This is a beginner-friendly resource for adoptees who want to understand how adoption affects their relationships. The webpage features guides about friends, birth family searches, reunion, attachment theory, and more.
This blog article gives an adoptee’s perspective on how adoptees handle dating, attachment styles, and feelings. This resource might help adoptees explain how their identity and attachment formations affect their romantic relationships.
This article explains some of the overlooked parts of being adopted that adoptees want others to know about. It explains how adoption is a lifelong journey, adoptees need to claim their identity, and more. This is a great resource for people who want to better understands the adoptee identity.
This article explains how people’s relationships are affected if they’re adopted. It explains how adoptees often fear rejection, abandonment, and change or have low self-esteem. It also encourages adoptees to seek therapy in order to better understand themselves and their relationships.
This article is about the red flags that adoptees should avoid when searching for a partner. Every adoptee and partnership is different, so this article doesn’t provide a very nuanced understanding of relationships. However, this is a good beginner-friendly resource for anybody starting to date and seeking a healthy, long-term relationship.
This is a brief article that explains some things that adoptees would like others to know about them. It describes how adoptees are similar to everyone else, how they are different, and encourages people to not assume things about adoption. This is a good resource for people who want to learn more about adoption and the adoptee identity.
This is a short, narrative story about an adoptee’s experience meeting her birth mother. This story will benefit adoptees who are considering conducting a birth family search. The author cites that her narrative is not meant to be discouraging, but realistic.
This academic journal article discusses working with LGBTQ+ youth in out-of-home care. It outlines five core premises to guide youth development. It also models how to create an environment where youth can meet their personal and social needs and develop competencies.
This journal article discusses achieving permanence for youth in out-of-home care and meeting the needs of LGBTQ+ youth. It offers models of permanence and practices to facilitate permanence with queer youth and their families. It also provides resources for people unable to return home, as well as resources about cultural issues that affect permanency.
This is an interactive map of child welfare nondiscrimination laws in the United States. Users can examine laws and equity scores by state. Policies regarding foster care, adoption, second and stepparents, and LGBTQ+ youth in child welfare are all listed. This can be used for anyone in the US considering fostering or adopting a child.
