Overview - Adoption: An Undergraduate Research Guide - Research Guides at University of Wisconsin-Madison

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About This Guide

This Research Guide provides resources dealing with issues related to adoption, including open adoption, gay adoption, interracial adoption, variations in state laws and registries for adopted persons and birth parents.

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Overview Resources

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Child Welfare Information Gateway
"Resources on all aspects of domestic and intercountry adoption, including adoption from foster care." This site is "[a] service of the Children's Bureau, Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services."
Credo Reference
A collection of 100 reference tools that may be searched collectively or individually. It includes encyclopedias, dictionaries, atlases, statistical sources, biographical tools, thesauri, books of quotations, image collections, and more.
Intercountry Adoption: Office of Children's Issues, United States Department of State
Includes news, statistics, information for adoptive parents and adoptees, as well as country-specific information.
Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center
Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center (OVRC) provides viewpoint articles, topic overviews, statistics, primary documents, links to websites, and full-text magazine and newspaper articles related to controversial social issues.
The Adoption History Project
This site introduces the history of child adoption in the United States by profiling people, organizations, topics, and studies that shaped adoption during the twentieth century.