Domestic Infant Resources

Topics

Books on Adoption
Child Care
General Information
Parenting Resources
Resources for Professionals
Online Support

Books on Adoption

Adoption Life Cycle: The Children and Their Families Through the Years
Examines the effects of adoption on adoptees, adoptive parents, and birth parents at every stage of life and concludes that adoption is still a worthy solution to a significant social problem.

Adopting After Infertility
This book discusses the hard questions surrounding adoption and infertility, and is separated into three sections: dealing with infertility, making your adoption plan, and raising children in a family built through adoption.

The Open Adoption Experience - A Complete Guide for Adoptive and Birth Families
The Open Adoption Experience seeks to educate those considering open adoptions as well as those already involved to understand and nurture relationships with their children.

Secret Thoughts of an Adoptive Mother
In this candid memoir, Wolff relates her mixed feelings about bringing up a child from a different cultural background. Although she deeply loves her son, she is concerned that a biracial adoption may have made his future life harder.

Child Care

MCC Maryland Child Care Resource Network
List of child care facilities in MD.

MD office of child care

General Information

Child Welfare Information Gateway
Presents information for professionals and members of the adoption triad (birth parents, adoptive parents, and adoptees) on domestic and intercountry adoption

Adoption Tax Credit 2013

Parenting Resources

Twenty Things Adopted Kids Wish Their Adoptive Parents Knew
A guide that provides answers and insight into the emotions of the adopted child. Provides insight for adopted children, adoptive parents, and adoption professionals.

Raising Adopted Children, Revised Edition: Practical Reassuring Advice for Every Adoptive Parent
Lois Melina, editor of adopted child newsletter draws on medical and psychological research to guide parents through the development of their child.

Real Parents, Real Children: Parenting the Adopted Child
A leading authority offers practical advice for parents on how to talk with their children about adoption and how to help them through the rougher times of growing up adopted.

Resources for Professionals

Child Welfare Information Gateway
Child Welfare Information Gateway promotes the safety, permanency, and well-being of children and families by connecting child welfare, adoption and related professionals as well as the general public to timely, essential information. A service of the Children's Bureau, Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, we provide access to print and electronic publications, websites, and online databases covering a wide range of topics from prevention to permanency, including child welfare, child abuse and neglect, adoption, search and reunion, and much more.

Adopt Us Kids Resources for Professionals
The National Resource Center for Recruitment and Retention of Foster and Adoptive Parents at AdoptUsKids (NRCRRFAP), along with the other AdoptUsKids partners, has developed a number of valuable resources to enhance and support the efforts of States, Tribes and Territories in recruiting and retaining foster, adoptive, relative and kin parents.

Online Community Support

Adoptive Parent Support Forum
Extremely extensive, and covers every imaginable demographic. These are really wonderful forums and a great community resource!

Adoption Access Network
The Adoption Access Network is a national coalition of adoption agencies that work in close partnership with Planned Parenthood affiliates and independent abortion and family planning providers to introduce the possibility of adoption to clinics across the country.