Information to help adoptive parents nurture their children.

Parenting Your Adoptive Child: Birth to Adulthood
Information on parenting adopted children at different ages, including resources on parenting children who are members of sibling groups, those adopted as older children, and those who are members of minority groups.

Types of Adoptive Families
Resources on the unique challenges of specific types of adoptive families: Married, Single, Military, Kin/Relative, Gay/Lesbian, and Transracial.

Talking About Adoption
Many adoptive parents will need to talk about adoption with others. Find information on how to explain adoption to children, adopted children, family, friends, medical professionals, teachers, and others.

Understanding Potential Challenges
Resources to guide adoptive parents in helping children face challenges specific to events in their history, such as child abuse and neglect, multiple placements, prenatal substance abuse, or developmental and physical disabilities.

Obtaining Children's Records and Pre-Adoption History
How to access your child's medical records and past placement in foster care homes and orphanages, and laws and legal information regulating release of records.

Legal Considerations for Adoptive Parents
Information on State laws related to collection of information on adopted children, access to adoption records, adoption subsidy, and other adoption-related topics.

Searching for Birth Relatives
The basics on how to conduct a search for birth relatives, both within the United States and internationally, and a listing of search support groups for people searching for birth relatives.

Funding and Financial Assistance
Resources to help defray adoption costs for all types of adoptions and make adoption a more affordable option, including grants, loans, employer benefits, adoption tax credits, and adoption subsidies.