A book for all types of people personally involved with adoption. Not a guide through the adoption process, rather this is a guide through the necessary questions that have to be addressed before any realistic decisions about adoption can be made.

A film visibly portraying the feelings of those touched by adoption, as well as conveying a positive, honest message about adoption. Viewers will find out firsthand how it feels to be adopted.

This book examines the impact of building a family by adoption after experiencing infertility. Intended audience: couples struggling to decide whether to adopt, those who have said yes to adoption, and parents of young children who have been adopted.

Designed for prospective and current adoptive parents, this book covers all aspects of adoption from learning about adoption, agency vs. independent adoption, homestudies, preparing to receive your child, open adoptions and raising an adopted child.

Despite the goofy title, this book is written by an adoption expert and uses sensitive, straightforward language in discussing how to prepare for adoption, survive the adoption process, and raise a happy, healthy child.

This nuts-and-bolts guide to the entire adoption process describes various methods of adoption, state requirements and laws of adoption, necessary paperwork, lists of licensed agencies, and a detailed attorney description section.

An informational guide for adoptive parents about preparing for placement, bonding with an adoptive child, trans-racial and international adoptions, as well as lists of adoptive parenting organizations in the U.S. and Canada.

New edition of a classic guide to rearing children in an adoptive family, drawn from child development, psychology, sociology, medicine, and the experiences of adoptive parents. It examines the child’s physical, emotional and psychological development.

Advice on how to help an adopted child deal with their questions and concerns at each stage of development. There are examples of conversations to use as a guide for talking with children, and age-specific activities to reinforce the concepts discussed.

Insight into how adopted children commonly think and feel about being adopted. It explains how and why adopted children grieve for their birthparents and suggests ways that adoptive parents can help them to come to a healthy resolution of this grief.

The website of the Center for Adoption Support and Education (C.A.S.E.), a non-profit organization dedicated to providing support and education to anyone and everyone in the adoption community.

A book describing happy, healthy relationships between the birth mother and adoptive mother. The author’s experience as a birth mother brings her journey into perspective for future birth mothers and adoptive parents.

The hope of open adoption is that adopted children will develop stronger identities if they have the opportunity to develop healthy ongoing relationships with their families of origin. This book offers an intimate look at how these relationships evolve.

This is a classic which has been updated to reflect current practices in open adoption. It debunks negative stereotypes of birthmothers, and contains actual letters written between adoptive families and birthparents.

Two leading adoption experts provide an authoritative and reassuring guide to the issues and concerns of adoptive and birth families through all stages of the open adoption relationship.

Website helping people in all stages of adoption with insight and support for creating and sustaining healthy open adoption relationships.

Today, more and more lesbian and gay couples are making the decision to have and raise families together. This book gives details on every aspect of gay and lesbian parenting, including adoption, gay men making babies, coparenting and legal issues.

A collection of personal accounts given by singles and couples in Great Britain who have fostered or adopted children. Includes an editorial essay which examines the many issues involved when lesbians or gay men choose this method of building a family.

A nonprofit organization providing education, resources and support for gays, lesbians, and same-sex couples touched by infertility, assisted reproduction or adoption.

Following a historical overview of adoption in American law and society, this book discusses contemporary aspects of adoption law and practice including issues like who may place children for adoption, transracial adoption and more.

Resource on domestic adoption, intercountry adoption, and post-adoption from the Child Welfare Information Gateway. Information includes who can adopt and be adopted, consent to adoption, rights of presumed fathers, access to family information and more.

A free service of the Legal Information Institute, Cornell University Law School

Information on family law for LGBT couples and singles: legal issues related to surrogacy, egg donation, embryo donation, sperm donation, gay and lesbian adoption and co-parenting agreements. Click Resources tab, then Ask the Experts.

Provides a credit of over $12,000 for lawful adoption expenses, including attorney fees and living expenses, depending on income of adopting parent. See Form 8839, Instructions for Form 8839, and Adoption Benefits FAQs, all at www.irs.gov.

The Gift of Adoption Fund is a national 501(c)(3) that offers aid to prospective adoptive families in the form of adoption grants. Those adopting domestically or internationally that have an approved adoption home study are welcome to apply.

The National Adoption Foundation offers adoption grants, an adoption credit card and unsecured adoption loans. The program has no exclusions as to race, ethnicity, gender, age, sexual orientation, family characteristics or income.

Offers adoption grants to prospective adoptive families with priority given-but not limited-to families presenting the greatest need. The adoption home study or home study update must be satisfactorily completed prior to submitting an application.

Helpusadopt.org is a national 501(c)(3) financial grant program that helps couples/individuals, regardless of race, religion, gender, marital status and sexual orientation, with the costs of their adoptions.

Adoptive parents narrate the loving preparations made for the day they took their child home. The story begins simply, with the phone call that notifies them of the baby's arrival, and ends with the joy of seeing their child.

A well illustrated children’s book introducing the concept of surrogacy to young children who can use the book as a reference guide as they grow older and attempt to understand surrogacy and the reasons behind it.

A children’s book introducing the concept of egg donation and babies, describing how sometimes people need help to be a mommy or daddy.

A sweet and sunny look at adoption, the story is framed as a much-loved and clearly much-requested family tale, and rings true from beginning to end. Combining with candor, Curtis deftly addresses the logistics of adoption in a matter-of-fact manner.

A charming, award-winning story about a family with an adopted child, helping the child understand adoption and family.

Based on the author's own experience, this heartfelt story follows a woman on her journey to adopt a baby girl from China. The narrative chronicles the baby's trip from a crib in a big room shared with many other babies to her own crib in her own room.

Rhythmic text and illustrations with universal appeal show a toddler spending the day with its mommies, in the first book, and a slightly older toddler spending the day with its daddies, in the second book.

A Korean born Minnesota girl, adopted at birth, has trouble identifying with her ancestry until a new student, a Korean boy, begins attending school with her. Encouraged to befriend him, the girl learns about her culture and how to fit in.

Written by medical and legal pioneers in the field, this book deals with the medical, legal and policy issues surrounding ARTs: artificial insemination, sperm and egg donation, traditional and gestational surrogacy, same-sex parentage, and more.

How-to guide to Surrogacy. It covers gestational surrogacy via IVF as well as traditional surrogacy via artificial insemination.

Book for anyone who used or is thinking of using any kind of assisted reproduction to help create a family.

Book that documents the true stories of twenty women who had children via surrogacy.

Online community of surrogate mothers, intended parents and egg donors.

Ellen Sarasohn Glazer and Evelina Weidman Sterling are wise and compassionate guides. In simple, clear, informative, and sensitive language, they address feelings that arise for individuals and couples facing egg donation decisions.

Family building information for future parents dealing with infertility, including sections on In Vitro Fertilization, egg and sperm donation, and surrogacy.

Advocates for waiting children and provides subsidy information.

Information and support for single adoptive parents.

ASRM is the largest nonprofit organization in the U.S. dedicated to the advancement of the art, science and practice of reproductive medicine.