Question of the Week
Q. What are some resources for people who want to adopt a child?
Books
- Adoption: opposing viewpoints
edited by Roman Espejo
Call Number: 362.734 ADOPTIO 2002
- Adoption for dummies
by Tracy Barr and Katrina Carlisle
Call Number: 362.734 BARR
- Families by law: an adoption reader
by edited by Naomi R. Cahn and Joan Heifetz Hollinger
Call Number: 346.7301 FAMILIE
- Attaching in adoption: practical tools for today's parents
by Deborah D. Gray
Call Number: 362.734 GRAY
- Adoption agencies, orphanages, and maternity homes: an historical directory
by Reg Niles
Call Number: 362.734 NILES
- Adoption choices: a guidebook to national and international adoption resources
by Ellen Paul
Call Number: R 362.734 PAUL
- The adoption directory: the most comprehensive guide to family-building options including state statutes on adoption, public and private adoption agencies, adoption exchanges, foreign requirements and adoption agencies, independent adoption services, foster parenting, and support groups
by Ellen Paul
Call Number: R 362.734 ADOPTIO 1995
- Welcome home! an international and nontraditional adoption reader
edited by Lita LInzer Schwartz and Florence W. Kaslow
Call Number: 362.734 WELCOME
- Twenty things adopted kids wish their adoptive parents knew
by Sherrie Edridge
Call Number: 362.734 ELDRIDGE
Web Sites:
Community Resources
- Adventist Adoption and Family Services
PO Box 87636
Vancouver, WA 98687-7636
360-892-1572
- International Children's Care, Inc.
2711 NE 134th Way
Vancouver, WA 98686
360-573-0429
- Open Adoption and Family Services, Inc.
5200 SE Macadam, Suite 250
Portland, OR 97201
503-226-4870
|
These are just a few of the thousands of questions FVRL's reference staff answer each year.
Get answers to your own questions via
“Ask a Librarian”
or call the library's Telephone Information desk.
Previous Questions
|
