Self-Sufficiency of Former Foster Youth in Wisconsin: Analysis of Unemployment Insurance Wage Data and Public Assistance Data
This paper looks at workforce participation, income, and reliance on public assistance among former foster youth who exited foster care at the age of seventeen or older.
• Category: Family Relations > Adopted Children
• Institute for Research on Poverty • August 01, 2001

When Children Cannot Return Home: Adoption and Guardianship
This article discusses efforts on the part of governments and welfare agencies to find permanent, stable homes for foster children through adoption and guardianship.
• Category: Family Relations > Adopted Children
• The Future of Children • 2004

Adoptions Australia 1998-99
This report provides adoption statistics for all regions of Australia from 1998 to 1999, with information about adopted children, adoptive families, and birth mothers.
• Category: Family Relations > Adopted Children
• Australian Institute of Health and Welfare • 2000

Adoptions Australia 2000-01
This report provides adoption statistics for all regions of Australia from 2000 to 2001, with information about adopted children, adoptive families, and birth mothers.
• Category: Family Relations > Adopted Children
• Australian Institute of Health and Welfare • 2002

Adoptions Australia 2001-02
This report provides adoption statistics for all regions of Australia from 2001 to 2002, with information about adopted children, adoptive families, and birth mothers.
• Category: Family Relations > Adopted Children
• Australian Institute of Health and Welfare • 2002

Adoptions Australia 1999-00
This report provides adoption statistics for all regions of Australia from 1999 to 2000, with information about adopted children, adoptive families, and birth mothers.
• Category: Family Relations > Adopted Children
• Australian Institute of Health and Welfare • 2001

Adoptions Australia 2003-04
This report provides adoption statistics for all regions of Australia from 2003 to 2004, with information about adopted children, adoptive families, and birth mothers.
• Category: Family Relations > Adopted Children
• Australian Institute of Health and Welfare • 2004

Adoption Dynamics: The Impact of the Adoption and Safe Families Act
This paper examines the effects of the Adoption and Safe Families Act on the proportion of children adopted from foster care and the length of time needed for the adoption process to be completed.
• Category: Family Relations > Adopted Children
• Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services • August 2002

Homosexual Parenting
This article examines the issues of homosexual adoption and parenting and their impact on children.
• Category: Family Relations > Adopted Children
• The Australian Family Association • July 2001

Statistics on Adoption in the United States
This article reviews existing data relating to the characteristics of parents who adopt or give their children up for adoption, the nature of the children who are adopted, and adoption arrangements.
• Category: Family Relations > Adopted Children
• The Future of Children • Spring 1993

Agency Versus Indepedent Adoption: The Case for Independent Adoption
This article discusses the role that independent (non-agency) adoption plays in the United States, the processes involved in independent adoption, and the risks and benefits associated with it.
• Category: Family Relations > Adopted Children
• The Future of Children • Spring 1993

Long-Term Outcomes in Adoption
This article examines the pyschological risks faced by adopted children as compared to non-adopted children.
• Category: Family Relations > Adopted Children
• The Future of Children • Spring 1993

Risks and Benefits of Open Adoption
This article reviews the main arguments relating to the advantages and disadvantages of an adoption process in which the birth and adoptive parents are in contact with each other.
• Category: Family Relations > Adopted Children
• The Future of Children • Spring 1993

Outcomes of Adoption of Children With Special Needs
This article investigates the well-being of adopted children who have special needs (for example, behavioural, physical, or emotional problems), and finds that most do well in adoptive homes.
• Category: Family Relations > Adopted Children
• The Future of Children • Spring 1993

Adoption of Children with Special Needs
This paper discusses the history and current status of adoption services for special needs children and suggests ways in which to provide better services for these children and their adoptive parents.
• Category: Family Relations > Adopted Children
• The Future of Children • Spring 1993

Adoptions Australia 2002-03
This report provides adoption statistics for all regions of Australia, with information about adopted children, adoptive families, and birth mothers.
• Category: Family Relations > Adopted Children
• Australian Institute of Health and Welfare • 2003