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Sites that offer information for parents on how to raise an adopted child and what issues they will face once that child reaches his or her teen or adolescent years.
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About.com: Parenting the Adopted Teen
Parenting the Adopted Teenager is About.com's comprehensive site for parents that discuss the identification and treatment of common issues affecting adopted adolescents, such as identity, abandonment and behavioral problems.
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AdoptHelp Law Center
AdoptHelp Law Center is the nation's #1 domestic adoption center specializing in both independent and collaborative agency adoptions.
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Adoption Guide
There’s more than one way to build a family — and adopting a child into your home and your hearts is one of the most wonderful. But how do you figure out if adoption is right for you — and how do you get started? You’ll find the answers to your questions here.
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Adoption Options - Factsheet for Families
Child Welfare Information Gateway National Foster Care & Adoption Directory offers State-by-State listings of public officials, public and licensed private adoption agencies, and support groups for adoptive parents or people searching for birth relatives. This factsheet focuses on one way to think about how choices in adoption may flow from one another.
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Adoptive Families
Adoptive Families, the award-winning national adoption magazine, is the leading adoption information source for families before, during, and after adoption.
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Adoptive Family Resources
Adoptive Family Resources was founded by concerned parents and professionals. Through our experience we became aware of the need for support and counsel for families who raise children that have experienced significant abuse and neglect. Many of these children are in adoptive homes. Often when an adoption is finalized, there are few services available to help with the continuing needs that adoptive families may have.
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Center for Adoption Support & Education
C.A.S.E. is a private, non-profit adoptive family support center. Its programs focus on helping children from a variety of foster care and adoptive backgrounds to receive understanding and support which will enable them to grow into successful, productive adults.
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Focus Adolescent Services
Focus Adolescent Service's site dedicated to Parenting the Adopted Adolescent including issues such as identity, abandonment, and behavioral problems.
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Impact of Adoption on Adopted Persons
Impact of Adoption on Adopted Persons: A Factsheet for Families is offered by the National Adoption Information Clearinghouse. The factsheet contains information about issues that adoptees may face, especially during adolescence, in knowing that they are adopted.
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Intercountry Adoption
Information from the U.S. Department of State about the adoption processes in various countries and the U.S. legal requirements to bring a child adopted abroad to the United States. The Office of Children's Issues in the Bureau of Consular Affairs provides brochures describing the adoption process in numerous countries.
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Kinship Center
Since 1984, Kinship Center has helped create and support families for thousands of children who could no longer remain safely with their birth parents. Kinship Center was founded by community leaders from both the private and public sector when they came together to create an agency dedicated to the belief that children need permanency to heal and grow to their potential.
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Lifelong Issues in Adoption
Lifelong Issues in Adoption Discusses how adoption is a lifelong, intergenerational process that unites the triad of birth families, adoptees, and adoptive families.
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National Adoption Information Clearinghouse
National Adoption Information Clearinghouse is the US Department of Health and Human Services comprehensive site that provides information on all aspects of adoption, including a section for adopted parents for dealing with behavioral issues of adopted adolescents and teens.
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Proactive Parenting
Proactive Parenting: How to Recognize Issues and When to Seek Help discusses how to recognize your adopted teen or adolescent's anger, attachment, depression or axiety problem before it gets out of control.
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Teens Wanted
Time Artice "Teens Wanted: Adopt an adolescent? Yes, there are families crazy and loving enough to take that on"
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Thirty Things Adolescent Adoptees Wish They Knew
Thirty Things Adolescent Adoptees Wish They Knew About Their Birthparents - But Often Are Afraid To Ask provides categories of information that parents should compile and be ready to share once their adopted child becomes curious about his or her origins.
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What Is An Adoption Plan?
Sometimes couples expecting a baby aren’t able to care for the child. They decide to make an adoption plan to allow someone else to raise the child. This article explains the basics about adoption.
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When Parents Should Become Concerned
When Parents Should Become Concerned is a helpful article on About.com that discusses the common warning signs which indicate your adopted child is experiencing emotional or behavioral issues.
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You're Never Too Old
You're Never too Old -- Teens Speak Out on Adoption. Teens share their thoughts on the best and worst parts of being adopted and offer advice to other teens in foster care considering adoption in this brochure from the Center for Child and Family Studies.
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