This is a collection of stories, poems, and songs about different types of families and family relationships. The central concept of this anthology is that the concept of “family” includes adoptive and foster families, step-families, relatives, friends, community, culture, and global humanity.
This is a children’s picture book that discusses transracial adoption. It uses religion to portray adoption and human creation.
This is a children’s book that tells the story of a woman who travels to China to adopt a baby girl. It’s based on the author’s own experiences and is a celebration of the love and joy that a baby brings into the home.
This book is about a girl who has lived in an orphanage for most of her life. She has acted as a caretaker for other children and hopes to be adopted. Eventually, she’s invited to stay with two different families. This is a heartwarming story about love, family, and hope.
This is a fictitious story about Anne Shirley, an eleven-year-old orphan who isn’t embraced by her adoptive family. Before they send her back, Anne wins them over completely. It explores all the vulnerability, expectations, and dreams of growing up.
This organization provides individualized support and services to children, youth and, adults who have special needs or have been in foster care. They strive to empower individuals, support families, and strengthen the foster and adoption community.
An article explaining the role a support group can play in the lives of adopted children and their families. The article also explains how support groups form and five different types of support groups.
The Support for Adoptive Families, Birth Families, and Adoptees is part of the New Beginning community. This community provides many kinds of support groups, including ones for adoptive parents, adult adoptees, and youth adoptees. Although this organization is in Idaho, most meetings are held over Zoom.
This network gives adoptive parents a community of people to share experiences and answers about adoption. They have a list of support groups for parents in Michigan, filtered by county. AFSN also publishes a calendar of all the organization’s events (meet ups, teen groups, etc.).
This is an online forum containing numerous threads about adoption. Categories include adoptive parents, foster care, special needs, adult adoptees, and more. Each category contains multiple subcategories where people can publish posts and interact with other users.
