ABC Adoptions - Adoption information and resources, message boards, email communities, and links to adoption professionals. Includes special sections for both birthmothers and adoptive parents.

The ABC's of Adoption - Basic information about international and domestic adoption, message board, and related links.

About.com: Adoption - Provides access to thousands of resources addressing all aspects of adoption. Includes coverage of international adoption issues.

Adopting.com - Listing of adoption resources on the Internet, organized in topical categories.

Adoption: A New Beginning - A Christian adoption resource center, with services for birthmothers and adoptive parents.

Adoption Council of Canada - Dedicated to finding homes for Canada's waiting children. Includes news, publications, legislation, events, research, viewpoints, and newsletters.

The Adoption Guide - Consumer protection and advocacy for adopting families, international or domestic. Site features news, articles, and resources.

Adoption History - Presents the history of open adoption and links to related content.

Adoption Information Line - Information about the adoption of children within the UK.

Adoption InterLink UK - General adoption information, articles, links to related resources, and notice board.

Adoption Learning Partners - Offers web-based educational courses for all members of the adoption triad. Includes course descriptions and a mailing list.

Adoption Open - Features information about workshops and support groups, profiles of families hoping to adopt (from specific agencies) and resources.

Adoption Triad Outreach - Features a free reunion registry, chat rooms, discussion boards, bookstore, online newsletter, virtual postcards, and a links library.

Adoption Web Ring - A public service ring dedicated to the best interests of adoption triad members.

Adoption.com - Information on international, special needs, independent, and private adoptions. Includes message boards, news, and a directory of adoption professionals.

Adoptioninformation.com - General information and resources.

Adoption-net - Presents information about adoption and fostering with a United Kingdom focus. News, child profiles, bulletin board, and glossary of related terms are included.

Adoptions.com - Features a directory of adoption professionals, and the Adoption SuperCalendar of adoption events, meetings and conferences in every state.

AdoptUSKids - National photo listing service for children awaiting adoption across the United States.

American RadioWorks - Finding Home - A series of written stories, as well as a one-hour audio broadcast, which explore fifty years of experience with international adoption by Americans. Additional materials include photojournals, interviews, audio diaries, and supplementary stories.

BAAF Adoption & Fostering - London-based charity with offices in Wales, Scotland and England. Offers resources for those wishing to adopt and related professionals. Includes membership details, news, legal details and directory of agencies.

BellaOnline: Adoption - Presents articles about a variety of adoption related topics.

Canada Adopts - Features a range of adoption-related information. Includes a message board, Waiting Parents Registry, list of famous adoptions, calendar of events, and links to Canadian resources, including agencies and support groups.

Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Omaha - Services include adoption, reunion and unplanned pregnancy counseling.

Center for Adoption Policy - Provides research, analysis, advice and education to practitioners and the public about legislation and practices governing domestic and inter-country adoption in the United States and the rest of the world. Includes publications and information about projects.

Child & Family Services - Provides former Michigan members (adult adoptees, birth parents, adult siblings, and adoptive parents) with post-adoption services and intermediary search services.

Child Of My Dreams - Offers infertility and adoption information and support. Includes a discussion of common myths, newsletters, and message boards.

Children's Home Society - Not for profit organization that provides adoption and birth parent services.

Council on Adoptable Children of Texas - A non-profit organization of citizens concerned about children who wait for permanent homes.

Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption - Encourages adoption in the United States and advocates for children in the public welfare system. Offers a beginner's guide, videos, and other adoption resources.

Deaf Adoption News Service - Listings of deaf children waiting to be adopted, and a mailing list.

Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute - Information for adoption professionals: research, policy, and practice.

Families for Private Adoption - Non-profit volunteer organization advocating and encouraging private (non-agency) adoption. Meetings held in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area.

Famous Adoptees - A biographical dictionary of famous or otherwise influential adoptees and others raised for significant periods outside their birth families.

Famous and Remarkable Adoptees, Foster Children and Others - Short profiles, many with bibliographical and hypertext links, of famous or influential people who were adopted, fostered or otherwise raised by people other than their birth parents.

Fostering or Adopting Children in Need - Information about transitional residence and fostering of troubled children.

GotTrouble.com - Family Law - Information about adoption, qualities of adoptive parents which agencies are looking for, and other legal issues.

Indiana's Adoption Initiative - Statewide effort to find permanence for all children with special needs. Picture book registry, information about the process, and newsletter.

Lets Talk Adoption - Weekly radio show available on the Internet. Show schedule, brief host profile, and archives are presented.

Lund Family Center - Providing services for young women who are pregnant and parenting, families with young children and adoptive families.

Megilligan's Island - Information on special needs adoption and foster care in central Kentucky.

National Adoption Center - Portal to photo listings and resources, including chat, online courses, and articles.

National Adoption Foundation - Provides financial assistance, services and support to families. Contains information about programs, membership, and achievements.

North American Council on Adoptable Children - Post-adoptive articles and a "How to Adopt" section which provides an overview of issues and steps to take when considering domestic adoption through the foster care system.

Nurture Adopt - Resource for birthparents and adoptive parents. Includes profiles of waiting families, information about available situations, and links to support organizations, agencies, and financial help.

Older Child Adoption - Weekly online publication offering articles and information. Includes message board, bookstore and links.

PACT: An Adoption Alliance - Adoption-related services for children of color, their birthparents, and their adoptive parents.

Precious Kids Adoption - Features a registry of waiting families wanting to adopt, mailing list, articles, and information about scams.

State Mailing Lists - Directory of adoption related mailing lists across the United States.

Texas Coalition for Adoption Resources and Education - Advocates adoption laws that are in the best interest of all adoptees. Includes the Texas Adoption Registry, discussion forums, articles, newsletters and statistics.

Long Haul Productions: Dear Birth Mother - Suzanne, a single woman in her forties, after years of trying to become pregnant, decided to adopt an African-American baby. This is the story of her adoption quest. [29:00 streaming audio broadcast] (2005)

NPR : The Many Faces of Adoption - About 1.6 million American families have adopted children. In more and more cases, they are open adoptions. Four families share their stories. [Each story approximately 5 minutes in duration.] (December 24, 2004)