The following are resources I recommend for adoptees searching for understanding, and others who care about adoptees and want to know how to help.
Articles & Blog Posts
A Civil Right: Adoptees Should Have Access to Their Birth Certificates
A Day in the Life of An Adoptee: Accessing Records
A Picture Really Is Worth 1,000 Words
A Tool to Help Adoptees (Especially Children) Resolve Loss
Adoptee Perspectives on Adoption
Adoption: Trauma That Lasts a Lifetime
Amanda's Adoption Thoughts
Amanda's Guide to Adoptee Rights
An Open Letter to Adoptive Parents or Potential Adoptive Parents & Anyone Who Has Even Considered Adoption
Before I Was Adopted
Dear Christian: It's Not the Same Adoption
Five Foot Four With Brown Hair
Genetic Mirroring: The Missing Piece for Many Adoptees
Going Back So You Can Go Forward
Letter to My Prospective Adoptive Mother
Life Issues Facing Adult Adoptees
Life Long Issues In Adoption
Primal Wound Haunts Many Adopted Teenagers
Secondary Adoptee Rejection in Adoption Reunions
Setting the Record Straight: What Were Birth Mothers Promised?
Statistics on the Effects of Adoption
The Baby Scoop Era Research Initiative
The Eight Great Fallacies of Adoption
The Primal Wound
What "Mother May I?" Means When It Comes to Adoptee Equality
20 Things Adopted Kids Wish Their Parents Knew
30 Things I Wish I Knew Before Adoption Entered My Life
Books
The Primal Wound: Understanding the Adopted Child by Nancy Newton Verrier
Movies
For the Life of Me
Adoptee Blogs
Declassified Adoptee
(Adoptee Amanda writes with beautiful insight on what it's like to be
adopted, and is truly making a difference in adoption rights and
reform.)
Lost Daughters (A
collaborative blog featuring lots of adult adoptee women who write
powerful posts sharing their feelings about adoption as well as speaking
out about reform.)
Adoption Voices Magazine (Insightful articles that provide great prospective.)
Adopted Me: My Life As a Late Discovery Adoptee (Jeff Hancock shares his experience of life as a late discovery adoptee.)
Between (Karen Pickell writes about adoption issues at this insightful blog.)
iAdoptee (Julie, a 40-something copywriter, wife and mother of two writes heartfelt and inspiring posts about life as an adult adoptee.)
Insert Bad Movie Title Here (Jenn writes about her adoption and experience here.)
Love is Not a Pie (Rebecca shares insights about adoption, foster adoption, open adoption and family preservation.)
Laura Dennis: The Adaptable (Adopted) Ex-Pat Mommy (Laura, author of Adopted Reality, shares here on her blog about the realities of life as an adoptee.)
Neither Here Nor There (Peach describes herself as an adult "adaptee" reunited with her family for two decades.)
No Apologies for Being Me (Baby Scoop Era adoptee Lynn Grubb shares her experiences of living as an adoptee.)
Reunion Eyes: Kathleen ~ Cathleen (Cathy Heslin's blog discusses her experience of being in reunion with her birth family for the last twenty-two years. It's about identity and the
integration of her life with her birth mother's and the unique blended
family that formed as a result.)
Family Ties (Susan, a 61 year old mother of two, grandmother of six, and an adult adoptee advocating for her rights, shares her journey here.)
The Warrior Princess Diaries (Michelle is a recently reunited adult adoptee and a mother through birth
and adoption. Born in the late 1960’s, she was adopted as an infant in
what was then a typical closed adoption. She shares her side of the story, at her blog.)
First Mother Blogs/Support Groups
Living Through Today (LisaAnne shares her journey of life as a birth mother.)
First Mother Forum (Blogs & Support Group)
Sunflower Moms (Birth Mother Support Group)
Sites Dedicated to Reform & Adoptee Rights
Adoptee Rights Coalition
Green Ribbon Campaign for Open Records
Adult Adoptees Advocating for Change
Origins USA
Concerned United Birthparents
The Mother's Project
Amanda's Guide to Adoptee Rights (This explains adoptee rights clearly and concisely better than any site I've read. To receive more information from Amanda's extensive research, I encourage you to frequent her blog, The Declassified Adoptee.)
Sites That Provide Support to Partners of Adoptees
Partners of Adoptees (A place for partners (spouses or significant others) of adults who were
adopted as children to support each other while we support our
partners/spouses/significant others.)
Sites Dedicated to Helping Adoptees Search:
Priscilla Stone Sharp (Search Angel)
The ALMA Society
Mary Lynn Fuller's Search Tips
Soaring Angels
G's Adoption Registry
The Adoption Database
