Does anyone know any online resources on adoption?

Question

I'm writing and psychology essay and I'm trying to find some good legitimate resources on adoption and how it affects the adoptees. Does anyone know of any sites? Particulary if they deal with children?
I've had very little luck.

Answer 1

You received some good references here, but I feel you need to be more specific about what you want, or your essay could become book-length.

For instance, are you pursuing why the kids were given up in the first place? Sick parents, drug addict parents, a female who did not want kids, international adoptions from poor countries....

Or how the children reacted to it if they were old enough to realize what was going on?

Or the middle ground, like did time prove they were better off with the new family instead of the old? Except in cases of documented abuse, that would be strictly opinion.

Or once discovering they were adopted, did they pursue finding their biological parents, and what were the results of that? I know of three adoptees who went on long, exhaustive quests to find bio parents, and were very disapointed and hurt by the bio parent's reaction. Or perhaps there was a heartwarming reunion, but the bio parent turned out to be a selfish jerk after all in the long run.

Your essay would certainly be interesting, if you can narrow down the scope, are able to work with opinion and interviews instead of dry statistics. Good luck to you.

Answer 2

http://www.pacer-adoption.org/
http://www.bastards.org/

Answer 3

www.adoptionquotes.org
www.adoptionhelp.org
www.cfw.tufts.edu/viewtopics.asp?categoryid=2&topicid=31
www.cfw.tufts.edu/viewtopics.asp?categoryid=2&topicid=31