Child and Family Services Act
The purpose of this Act is to promote the best interests, protection and well being of children in Canada.
• Category: Parenthood/Childrearing > Adoption
• Government of Ontario • 1990

The Adoption Tax Credit: Is it an Effective Approach to Promote Foster Care Adoption?
This brief argues that the United States Adoption Tax Credit established to encourage foster care adoption does little to promote this cause while benefiting foreign and private adoptions, particularly among higher income families.
• Category: Parenthood/Childrearing > Adoption
• Child Trends • 2007

Navigating Family Transitions: Evidence from the General Social Survey 2006
This paper explores life transitions that are common to Canadian families including the birth or adoption of a child, maternal/paternal leave, common-law marriage dissolution, traditional marriage dissolution and families' use of support services during these times of transition.
• Category: Parenthood/Childrearing > Adoption
• Statistics Canada • June 13, 2007

Bringing Up Baby: Adoption, Marriage, and the Best Interests of the Child
This study argues that children waiting for adoption should be placed with married parents whenever possible.
• Category: Parenthood/Childrearing > Adoption
• Marshall-Wythe School of Law, Williamsburg Virginia • February 2006

Age and Fertility: A Guide for Patients
This paper explains how age can effect women's fertility and how older women face an increased risk of infertility, miscarriage and chromosomal abnormality in their newborns.
• Category: Parenthood/Childrearing > Adoption
• The American Society for Reproductive Medicine • 2003

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: Parenthood/Childrearing > Adoption
• The Future of Children • 2004

Drug-Exposed Kids Thrive in Adoptive Homes
This paper explores the effects of prenatal exposure to drugs and looks at how these children fare in adoptive families.
• Category: Parenthood/Childrearing > Adoption
• Adoptive Families Association of British Columbia • 1999

Crisis Pregnancy and Pregnancy Decision Making: An Outline of Influencing Factors
This report examines psychological, relationship, situational, and contextual factors that place women at risk of experiencing an unwanted pregnancy.
• Category: Parenthood/Childrearing > Adoption
• Crisis Pregnancy Agency • July 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: Parenthood/Childrearing > Adoption
• 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: Parenthood/Childrearing > Adoption
• 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: Parenthood/Childrearing > Adoption
• 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: Parenthood/Childrearing > Adoption
• 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: Parenthood/Childrearing > Adoption
• Australian Institute of Health and Welfare • 2004

Analysis of Secondary Data Assessing the Field of Post-Adoption Services: Family Needs, Program Models, and Evaluation Issues
This report analyses secondary adoption data to examine the rapidly expanding field of post-adoption services in North Carolina and California.
• Category: Parenthood/Childrearing > Adoption
• U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, and the Administration for Children and Families • December 01, 2002

Adoption Dynamics: Comparative Results for Subpopulations
This paper discusses the increasing rate of adoption from foster care in the United States in the 1990s and seeks to determine if any particular population subgroups benefited to a greater or lesser extent from these changes.
• Category: Parenthood/Childrearing > Adoption
• Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services • November 2002

Growth in the Adoption Population
This report examines the possible effects of changes to federal policies on the relative number of children adopted from foster care and remaining in foster care in the United States from 2000 to 2020.
• Category: Parenthood/Childrearing > Adoption
• Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services • March 2002

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: Parenthood/Childrearing > Adoption
• Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services • August 2002

Understanding Adoption Subsidies: An Analysis of AFCARS Data
This report uses data from the Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System (AFCARS) to examine the extent to which subsidies provided to adoptive families aid in the attainment of permanency and child well-being goals.
• Category: Parenthood/Childrearing > Adoption
• U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation • January 2005

Should Homosexuals Adopt? Why Adoption Is Not a Homosexual “Rights” Issue
This paper provides an overview of American laws pertaining to the adoption of children by same-sex couples and reviews research pertaining to the impact of same-sex parenting on children.
• Category: Parenthood/Childrearing > Adoption
• North Carolina Family Policy Council • August 2001

Promoting Adoption Reform: Congress Can Give Children Another Chance
This paper looks at current adoption legislation, and what Congress can do to improve the laws and policies by removing some of the uneccessary barriers involved in this procedure.
• Category: Parenthood/Childrearing > Adoption
• The Heritage Foundation • July 27, 1995

The Adoption of Looked After Children: A Scoping Review of Research
This paper examines literature pertaining to the adoption of children from public care.
• Category: Parenthood/Childrearing > Adoption
• Social Care Institute for Excellence • November 2003

Children of Colour in the Child Welfare System
This paper discusses the issues and experiences faced by children of colour in the child welfare system, and looks specifically at rates of child abuse, foster home placements, and adoption of these children.
• Category: Parenthood/Childrearing > Adoption
• Child Welfare League of America • January 2004

International Adoption: Trends and Issues
This brief paper examines trends in international and US adoptions by age and gender.
• Category: Parenthood/Childrearing > Adoption
• Child Welfare League of America • November 2003

Kinship Care Report: Review and Analysis of Federal and State Laws, Policies and Procedures
This paper discusses laws, policies and legal proceedings that relate to kinship care in the United States.
• Category: Parenthood/Childrearing > Adoption
• Georgia Health Policy Center • December 2001

Making Children a National Priority 2002: Children, Youth, and Families in the United States
This fact sheet presents American national data on family issues, including foster care, adoption, parental substance abuse, child poverty, and welfare.
• Category: Parenthood/Childrearing > Adoption
• Child Welfare League of America • 2002

Adoption: Numbers and Trends
This brief fact sheet addresses the number of adoptions in the US for various years and states, as well as the different types of adoption including public, private, kinship, stepparent and international.
• Category: Parenthood/Childrearing > Adoption
• US Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families • 2000

Homosexual Parenting
This article examines the issues of homosexual adoption and parenting and their impact on children.
• Category: Parenthood/Childrearing > Adoption
• 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: Parenthood/Childrearing > Adoption
• The Future of Children • Spring 1993

Agency Versus Independent Adoption: The Case for Agency Adoption
This article argues that there should be a single, uniform process of adoption in order to ensure that certain standards are maintained and that children, adoptive parents, and birth parents are protected.
• Category: Parenthood/Childrearing > Adoption
• 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: Parenthood/Childrearing > Adoption
• 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: Parenthood/Childrearing > Adoption
• 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: Parenthood/Childrearing > Adoption
• 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: Parenthood/Childrearing > Adoption
• 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: Parenthood/Childrearing > Adoption
• The Future of Children • Spring 1993

Placement Stability Study
This study examines the foster care system's ability to place children in stabilized care.
• Category: Parenthood/Childrearing > Adoption
• Children and Family Research Center • June 1999

Post-Permanency Services
This paper presents the need for further services to families facing the permanency of a previously fostered child, whether following reunification with biological parents, permanent kinship care, or adoption.
• Category: Parenthood/Childrearing > Adoption
• Casey Family Programs • 2003

The State of the Children: An Examination of Government-Run Foster Care
This report presents findings on the number of children in foster care, the number of those that are legally adoptable, and gauges the success of finding adoptive homes for foster children.
• Category: Parenthood/Childrearing > Adoption
• National Center for Policy Alternatives • August 01, 1997

Children of Color in Foster Care and the Multiethnic Placement Act: The Experiences of Families Involved in Transracial and Same Race Adoptions in an Illinois Sample (Final Report)
This study looks at the expereinces of transracial adoptive families.
• Category: Parenthood/Childrearing > Adoption
• Children and Family Research Center • May 10, 2000

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: Parenthood/Childrearing > Adoption
• Australian Institute of Health and Welfare • 2003

International Adoptions Up: 2,181 in 2003
This fact sheet examines international adoption rates in Canada for the year 2003, and looks at the number of children adopted by country of origin, age, and gender.
• Category: Parenthood/Childrearing > Adoption
• Adoption Council of Canada • June 28, 2004

Languishing in Foster Care
This brief analysis discusses the problems with the current foster care program, focusing on concerns about the high number of foster care children who are not being adopted due to flaws in the system.
• Category: Parenthood/Childrearing > Adoption
• National Center for Policy Analysis • May 14, 1997

A Report on the Experiences of Lesbians, Gays and Bisexuals in America and the Public’s Views on Issues and Policies Related to Sexual Orientation
This document gives the results of two polls done by the Kaiser Family Foundation, one on the experiences of lesbians, gays and bisexuals and one on the public's attitudes towards this group and the related public policy issues.
• Category: Parenthood/Childrearing > Adoption
• The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation • 2000

Did Abortion Legalization Reduce the Number Of Unwanted Children? Evidence from Adoptions
This study found that the legalization of abortion in the United States led to a substantial decline in the number of adoptions of children who had been born to white mothers.
• Category: Parenthood/Childrearing > Adoption
• The Alan Guttmacher Institute • February 01, 2002

Homosexual Parenting: Does it Make a Difference? A Re-Evaluation of the Research With Adoption and Fostering in Mind.
This paper examines past research on homosexual parenting and adoption, and evaluates its accuracy and legitimacy.
• Category: Parenthood/Childrearing > Adoption
• The Christian Institute • February 16, 2002

Finding Permanent Homes for Foster Children: Issues Raised by Kinship Care
This paper examines the impact of kinship care on a child's likelihood of being adopted.
• Category: Parenthood/Childrearing > Adoption
• The Urban Institute • April 01, 2003