This website details the sociopolitical circumstances of China. It examines the causes of the One Child Policy, as well as recent causes and events regarding adoption. This is a great resource for people interested in the politics and history of adoption.
This is a resource page for Chinese adoptees interested in searching for birth family. It offers information and resources for both the adoptive parent and adoptees. This is a beginner-friendly resource for Chinese adoptees interested in searching. They share questions to ask yourself before searching, cultural caveats, technical tools, and stories from adoptees.
The Nanchang Project is a program for creating community and sharing resources for Chinese adoptees searching for birth family. Their goal is to provide adoptees with a greater sense of identity by helping them access their histories and birth culture. They provide a space to connect, educate, and support the adoptee community.
This resource guide is a compilation of birth family searching resources for thee Chinese adoption community. It offers various tips, precautions, strategies, platforms, etc. for successful searches. This is a fairly comprehensive guide on how to conduct a safe, effective birth family search.
Bao Bei Hui Jia is a Chinese birth family searching site where users can post searching posters for free. Users are encouraged to provide information like birthday, missing time, family seeker characterization, possible memories, etc. This is a great resource for Chinese adoptees or adoptive parents searching on behalf of their child.
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 online journal publishes empirical knowledge and conceptual information about sexual minorities and their social environment. It has innovative ideas and resources for the design, evaluation, and delivery for social services for these populations at all stages of life. All articles in this journal have undergone anonymous, double-blind peer review.
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.
This is a report that discusses discrimination against LGBTQ+ foster and adoptive parents. It explains how religious exemptions allow agencies to discriminate against LGBTQ+ parents. In turn, that reduces the number of families available to adopt, overburdens the child welfare system, and hurts the best interests of children.
