Families: An Undergraduate Research Guide : Adoption
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News
- Newspaper Source PlusNewspaper Source Plus includes 1,520 full-text newspapers, providing more than 28 million full-text articles.
- Newspaper Paper Research GuideThis guide describes sources for current and historical newspapers available in print, electronically, and on microfilm through the UW-Madison Libraries. These sources are categorized by pages: Current, Historical, Local/Madison, Wisconsin, US, Alternative/Ethnic, and International.
Organizations
- Adoption in WisconsinWisconsin Department of Children & Families provide several resources on adoption in Wisconsin.
- Wisconsin Adoption Information CenterThe Adoption Information Center was started in 2002, with funding from The Wisconsin Department Children and Families.
- North American Council on Adoptable Children (NACAC)The NACAC is comprised of members of citizen adoption groups and other individuals from judicial, child welfare, and legislative areas.
- Child Welfare League of America (CWLA)The Child Welfare League of America has an adoption fact sheet gives statistics on domestic and intercountry adoptions.
About Adoption
This guide provides resources on issues related to adoption, including open adoption, LGBT families and adoption, interracial adoption, variations in state laws, and registries for adopted persons and birth parents.
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Overview Resources - Background Information
- The Adoption History ProjectThis 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.
- Child Welfare Information GatewayResources 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.
- CQ ResearcherContains weekly in-depth reports that cover the most current and controversial issues of the day with complete summaries, insight into all sides of the issues, bibliographies and more.
- Intercountry Adoption: Office of Children's Issues, United States Department of StateIncludes news, statistics, information for adoptive parents and adoptees, as well as country-specific information.
- Opposing Viewpoints Resource CenterOpposing 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.
Books
Adoption: A Brief Social and Cultural History by Peter Conn
ISBN: 9781137332202Publication Date: 2013-01-28Adoption and Surrogate Pregnancy by Faith Merino; Pamela Anne Quiroz (Foreword by)
ISBN: 0816080879Publication Date: 2010-06-01Reframing Transracial Adoption: Adopted Koreans, White Parents, and the Politics of Kinship by Kristi Brian
ISBN: 1439901848Publication Date: 2012-05-11White Parents, Black Children: Experiencing Transracial Adoption by Darron T. Smith; Cardell K. Jacobson; Brenda G. Juarez
ISBN: 1442207620Publication Date: 2011-10-27The Child Catchers: Rescue, Trafficking, and the New Gospel of Adoption by Kathryn Joyce
ISBN: 9781586489434Publication Date: 2013-04-16Transracial and Intercountry Adoptions by Rowena Fong (Editor); Ruth McRoy (Editor)
ISBN: 0231540825Publication Date: 2016-01-26Saving International Adoption by Mark Montgomery; Irene Powell
Call Number: ebookISBN: 9780826521729Publication Date: 2018-01-30
Articles - Scholarly and Popular
- Academic Search PremierIncludes scholarly and popular articles on many topics.
- SocINDEXIncludes articles on Sociology and Social Sciences topics.
Statistics and Data
- Administration for Children & FamiliesThe Children's Bureau provides State and national data on adoption and foster care, child abuse and neglect, and child welfare.
- Child Welfare League of America: Adoption Advocacy CenterLegal and advocacy information about adoption from the Child Welfare League of America