Resources for Adoptive Parents

Adoption Involving Drug/Alcohol Use

General

• My Story of Pregnancy and Addiction (pdf)
• Evidence Based Intervention for Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome (pdf)
• Ethical and Legal Guidelines to Improve Treatment for Drug Exposed Infants (pdf)
• Drug Use and Pregnancy (pdf)
• Caring for a Baby With Drug Withdrawal Symptoms (pdf)
• Alcohol, Drugs, and Babies: Do You Need to Worry (pdf)
• Adopting a Substance Exposed Child (pdf)
• Updated Guideline for Treating Babies Exposed to Drugs in the Womb (pdf)
• The New Moral Panic Over Drug Dependent Babies (pdf)
• On Cape Cod an Influx of Drug Dependent Newborns (pdf)
• Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome: The Use of Clonidine as a Treatment (pdf)
• Developmental Consequences of Fetal Exposure to Drugs (pdf)
• Detoxing After Delivery (pdf)

Opiate Exposure

• Treating the Tiniest Opioid Patients (pdf)
• Heroin Addiction and Pregnancy (pdf)
• How Heroin Affects Pregnant Women (pdf)
• Behavior and Development Patterns in Children Born to Heroin Addicted and Methadone Addicted Mothers (pdf)
• Behavior and Attention Problems in 8-year-old Children with Prenatal Opiate and Poly-Substance Exposure (pdf)
• Unexpected Cause of Neonatal Seizure: In-Utero Heroin Exposure (pdf)
• Outcome of Children Born to Heroin Addicted Mothers 25 Years Later (pdf)
• March of Dimes Heroine and Pregnancy (pdf)
• Information on Methadone Treatment (pdf)
• White Americas Heroin Problem (pdf)
• The Pain Points of Opioid Policy (pdf)
• Children of the Opioid Epidemic Are Flooding Foster Homes, America is Turning a Blind Eye (pdf)

Ecstacy/MDMA/”Molly” Exposure

• Neurobehavioral Outcomes of Infants Exposed to MDMA Ecstasy and Other Recreational Drugs In-Utero (pdf)
• Long-Term Behavioral Consequences of Prenatal MDMA Exposure (pdf)
• Ecstasy in Pregnancy (pdf)
• Study of Harmful Effects of Infants Prenatally Exposed to Ecstasy (pdf)
• One-Year Outcomes of Prenatal Exposure to MDMA and Other Recreational Drugs (pdf)
• Neurohormonal Perspective on Outcomes on Mothers Use of Ecstasy During Pregnancy (pdf)

Cocaine Exposure

• Cocaine and Pregnancy (pdf)
• Longitudinal Changes of Amygdala and Default Mode Activation in Adolescents Prenatally Exposed to Cocaine (pdf)
• Four-Year Language Outcomes of Children Exposed to Cocaine In-Utero (pdf)
• Cocaine Use in Pregnancy (pdf)
• Visuospatial Working Memory in School-Aged Childen Exposed In-Utero to Cocaine (pdf)
• Maternal Cocaine Use During Pregnancy Effects of Newborn Infants (pdf)
• Maternal Cocaine Use and Mother Toddler Aggression (pdf)
• Cocaine Use During Pregnancy and Health Outcome After 10 Years (pdf)
• Chronic Cocaine Exposure During Pregnancy Increases Postpartum Neuroendocrine Stress (pdf)

Circumcision Resources

• Efforts to Ban Circumcision in California (pfd)
• Why I Didn’t Circumcise My Son (pdf)

Financial Assistance

• Affording Your Adoption (pdf)
• Gift of Adoption (adoption grant website)

LGBTQ Adoption

• LGBT Adoption and Fostering Week (pdf)
• Why More Women Want 2 Dads to Adopt Their Babies (pdf)
• The Right to Adopt (pdf)
• Supreme Court Reverses Alabama Court the Denied Lesbian Woman (pdf)
• LGBTQIA Ally Training (pdf)

Home Study Resources

• Brief Home Study Checklist (pdf)
• Home Safety Grid (MA) (pdf)
• Home Safety Grid (ME) (pdf)

Native American Adoption (ICWA)

• California Supreme Court Will Not Intervene in Case of Part Native American Child (pdf)
• Adoptive Couple vs. Baby Girl Native American Taken from Family (pdf)

International Adoption

• Childrens’ and Parents’ Thoughts and Feelings About Adoption, Birth Culture Identity, and Discrimination (pdf)
• A South Korean Adoptee (pdf)
• When the Kremlin Says “Adoptions” It Means Sanctions’ (pdf)
• The Bias Against African American Children in the U.S. Adoptions (pdf)
• Simultaneous Placements Risks of Simultaneous Intercountry Placements (pdf)
• Immigration of Adopted and Prospective Adoptive Children (pdf)

Intersex Adoption

• When a Child Is Born Neither Boy Nor Girl – Straddling the Gender Divide (pdf)
• 9 Ways Intersex Youth Want You to Support Them (pdf)
• Why I Am Proud of My Intersex Family (pdf)
• What We Wish Our Parents Knew (pdf)
• What We Wish Our Friends Knew (pdf)
• What To Do If You Have an Intersex Child (pdf)
• This Is What It’s Like To Discover You’re Intersex As A Teen (pdf)
• Things You Only Know If You Are Born Intersex (pdf)
• NYC Issues First US Intersex Birth Certificate (pdf)
• “None of the Above” a Novel by I.W. Gregorio (pdf)
• My Life as an Intersexual (pdf)
• Information for Parents from the International Organization for Intersex People (pdf)
• A New Era for Intersex Rights (pdf)

Open Adoption

• Open Adoption: The Ins and Outs (pdf)
• Entitlement vs. Ownership of Adopted Children (pdf)
• 2015 Nebraska Open Adoption (pdf)
• Perception of Open Adoption (pdf)
• Open Adoption as a Standard Practice Position Statment (pdf)
• Open Adoption as a Family Form (pdf)

Transgender Adoption

• Transgender Terminology (pdf)
• Transgender Adoptive Parents (pdf)
• What To Expect When You’re A Trans Dad (pdf)
• A Legal Guide for Trans People and Their Advocates Trans Parents (pdf)
• 10 Misconceptions Every Trans Ally Needs to Understand (pdf)

Transracial Adoption

• Transracial Adoption (pdf)
• Transracial Adoption Resources (pdf)
• The Parenting Dilemmas Of Transracial Adoption (pdf)
• Pros and Cons of Transracial Adoption (pdf)
• Family Resemblance in Transracial Adoption (pdf)
• Dear White Parents of My Black Child’s Friends, I Need Your Help (pdf)
• We’re Indian American With Adopted White Children And Here’s What People Ask Us (pdf)
• Transracial Same Race Adoptions and the Need for Multiple Measures of Adolescent Adjustment (pdf)
• Transracial Parenting in Foster Care and Adoption (pdf)
• Transracial Family Coaching Information (pdf)
• They’re All My Own (pdf)
• They Don’t Know What It’s Like to Be in My Shoes: Topic Avoidance About Race in Transracial Adoptive Families (pdf)

Intimacy After Infertility

• 6 Ways Infertility Impacts A Relationship (pdf)
• 5 Women Share How Infertility Affected Their Relationships (pdf)
• 4 Ways Infertility Affects Marriage (pdf)
• When Sex Becomes a Chore (pdf)
• When Infertility Affects Your Marriage (pdf)
• The Emotional Effects of Infertility on the Couple (pdf)
• Pregnancy Loss and Infertility Impact on Your Marriage (pdf)
• Marriage Makeover (pdf)
• Infertility Can Lead to Isolation and Impact on Couples Relationships (pdf)
• Infertility Almost Ruined My Marriage (pdf)
• Infertility and Your Relationship (pdf)
• How Infertility Affects Marriage (pdf)
• Becoming A Couple Again (pdf)

Vaccination Resources

• New Study Emphasizes Harm of Vaccine Refusals (pdf)
• Playing with Unvaccinated Babies (pdf)
• The Vaccination Paradox (pdf)
• The Real Reason Kids Aren’t Getting Vaccines (pdf)
• Unvaccinated Children to Be Banned from Washington Childcare Centers (pdf)
• Gardasil Myths Debunked by Snopes.com (pdf)
• Your Biggest Risk of Measles May Be a Trip to Europe (pdf)
• 3 Charts Show How Vaccines Have Impacted 20th Century Diseases (pdf)
• Children of Anti-Vaxxers Are The Biggest Victims of Measles Outbreaks (pdf)
• Injection vs. Ingestions Myths and Facts (pdf)

Travel

• The Ultimate Guide to Adoption Travel (website article)