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abandonment
abuse
abuse and adolescent parents
abuse and adoptive parents
abuse and biological parents
academic progress
acting out
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adolescent adopted persons
adolescent birthmothers
adopted-away/adopted-in
"adoptee" v. "adopted person"
Adoptees' Liberty Movement Association (ALMA)
adoption
Adoption and Foster Care Analysis Reporting System (AFCARS)
Adoption and Safe Families Act
Adoption Assistance and Child Welfare Act of 1980
Adoption Assistance Program
adoption benefits
adoption circle
adoption expenses, paying for
Adoption Hall of Fame
adoption insurance
adoption studies
adoption triad
adoption triangle
adoptive parents
adult adopted persons
adult adoptee
adults, adoption of
advertising and promotion
agencies
AIDS
alcohol abuse and adopted persons
alcohol abuse and birthmothers
almshouses
ambivalence
The American Academy of Adoption Attorneys (AAAA)
American Adoption Congress (AAC)
American Bar Association
American Public Human Services Association (APHSA)
American Society for Reproductive Medicine
Asians
Association of Jewish Family & Children's Agencies
at risk placement
attachment disorders
attitudes about adoption
attorneys
autobiography
auxiliaries
baby selling
baby shortage
background information
biographical information
biological parents
biracial
birth certificate
birth grandparent
birth kin
birth order
birthday
birthfather
birthmother or birth mother
birthparent
black adoptive parent recruitment programs
black families
blended families
blood ties
boarder babies
bonding and attachment
breast-feeding an adopted infant
Canada
CAP
case records
case study
child abuse
Child Welfare Information Gateway
Child Welfare League of America Inc.
children, adopted
Children's Aid Society of New York
children's rights
China
"chosen child"
citizenship
classes for adoptive parents
co-parenting
cocaine and "crack" babies
computers
Concerned United Birthparents Inc. (CUB)
confidentiality
Congressional Coalition on Adoption
consent (to an adoption)
contract
cooperative adoption™
corporate benefits
costs to adopt
Council on Accreditation of Services for Families and Children Inc.
counseling
crisis pregnancy
cultural differences
culture camps
culture shock
custody
demographics
designated adoption
developmental disabilities
diagnostic home
direct placement
disabilities, developmental
discipline
disinformation
disruption
dissolution
divorce of adoptive parents
doctors
Down syndrome
drug abuse
early puberty
Eastern European adoptions
economics of adoption
education of adoptive parents
emotional problems
employment benefits
entitlement
environment
ethical issues
etiquette
eugenics
expenses to adopt
explaining adoption
failed adoptions
family preservation
family tree
fantasies of adopted children
father, legal
federal government
fertile adoptive parents
fertility rates
fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS)
finalization
foreign adoption
forever family
foster care
foster parent
foster parent adoption
foundations
full disclosure adoption
gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender adoption
gender preference
genetic data
genetic fingerprinting
genetic parents
genetic predispositions
girls, adoptive parents' preference for
grandparent
grandparent adoptions
grief
group homes
guardian ad litem
Hague Convention on Intercountry Adoption
handicapped children
hard-to-place children
health insurance
hepatitis
heredity
high risk placements
home study
homosexual adoption
hospitals' treatment of birthmothers
hotlines
identified adoption
identity
illegitimacy
immediate placements
immigration and naturalization
immunizations
incest
income tax law benefits for adoptive parents
independent adoption
India
Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978
infant adoption
infertility
informal adoption
inheritance
insurance
intelligence
intercountry adoption
intermediary
international adoption
international adoption agencies
International Concerns for Children
International Soundex Reunion Registry (ISRR)
Internet
interracial
interstate adoption
Interstate Compact on Adoption and Medical Assistance (ICAMA)
Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children
jargon used in adoption
judge
kin
kinship care
Korean adopted children
language
large families
Latin American adoptions
Latinos
laws, federal
laws, state
lawsuits
lawyer
learning disabilities
legal custody
legal father
legal risk adoption
lifebook
loss
married birthparents
matching
maternity homes
maternity services
mature women planning adoption
media
Medicaid
medical history
medical problems of adopted children
medically fragile
mental health of adopted children and adults
military members and adoption
Model State Adoption Act
multiethnic
Multiethnic Placement Act (MEPA)
mutual aid groups
mutual consent registries
naming
National Adoption Center
National Adoption Week
National Association of Black Social Workers
National Association of Social Workers Inc. (NASW)
The National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws (NCCUSL)
National Council For Adoption
National Council for Single Adoptive Parents
National Photo History of Children Waiting for Adoptive Parents
Native Americans
natural parents
Naturalization
neglect
nonidentifying information
nonsectarian agencies
North American Council on Adoptable Children (NACAC)
notice
Nurturing Network
obesity
older child
One Church, One Child
only child adoptive families
open adoption
open records
"openness"
optional adopter
orphan
Orphan Train
Orphan Train Heritage Society of America Inc. (OTHSA)
orphanage
"orphans of the living"
outreach
parens patriae
parent-initiated adoption
parental leave
parental rights
pathology and adoptive status
pediatric AIDS
permanency planning
photolistings
physicians
placement
placement outcome
post-legal adoptive services
postplacement services
poverty
preadoptive counseling
prebirth consent to an adoption
pregnancy after adoption
pregnancy counseling
prenatal care
preparing a child for adoption
preplacement visits
private adoption
private agencies
prostitution
protective services
psychiatric problems of adopted persons
psychological parent
public assistance
putative father
race
rainbow families
rape
"real parents"
recruitment
registries
reimbursement
relative adoptions
religion
relinquishment
reproductive technologies
research
residential treatment centers
RESOLVE The National Infertility Association
resumé
reunification
reunion
revocation
Romanian adoptions
Russia
screening
sealed records
search
search and consent laws
search groups
sectarian agencies
self-esteem
self-help
separation and loss
sex of child, preference of adoptive parents
sexual abuse
showing of the child
siblings
simple adoption
single adoptive parents
skin color
sliding scale fees
social workers
socioeconomic status
Soundex, International Reunion Registry
special needs
Stanley v. Illinois
Stars of David
state laws
state social services department
statistics
stepparent adoptions
subsidies
success rates
support groups
surrender
surrogate motherhood
targeted adoption
teachers and adopted children
teenage adopted persons
teenage parents
teenagers, adopted
termination of parental rights
terminology
therapy and therapists
traditional adoption
transracial adoption
twins
U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service
unadoptable
The Uniform Adoption Act (UAA)
unwed parents
updated home study
videotape
voluntary agency
waiting children
waiting lists
waiting period
Wednesday's Child
welfare
working mothers
wrongful adoption
youths
zero population growth
zygote adoption
abandonment
abuse
abuse and adolescent parents
abuse and adoptive parents
abuse and biological parents
academic progress
acting out
adjustment
adolescent adopted persons
adolescent birthmothers
adopted-away/adopted-in
"adoptee" v. "adopted person"
Adoptees' Liberty Movement Association (ALMA)
adoption
Adoption and Foster Care Analysis Reporting System (AFCARS)
Adoption and Safe Families Act
Adoption Assistance and Child Welfare Act of 1980
Adoption Assistance Program
adoption benefits
adoption circle
adoption expenses, paying for
Adoption Hall of Fame
adoption insurance
adoption studies
adoption triad
adoption triangle
adoptive parents
adult adopted persons
adult adoptee
adults, adoption of
advertising and promotion
agencies
AIDS
alcohol abuse and adopted persons
alcohol abuse and birthmothers
almshouses
ambivalence
The American Academy of Adoption Attorneys (AAAA)
American Adoption Congress (AAC)
American Bar Association
American Public Human Services Association (APHSA)
American Society for Reproductive Medicine
Asians
Association of Jewish Family & Children's Agencies
at risk placement
attachment disorders
attitudes about adoption
attorneys
autobiography
auxiliaries
baby selling
baby shortage
background information
biographical information
biological parents
biracial
birth certificate
birth grandparent
birth kin
birth order
birthday
birthfather
birthmother or birth mother
birthparent
black adoptive parent recruitment programs
black families
blended families
blood ties
boarder babies
bonding and attachment
breast-feeding an adopted infant
Canada
CAP
case records
case study
child abuse
Child Welfare Information Gateway
Child Welfare League of America Inc.
children, adopted
Children's Aid Society of New York
children's rights
China
"chosen child"
citizenship
classes for adoptive parents
co-parenting
cocaine and "crack" babies
computers
Concerned United Birthparents Inc. (CUB)
confidentiality
Congressional Coalition on Adoption
consent (to an adoption)
contract
cooperative adoption™
corporate benefits
costs to adopt
Council on Accreditation of Services for Families and Children Inc.
counseling
crisis pregnancy
cultural differences
culture camps
culture shock
custody
demographics
designated adoption
developmental disabilities
diagnostic home
direct placement
disabilities, developmental
discipline
disinformation
disruption
dissolution
divorce of adoptive parents
doctors
Down syndrome
drug abuse
early puberty
Eastern European adoptions
economics of adoption
education of adoptive parents
emotional problems
employment benefits
entitlement
environment
ethical issues
etiquette
eugenics
expenses to adopt
explaining adoption
failed adoptions
family preservation
family tree
fantasies of adopted children
father, legal
federal government
fertile adoptive parents
fertility rates
fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS)
finalization
foreign adoption
forever family
foster care
foster parent
foster parent adoption
foundations
full disclosure adoption
gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender adoption
gender preference
genetic data
genetic fingerprinting
genetic parents
genetic predispositions
girls, adoptive parents' preference for
grandparent
grandparent adoptions
grief
group homes
guardian ad litem
Hague Convention on Intercountry Adoption
handicapped children
hard-to-place children
health insurance
hepatitis
heredity
high risk placements
home study
homosexual adoption
hospitals' treatment of birthmothers
hotlines
identified adoption
identity
illegitimacy
immediate placements
immigration and naturalization
immunizations
incest
income tax law benefits for adoptive parents
independent adoption
India
Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978
infant adoption
infertility
informal adoption
inheritance
insurance
intelligence
intercountry adoption
intermediary
international adoption
international adoption agencies
International Concerns for Children
International Soundex Reunion Registry (ISRR)
Internet
interracial
interstate adoption
Interstate Compact on Adoption and Medical Assistance (ICAMA)
Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children
jargon used in adoption
judge
kin
kinship care
Korean adopted children
language
large families
Latin American adoptions
Latinos
laws, federal
laws, state
lawsuits
lawyer
learning disabilities
legal custody
legal father
legal risk adoption
lifebook
loss
married birthparents
matching
maternity homes
maternity services
mature women planning adoption
media
Medicaid
medical history
medical problems of adopted children
medically fragile
mental health of adopted children and adults
military members and adoption
Model State Adoption Act
multiethnic
Multiethnic Placement Act (MEPA)
mutual aid groups
mutual consent registries
naming
National Adoption Center
National Adoption Week
National Association of Black Social Workers
National Association of Social Workers Inc. (NASW)
The National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws (NCCUSL)
National Council For Adoption
National Council for Single Adoptive Parents
National Photo History of Children Waiting for Adoptive Parents
Native Americans
natural parents
Naturalization
neglect
nonidentifying information
nonsectarian agencies
North American Council on Adoptable Children (NACAC)
notice
Nurturing Network
obesity
older child
One Church, One Child
only child adoptive families
open adoption
open records
"openness"
optional adopter
orphan
Orphan Train
Orphan Train Heritage Society of America Inc. (OTHSA)
orphanage
"orphans of the living"
outreach
parens patriae
parent-initiated adoption
parental leave
parental rights
pathology and adoptive status
pediatric AIDS
permanency planning
photolistings
physicians
placement
placement outcome
post-legal adoptive services
postplacement services
poverty
preadoptive counseling
prebirth consent to an adoption
pregnancy after adoption
pregnancy counseling
prenatal care
preparing a child for adoption
preplacement visits
private adoption
private agencies
prostitution
protective services
psychiatric problems of adopted persons
psychological parent
public assistance
putative father
race
rainbow families
rape
"real parents"
recruitment
registries
reimbursement
relative adoptions
religion
relinquishment
reproductive technologies
research
residential treatment centers
RESOLVE The National Infertility Association
resumé
reunification
reunion
revocation
Romanian adoptions
Russia
screening
sealed records
search
search and consent laws
search groups
sectarian agencies
self-esteem
self-help
separation and loss
sex of child, preference of adoptive parents
sexual abuse
showing of the child
siblings
simple adoption
single adoptive parents
skin color
sliding scale fees
social workers
socioeconomic status
Soundex, International Reunion Registry
special needs
Stanley v. Illinois
Stars of David
state laws
state social services department
statistics
stepparent adoptions
subsidies
success rates
support groups
surrender
surrogate motherhood
targeted adoption
teachers and adopted children
teenage adopted persons
teenage parents
teenagers, adopted
termination of parental rights
terminology
therapy and therapists
traditional adoption
transracial adoption
twins
U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service
unadoptable
The Uniform Adoption Act (UAA)
unwed parents
updated home study
videotape
voluntary agency
waiting children
waiting lists
waiting period
Wednesday's Child
welfare
working mothers
wrongful adoption
youths
zero population growth
zygote adoption
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©2000 by Christine Adamec and William Pierce, Ph.D. Reprinted from The Encyclopedia of Adoption, 2nd Edition (2nd Edition) with permission of Facts On File, Inc.
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