More Gays And Lesbians Becoming Parents

It’s nice to see such a positive article in the midst of such discrimination. I honestly don’t understand what their issue is with gay people adopting. Families come in all shapes and sizes and who’s to say that one is better than another.
Gaywired.com
According to a study released by the Williams Institute and the Urban [...]

Heart Gallery (Texas)

Heart Gallery Puts A Face On Children Needing Adoption
March 26, 2007 04:01 PM EDT
It’s called the Heart Gallery, and it features the faces of adoption. But this year, the focus is moving a new direction.
“Our focus, really, is a lot on older children right now,” said Chris Van Deusen with Child Protective Services. “It’s much [...]

Parenting Biological And Adopted Children

Debra G. Smith of the National Adoption Information Clearinghouse, 1996.
Years ago, if you went to an adoption agency seeking to adopt a child after having had a child by birth, you were turned down. It just wasn’t done. It was thought that you shouldn’t mix the two the children would be too different, and the [...]

Lesbian Seeks To Overturn Adoption

Like a lot of lesbian couples, Sara Wheeler and her partner, Missy, decided to start a family together and share the Wheeler as their last name. Sara gave birth to a son through artificial insemination and two years later, they both decided that Missy should adopt the child and legally become his second parent.
Their relationship [...]

Transracial Adoption

Transracial or transcultural adoption means placing a child who is of one race or ethnic group with adoptive parents of another race or ethnic group. In the United States these terms usually refer to the placement of children of color or children from another country with Caucasian adoptive parents.People choose to adopt transracially or transculturally [...]

Paid For Choosing Adoption

Senator Dan Patrick (Texas) wants to pay pregnant women 500 dollars for choosing adoption over abortion. The bill has not been scheduled yet for a hearing in the Senate Health and Human Services Committee.
I think it’s an interesting idea, but one that would have a lot of kinks to work out.
Sen. Patricks proposal calls for [...]

Dave Thomas Foundation

The Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption is close to my heart because my own children came to us through a foster care adoption.
They help bring awareness to foster care adoption through programs such as “Adoption-Friendly Workplace” and their annual television special ‘A Home For the Holidays’ and
From their site:
…dedicated to dramatically increasing the adoptions of [...]

International Adoption

Have Your Heard Of The China Adoption Connection
Author: Robert Byrnes

The China adoption program is among the most popular of all international adoptions. In 2005, nearly 8,000 kids were adopted from China by citizens of the United States. When looking into international adoptions, some countries may be complicated to work with. However, in the case of [...]

International Adoption

by Cynthia Teeters.

You may think that the first thing to do to start an international adoption is to get a list of agencies and begin contacting them for information. Actually, you start by realizing that thousands of parents have passed successfully through this process before you and that by tapping into their vast storehouse of [...]

Embryo Adoption

Embryo Adoptions
Author: Dana Sanders
For many couples desperately trying to bear children, infertility is a reality. Usually, a couple with fertility problems attempts many chances at having a biological family—including in vitro fertilizations. Many couples wish to experience the joy of carrying and giving birth to a child, but physically cannot produce a viable embryo. After [...]