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12 Adoptive & Fostering Parenting Tips

Most of you remember learning skills for successful fostering and adopting during your foster parent training. These are invaluable skills that will help you to be better foster and adoptiv... [more]

Research & Statistics: Adoptees

Common Clinical Is... [more]

Adoption Statistics: Overview

In attempting to provide the most complete data currently available, Child Welfare Information Gateway believes it necessary to explain the limits of the data now available. The mos... [more]

Adoption Statistics: Hoping to Adopt

Since the end of World War II, interest in adoption primarily has focused on healthy, young infants. By the mid-1950's, the demand for healthy infants grew so significantly that it exceeded... [more]

Adoption Statistics: Placing Children

2% of unmarried women at any age place their child for adoption. (ChildTrends, 1995) The percentage of premarital births placed for adoption has decreased since the 1970s. Analyses... [more]

Adoption Statistics: Single Parents

According to the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, 33% of children adoption from Foster Care is by a single parent (U.S. DHHS, 2000). Research in the 1970s found that an estimated... [more]

International Adoption Costs

Before you figure out how you are going to pay for the adoption, you need some idea of the total cost of the adoption. (You need to know where you’re going before you can get there!) ... [more]

Adopting from the U.S. foster care system is generally the least expensive type of adoption, usually involving little or no cost, and states often provide subsidies to adoptive parents. Step... [more]

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