlighted throughout the National Adoption Month website to encourage America's families to "answer the call" to ensure the safety, permanency, and well-being of our children.
The mission of this organization is to find and support foster and adoptive families, and to educate communities of the Capital Region of New York State about the need for foster and adoptive homes.
Adoption is a fundamental, life-altering event for everyone involved. But many adoptive parents are still surprised to find their joy mixed with sadness and uncertainty. Ninotchka Beavers talked with some experts about what some are calling Post Adoption Depression.
A family court judge and an attorney, chatting outside an LA courthouse during a fire drill, came up with an idea that has changed thousands of children's lives: National Adoption Saturday. Cecilia Garcia looks at the history of the day, which falls this year on November 20th.
Teenagers in foster care recently shared their opinions on being adopted with Youth Communication's Represent magazine. In this reprint, Taheerah Mahdi gives us a peek inside her mind as she wrestled with her personal adoption decision.
This Urban Institute report looks at the changing characteristics of parents who have adopted children from the foster care system to help agencies identify and recruit adoptive parents. Of the children adopted in 1999, 56 percent were adopted by foster parents and 20 percent by relatives--a radical shift in child welfare practice, since until recently foster parents and relatives were rarely given opportunities to adopt. Children still awaiting adoption tend to be closest in characteristics to the children adopted by relatives--older, male and black. Prospective adoptive parents who have no prior relationship with the child are slightly more likely than foster parents to adopt older and minority children, but are significantly less likely than foster parents or relatives to adopt children with special needs.
Over the last few years, the Internet has transformed the way adoption agencies and child welfare departments go about finding adoptive homes for children and groups of siblings. Kathleen Schuckel reports on how children, prospective parents and agencies feel about the change.
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