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	Trends in InterCountry Adoption: Analysis of Data from 20 receiving countries, 1998 - 2004  Peter Selman, Newcastle University
	Korea Slowly Closes to Adoption  The South Korean Government has been carefully implementing long-term plans to eventually close international adoption for over 20 years.
	Parenting Support For Your Unique Family  300+ full length adoption articles by adoption specialists, medical experts and adoptive parents to help you adopt and raise your child. Expert and volunteer support for adoptive families online since 1996.
	The car maker Volvo says new NSW child seat laws are inadequate, and claims they could cost lives or increase serious injuries to children involved in a car crash.  She said only five children in rear-facing child seats had died in crashes in Sweden since the 1960s. A recent RTA press release said 80 Australian children die in cars every year.

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 Australia

The car maker Volvo says new NSW child seat laws are inadequate, and claims they could cost lives or increase serious injuries to children involved in a car crash.  She said only five children in rear-facing child seats had died in crashes in Sweden since the 1960s. A recent RTA press release said 80 Australian children die in cars every year.

 China

Transracial adoption - Expatriate parents living in China with their adopted Chinese children  Qualitative research investigated expatriate families living in China with adopted Chinese children and the manner in which living in China influenced the adoptees' acquisition of their culture of origin.

 Korea, South

	Korea Slowly Closes to Adoption  The South Korean Government has been carefully implementing long-term plans to eventually close international adoption for over 20 years.
	The Korean Drop - An Korean Adopted into Norway shares her story

 Norway

	The Korean Drop - An Korean Adopted into Norway shares her story
	The State of Knowledge Of Foreign Adoptions  A summary of the results of key international adoption research projects based in Scandinavia.

 Sweden

The car maker Volvo says new NSW child seat laws are inadequate, and claims they could cost lives or increase serious injuries to children involved in a car crash.  She said only five children in rear-facing child seats had died in crashes in Sweden since the 1960s. A recent RTA press release said 80 Australian children die in cars every year.

Racism / Sexism

	Is it ok for parents to adopt transracially to solve their own racial hangups?  Read about African-American televangelist Reverend Creflo Dollar's reason for adopting a caucasian child.
	Racism and inter-country adoption  Children joining our families through inter-country adoption are often visible because of their difference in skin colour, hair colour and/or facial characteristics (depending on which country the child is from).
	Tintin in the Congo  Not racist because the book is a reflection of the times?

Adoption Articles Directory Website /showurl.php?url=773

	Pros and cons of keeping the native language of the adopted child  If adoption is on your mind, you should think through your strategies on native language issues of your future child well in advance. Indeed, the preservation of the first language of their child is a hot topic for many adoptive parents.
	Thalasemia  Is this a life threatening ailment or a chronic medical condition that may be medically managed?

AICAN Website /showurl.php?url=748

	ADHD or Hyperarousal? Hyperactivity in Traumatised and Adopted Children  Article by Debbie Jeffrey
	Calming Your Wild Child (and even the not-so-wild one)  Article by Debbie Jeffrey
	Facilitating Attachment - Attachment Difficulties and Attachment Disorder in Adopted Children  Article by Debbie Jeffrey
	Parents as Co-therapists: Treating Traumatised and Attachment Disordered Children (NSW Institute of Psychiatry Conference, 2004)  Article by Debbie Jeffrey

Anti-Racist Parent Website /showurl.php?url=747

	Adoption Poster Child  A good idea or a bad idea?
	Finding a kindergarten for a multiracial family  Teachers, administrators, and staff of a school district need cultural competency training. This is not a concern just for me as a parent of children of color, but a need for all the students served by the district.
	The Racism Radar - I have always wondered why a boisterous group of white teens on the metro are kids being kids, and a boisterous group of black teens is a potentially dangerous mob.
	Why do we expect adoptees to be grateful?  Article by Anti-Racist Parent columnist Margie Perscheid
	How do we parent to eliminate bullying from our culture?
	Should adoptive parents change their childrens names?  Article by Anti-Racist Parent columnist Dawn Friedman
	How can you coach kids to be critical of what they see on TV?  Article by Carmen Van Kerckhove
	Should white parents adopt children of other races?
	"Ethnic" Barbie dolls.  Are they really ethnic if they are all modelled on the white Barbie?
	10 Do's and Don'ts for transracially adoptive parents.  by Anti-Racist Parent Columnist Michelle Myers
	11 tips for white parents with adopted children of color
	A Slur By Any Other Name  A racist joke is racist
	Adopting and Adapting  When my husband and I decided to adopt we put on our happy "never have done this before and don't know what's in store" faces and told our caseworker that we didn't care about race. We told her that we just wanted a healthy baby girl and that was it.
	Adoptism, Racism and 'The Prophet'
	Ain't No Shame in Saying That I'm Asian  It's far from my dream as a mother of a biracial daughter and an Asian son to have either of them enter into their adulthood thinking, believing, announcing and celebrating that they are white.
	Animated Oppression  'Difference' is a common theme in so family friendlt Disney films, and unfortunately, the overwhelming take-home message is that difference is not good. At best, it's a major hurdle to overcome.
	Black children adopted into a white society. Where does the racism end?  Are my church’s actions influenced by racial prejudice?
	Dating: The Next Generation  Does a white boyfriend really have to understand racism?
	Do I need to travel to China?  The dreaded question that all Asian Americans have had to answer and that most of us hate: “Where ARE you from? Which country?” as if USA is too hard to comprehend.
	Do "white schools" make white kids racist?  Do children use race to socially exclude other children from their groups?
	Does it do more harm than good to prepare kids for discrimination?  Will it make them anxious about a possibly hostile world or will they be armed with defences against discrimination?
	Drive-by Culture - People ask me all the time for a "top 10" list of suggestions or rules that are must-do's regarding transracial adoption...  Article by Jae Ran Kim
	Ebony and Ivory = Perfect Harmony in the Dorm Room?  "As someone who attended a majority white Midwestern college as a student of color, I found that my presence in the dorm often shocked and surprised fellow students, as I did not fulfill their preconceived notions of blackness."
	Exploring African Diaspora adoptee identity  I recently met an African American woman who was really interested when I told her I had adopted from Ethiopia.
	Food for thought: The ultimate cultural appropriation  "I have a little pendant that I've worn for many years. It's tiny thing, a little gold filigree oval with the word omoni, which is Korean for mother, in the center."
	How do I respond to a sister who demeans my biracial daughter?  I have a problem. I have a beautiful 22-month-old biracial daughter. My sister has said that she's employing “out of sight out of mind” so if their daughter doesn't see my daughter then she won't be “exposed to the product of an interracial relation
	How do I talk to my child’s teacher about racism in the classroom?  I am Spanish, living in the UK with my white British husband and our two children, a birth son aged 7 and a daughter adopted from China who is now 4.
	How do/should I confront my aunt about a racist e-mail?  I’m white looking mixed-race and I am adopted. I married a woman that’s Puerto Rican and black, and we have a mixed-race daughter. Today, an aunt of mine, on my adopted mom’s side, sends my wife a forwarded e-mail containing a racist "joke".
	How to incorporate diversity when living in a mostly white area?  How to naturally mix-it-up culturally when you're living somewhere that's mostly white?
	Is adoption the antithesis to oppression?
	Is it ok for parents to adopt transracially to solve their own racial hangups?  Read about African-American televangelist Reverend Creflo Dollar's reason for adopting a caucasian child.
	Is my wife making too much of our adopted child's race?  My wife and I are adopting a little infant girl from Ethiopia. My wife has read 35 books, spends hours in adoption related chat rooms, has taken courses on caring for black kids' hair and skin etc. Suffice it to say she is really committed.
	Is there a measureable benefit to raising my child in a diverse environment?  I’m a parent of a young transracially adopted Asian child, and we have to decide where to send him to school...
	It's YOUR fault if we offended you.  By now, pretty much everyone knows the story of the Spanish and Argentine teams who thought it might be cute to do a little yellow face for the press.
	Making me a liar: responding to intrusive questions about my children  How do you respond to intrusive questions like "Are they all yours?" or "Are some of your children adopted?"
	Not Exactly Diverse  How diverse does a school need to be to be diverse? Will a few minority children be enough or is a greater mix neccessary for minority children to feel safe and at ease.
	Race is Not a Four Letter Word  Whose responsibility is it to teach your adopted child about racism?
	Should I apologize when someone doesn't notice my racism?  I'm wondering about the etiquette of calling myself out/apologizing when I hear something racist come out of my mouth, especially to a person of color, when the person I am speaking to either doesn't catch it or doesn't feel comfortable saying anything.
	Some Books for White People Adopting Black Children
	Surviving and thriving as a student of color at a less than diverse university  Whether you're an international student, a big-city kid heading to a small-town university or pretty much anyone used to a certain level of diversity, adjusting to an environment that lacks the ethnic variety you are used to can be a difficult experienc
	Taking Control  When is an adopted child free to explore his or her own identity, and not the one which is bound up in the parents?
	Teaching Diversity in a Diversity-Free Zone  It occurs to me that my we traded something important to get a suburban one-acre lot with a fenced in backyard. We traded the rhythm and texture of urban life, including the kind of multicultural existence that raises racial consciousness.
	The elephant in the living room. Are we born racist?  Prejudice might be hardwired in our brains. But the good news is that we can learn to override our prejudices and embrace difference.
	The Princess Problem: "There's more than one way of being pretty."  Does Cindarella have dark skin? Could Snow-white be Asian?
	The Subtle Choice of Words and Their Not So Subtle Messages  What do people really mean when they ask "Is that your own child?"
	The Wrong Kind of Asian  "Are you sure you're not a figure skater? I mean, you are Asian."
	Tintin in the Congo  Not racist because the book is a reflection of the times?
	Tools for Teaching in a Diversity-Free Zone  How to teach, expose, and experience diversity in a "diversity-free" zone
	What a Picture Is Worth
	What am I first? Am I Puerto Rican FIRST or am I Filipino FIRST?  Honey, you are not something FIRST, you are both ALL THE TIME.
	What should I do about my daughter thinking that "white babies are better"?
	When Adoption Goes Wrong (Disruption and Dissolution)  People all over the world are talking about the return of an adopted Korean child by a Dutch diplomat and his wife.
	When parents disrupt or dissolve an adoption  When a person adopts a child and then disrupts/dissolves that adoption, they are re-traumatising the child and should accept full responsibility for that. Sometimes, overall, it is to the child's best interest that the adoption is dissolved or disrupted.
	When saying nothing is the best you can do  "Good parenting isn't what you do in the moment, it's what you give your child over time. Good parenting is also, I'm learning as a relatively new mom, a lot of trial and error."
	Where can I find a bible with racially realistic portrayals?  Every illustrated bible I've seen has images that remake biblical characters in the image of the primary reader. I haven’t come across many bibles, but I have yet to see one that makes an effort in historical, racial accuracy in its illustrations.
	White Noise: White Adults Raising White Children To Resist White Supremacy  This baby I carried inside of me, at this point no bigger than a knucklebone, was going to be privileged with a capital "P".
	Who Belongs Where in a World Full of Differences?  How to explain and deal with matching games for young children.
	Who's following whose lead?  "I must admit, I cringe just a little bit every time I hear an adoptive parent say they plan to follow their child's lead when it comes to addressing the different aspects in adoption."
	Why do you want to know where I'm from?  What's the difference between "institutional racism" and "individual discrimination"
	Why Oh Why Are These T-Shirts Still Available?  What is the problem with t-shirts saying: "I AM the real mum!", "Forgive me, I'm paper pregnant" or "Growing in my heart, expectant adoptive mother"? Harmless fun or offensive?
	Windows and mirrors  “Other people are the mirror in which we see ourselves.”

ATTACh Website /showurl.php?url=732

	ATTACh Position Statement on Coercive Therapy for Attachment Disorder
	ATTACh Accepted Definitions on Attachment
	Signs and Symptoms of Attachment Problems
	The Importance of Attachment
	Theoretical Rationale for the Treatment of Disorders of Attachment
	What is Attachment?

PACT Website /showurl.php?url=327

	Adopted People
	Adoption and Race: Article Index
	Adoptism, Racism and 'The Prophet'
	Adoptive Parents
	Attachment Issues in the School-Age Adopted Child
	Birth Parents
	Building Racial Identity: Choosing a School
	Foster Parents
	In the Thick of It
	On Being Adopted Older With "Special Needs"
	Pact "Point of View"  Adoptism: A Definition
	Pact "Point of View"  Living Multi...ism
	Stopping Bias In Its Tracks
	Teaching for Diversity: The Pre-school Setting
	The Issue of Race for Private-School Students of Color
	The Toddler of Color In Daycare

 Rainbow Kids Website /showurl.php?url=142

	Family Trees and Baby Photos  New Ideas to help parents overcome the School Challenges for Adopted Children
	Korea Slowly Closes to Adoption  The South Korean Government has been carefully implementing long-term plans to eventually close international adoption for over 20 years.

Transracial/Transcultural Adoption Website /showurl.php?url=1119

	Coming to Terms with Who I Am... Reflections of a Korean-Born Adoptee  I was born Kim Yung Soon, but when I was 6 months old, I became the daughter of Larry and Sherry Amerling. They named me Kimberlea Lucille, but I prefer just Kim. This recently confused an international Korean student I met at college.
	Diversity - Under One Roof  Jordan Fried is a junior at Williamsville North High School in Williamsville, NY. He is the white non-adopted sibling of two adopted African American brothers and three white adopted sisters with Down syndrome.

Parenting

	A Positive Self-Image for Your Pre-Teen  For kids struggling to get through adolescence, the question "who am I?" can be a difficult.
	Good Parents, Bad Results  8 ways science shows effective ways of disciplining their children.
	The car maker Volvo says new NSW child seat laws are inadequate, and claims they could cost lives or increase serious injuries to children involved in a car crash.  She said only five children in rear-facing child seats had died in crashes in Sweden since the 1960s. A recent RTA press release said 80 Australian children die in cars every year.

 Language

Pros and cons of keeping the native language of the adopted child  If adoption is on your mind, you should think through your strategies on native language issues of your future child well in advance. Indeed, the preservation of the first language of their child is a hot topic for many adoptive parents.

Statistics

	Publications on Adoption  Peter Selman, Reader in Social Policy, University of Newcastle
	Trends in InterCountry Adoption: Analysis of Data from 20 receiving countries, 1998 - 2004  Peter Selman, Newcastle University

Behavioural and Emotional

	Challenges Experienced by Intercountry Adopted Children  Human Resources and Social Development Canada
	Promoting Attachment through the Senses  Article by Patricia Irwin Johnston

Foster Care

Foster Parents

 Health

	Beyond Consequences  Dedicated to providing solutions for families raising children with difficult behaviours
	Debbie Jeffrey  Articles about attachment, attachment disorder, adoption and fostering, and general parenting
	Dr Federici  Treatment & evaluation of child neuropsychology including behavior and BiPolar disorders. Dr. Federici provides family therapy for childhood ADHD, childhood Autism, PST in children and more.
	Nancy Thomas Parenting Site  We offer information on adoption / attachment and bonding issues, and Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD) as a not-for-profit service to families and professionals.
	Reactive Attachment Disorder Site  A major problem with the diagnosis of RAD is the painful truth that many of the very people we parents turn to for help - professionals in the mental health, neurological, and medical fields - often lack the knowledge and expertise to treat our children.
	The ChildTrauma Academy  A not-for-profit organization based in Houston, Texas focused on education, service delivery and program consultation in the areas of child maltreatment.

Special Needs

On Being Adopted Older With "Special Needs"

 Gay/Lesbian

Adoption by same-sex couples  Like many issues involving sexual orientation, adoption by same-sex couples tends to be a controversial issue. This article clears up some of the confusion.

 Religion

	Is it ok for parents to adopt transracially to solve their own racial hangups?  Read about African-American televangelist Reverend Creflo Dollar's reason for adopting a caucasian child.
	Where can I find a bible with racially realistic portrayals?  Every illustrated bible I've seen has images that remake biblical characters in the image of the primary reader. I haven’t come across many bibles, but I have yet to see one that makes an effort in historical, racial accuracy in its illustrations.
	Windows and mirrors  “Other people are the mirror in which we see ourselves.”

Assorted

	Adoption Myths: 8 Misunderstandings about Adoption
	Adoption: A light on the horizon
	Adoption: at what cost?  Adoption: to give a family to a child, and not a child to a family.
	Against The Odds
	Children's Hope - New York Families
	Did I Steal My Daughter? The Tribulations of Global Adoption  The answers are never easy when you enter the labyrinth of global adoption.
	Greater Good: Rubbing Off  How kids learn about race, and how their parents can foster tolerance.
	Help Children Understand Adoption  Teach your children what type of questions it is OK to ask adopted children and which they should avoid asking.
	Intercountry Adoption Publications  The Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute
	International Social Services  An international non-governmental organization dedicated to helping individuals and families with personal or social problems resulting from migration and international movement.
	Kinship: Ties That Bind
	Nature & Nurture: A New Look at How Families Work
	Parenting Support For Your Unique Family  300+ full length adoption articles by adoption specialists, medical experts and adoptive parents to help you adopt and raise your child. Expert and volunteer support for adoptive families online since 1996.
	Specific Techniques to Increase Family Attachment
	Transition from Orphanage to Home
	Transracial/Transcultural Adoption  Selected Voices in Transracial/Transcultural Families
	Worlds Apart (Adoption story in The Age & Sun Herald)