Institute Publications
The following is a comprehensive list of all publications, presentations, books, conference proceedings, press releases, and testimonies of the Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute listed by topic. For inquiries and questions, please email info@adoptioninstitute.org.
To view a chronological list of all original research conducted by the Institute, see Institute Research or of just policy briefs, see Policy & Practice Papers. For a listing of current Institute initiatives, see Programs & Projects and other Institute products including conferences, books and events.
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Adoption Attitude National Surveys
Title: Benchmark Adoption Survey: Report on the Findings
Author: Conducted by Princeton Survey Research Associates for the Adoption Institute. Washington, D.C.: Princeton Survey Research Associates.Published: 1997 October
Document Type: White Paper (56 pages)
Availability: PDF Full Report | Web Page | Press release
The Adoption Institute's 1997 Benchmark Adoption Survey was the first national public opinion research on American perceptions of adoption.
Title: Changing the Image of Adoption
Author: Madelyn FreundlichPublished: Presented at Adoptive Families Today, Schaumburg, Illinois, November 8, 1998.
Document Type: Powerpoint Presentation
Availability: Web Page
Title: 2002 National Adoption Attitudes Survey
Author: Conducted by Harris Interactive for the Adoption Institute and Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption.Published: 2002
Document Type: White Paper
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Findings from the 2002 National Adoption Attitudes Survey, sponsored by the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption, in cooperation with the Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute, were released June 19, 2002. The landmark study examines public support for, experience with and consideration of adoption, in addition to Americans' views about foster care adoption.
Americans with Disability Act
Title: The Americans with Disabilities Act: What Adoption Agencies Need to Know
Author: Madelyn FreundlichPublished: 1997
Document Type: Policy Perspectives
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Title: The Americans with Disabilities Act: Frequently Asked Questions
Author: Madelyn FreundlichPublished: 1997
Document Type: Policy Perspectives
Availability: Web Page
Title: Legal Update: Decision Under the Americans with Disabilities Act
Author: Lisa Peterson, Esq.Published: No date
Document Type: Policy Perspectives
Availability: Web Page
Title: The Americans with Disabilities Act
Author: Madelyn FreundlichPublished: Presented at the Adoption Exchange Association, Denver, Colorado, October 8-10, 1998.
Document Type: Powerpoint Presentation
Availability: Web Page
Title: The Americans with Disabilities Act
Author: Madelyn FreundlichPublished: Presented at the New Jersey Adoption Coalition, Trenton, New Jersey, May 20, 1999.
Document Type: Powerpoint Presentation
Availability: Web Page
Title: Adoption and the Americans with Disabilities Act
Author: Madelyn FreundlichPublished: 2000. Washington, DC: Child Welfare League of America Press.
Document Type: Book
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Developed by the Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute and published by CWLA. Since the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) was signed into law in 1990, adoption agencies have been on notice that they must exercise caution when using disability-related criteria in the selection of adoptive parents. Part I of this book reviews the nondiscrimination mandates of the ADA, discusses who it protects, outlines sanctions for violations, and describes relevant case law. Part II addresses the extent to which ADA protects individuals with drug addictions, who are HIV-positive, and who have psychiatric disorders. Part III provides case examples in which the ADA may apply and identifies considerations agencies might take into account in making decisions about prospective parents based on disability-related concerns.
Birthparents
Title: Safeguarding the Rights and Well-Being of Birthparents in the Adoption Process
Author: Susan SmithPublished: 2006 November. New York NY: Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute
Document Type: White Paper
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This study, published in November 2006 as part of National Adoption Awareness month, represents the most thorough, intensive and sophisticated effort to date to understand contemporary infant adoption, particularly as it relates to the least-understood and most-stigmatized participants in the process: the women and men usually termed "birthparents."
Clinical Mediation
Title: Clinical Mediation
Author: Madelyn FreundlichPublished: Presented at the New York State Citizens Coalition for Children, Albany, New York, May 14-15, 1999.
Document Type: Powerpoint Presentation
Availability: Web Page
Education about Adoption
Title: Resource Guide for Educators
Author: Evan B. Donaldson Adoption InstitutePublished: No date
Document Type: Resource Paper
Availability: Web Page
Title: Adoption Training Curriculum
Author: Evan B. Donaldson Adoption InstitutePublished: No date
Document Type: Resource Paper
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Title: Adoption in the Schools: A Lot to Learn
Authors: Susan Livingston Smith, Debbie RileyPublished: 2006 September. New York: Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute
Document Type: Policy Perspective
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The Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute released this Policy Perspective brief in September 2006 which for the first time brings together research and years of broad experience on a range of issues that affect millions of boys and girls nationwide. The report points out that, as adoption becomes increasingly normalized in the United States, more and more adoptive families are confronting challenges when their children attend school - and it offers recommendations for how educators can better meet those challenges. The report also states that educating educators about the realities of adoption is a diversity issue and also a fairness issue, because adopted and foster children are sometimes derided in ways we would never accept if the taunting or stereotyping referred to other aspects of their being - such as race, gender, ethnicity, religion or disability.
Title: Adoptive Parent Preparation Project Phase I: Meeting the Mental Health and Developmental Needs of Adopted Children
Author: David BrodzinksyPublished: 2008 February. New York NY: Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute
Document Type: Policy Brief (18 pages)
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This publication, released in February, represents the initial phase of a broad, long-term Institute project designed to shape best-practice standards that will assist adoption professionals in the preparation and education of adoptive parents. This policy and practice paper outlines best practices for preparing adoptive parents to meet the mental health and developmental needs of their children.
Ethics and Adoption
Title: The Intricate World of Adoption Ethics
Author: Madelyn FreundlichPublished: Presented at American Adoption Congress, San Francisco, California, November 11-14, 1998.
Document Type: Powerpoint Presentation
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Title: Ethics and Adoption: Challenges for Today and the Future – Summary of Conference Proceedings
Author: Evan B. Donaldson Adoption InstitutePublished: 2000 March. New York, NY: Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute (74 pages)
Document Type: Conference Proceedings
Availability: Web Page
The Adoption Institute sponsored the first ever conference designed to bring together those who are concerned about the ethical issues that affect the practice of adoption in all arenas. "Ethics and Adoption: Challenges for Today," held in November 1999 provided opportunities to learn and to actively explore the key ethical issues that confront adoption today and in the future, with key findings published by the Institute.
Title: Adoption and Ethics, Volume 1: The Role of Race, Culture, and National Origin in Adoption
Author: Madelyn FreundlichPublished: 2000. Washington, D.C.: Child Welfare League of America Press.
Document Type: Book
Availability: Purchase through Child Welfare League of America Press
Published in conjunction with the Child Welfare Leagues of America, this is the first in a four-part series examining ethical issues in adoption. This volume explores the questions: What role does race, culture, and national origin place in an adoptee's personal identity? To what extent should racial and cultural similarities and differences between adoptive parents and children be taken into account? This volume, first in a series developed by the Evan B. Donaldson Institute, provides a synthesis of current research, literature, and legislation in three areas: transracial adoptions, adoptions of American Indian children, and international adoptions. Arguments from all sides of these controversial issues are clearly presented, providing a complete overview of this important area of current adoption practice.
Title: Adoption and Ethics, Volume 2: The Market Forces in Adoption
Author: Madelyn FreundlichPublished: 2000. Washington, D.C.: Child Welfare League of America Press.
Document Type: Book
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This is the second volume in a series developed by the Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute and published with the Child Welfare League of America. The role of money and power in the context of adoption and the extent of accountability have become critical questions in adoption policy and practice today. These issues arise in three arenas: the adoption of infants in the United States, the adoption of children in foster care, and international adoption. This volume considers each of these in relation to market forces and the role of marketing in adoption both by prospective adoptive parents and adoption professionals.
Title: Adoption and Ethics, Volume 3: The Impact of Adoption on Members of the Triad
Author: Madelyn FreundlichPublished: 2000. Washington, D.C.: Child Welfare League of America Press.
Document Type: Book
Availability: Purchase through Child Welfare League of America Press
This volume, the third in a series developed by the Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute, considers how adoption practice and policy impact those who are the "clients" of adoption services–adoptees, birth parents, and adoptive parents. It explores the psychological, social, and cultural aspects of adoption for all members of the triad, and assesses the extent to which current policy and practice meet the needs of those whom adoption is designed to serve. The current understanding of the positive and negative effects of adoption on all parties is related to the ethical obligation of adoption professionals.
Title: Adoption and Ethics, Volume 4: Adoption and Assisted Reproduction
Author: Madelyn FreundlichPublished: 2000. Washington, D.C.: Child Welfare League of America Press.
Document Type: Book
Availability: Purchase through Child Welfare League of America Press
The growing use of assisted reproduction, including sperm donation, gamete donation, and surrogate motherhood, has raised a number of ethical issues in common with adoption. These issues include the parties' legal and social roles, anonomity, and concerns related to the growing role of money and power of market forces in each area. This book reviews not only the available literature, but the wide range and outcomes of current case law and statutes. This book provides the foundation upon which to base policy and practice in this evolving area of adoption practice.
Foster Adoption
Title: Finding Families for African American Children: The Role of Race & Law in Adoption from Foster Care
Authors: Susan Smith, Ruth McRoy, Madelyn Freundlich, Joe Kroll
Published: 2008 May. New York NY: Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute
Document Type: Policy Brief (58 pages)
Availability: PDF Full Report |
Executive Summary |
Web Page |
Press Release
This Institute report, endorsed by a broad range of national child-welfare organizations, is the most thorough examination to date of the often-sensitive, controversial issues relating to transracial adoption and
calls for major changes to better serve the needs of children of color and to improve their prospects of moving to permanent, loving homes.
Title: The Future of Adoption for Children in Foster Care: Demographics in a Changing Socio-Political Environment
Author: Madelyn FreundlichPublished: 1998
Document Type: Policy Perspectives
Availability: PDF
This article examines the forces likely to have an impact on the adoption of children in foster care and considers the implications of policy and practice in a changing economic and sociopolitical climate.
Title: The Future of Adoption for Children in Foster Care
Author: Madelyn FreundlichPublished: Presented at Adoptive Families Today, Schaumburg, Illinois, November 8, 1998 and also presented at Families Adopting Children Everywhere, Baltimore, Maryland, October 3, 1998.
Document Type: Powerpoint Presentation
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Title: Expedited Termination of Parental Rights: Risks and Benefits
Author: Madelyn FreundlichPublished: Presented at the Dave Thomas Center for Adoption Law, Columbus, Ohio, February 9, 1999.
Document Type: Policy Perspectives
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Title: The Future of Adoption for Children in Foster Care
Author: Madelyn FreundlichPublished: Presented at the New York State Citizens Coalition for Children, Albany, NY, May 1998.
Document Type: Powerpoint Presentation
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Title: What's Working for Children: A Policy Study of Adoption Stability and Termination
Author: Evan B. Donaldson Adoption InstitutePublished: 2004 November. New York NY: Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute
Document Type: White Paper
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A 2004 research study that found the majority of adoptions from foster care have remained intact over time. The study also raises questions about the effectiveness of state data-collection systems on adoption terminations and offers recommendations to improve policies and practices.
Title: Listening to Parents: Overcoming Barriers to the Adoption of Children from Foster Care
Author: Jeff KatzPublished: 2005 March. New York NY: Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute
Document Type: White Paper
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A study conducted by Jeff Katz, a senior Fellow at the Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute, with additional contributions from colleagues at Harvard University and the Urban League, that identified one of the major barriers to foster care adoption is because potential adoptive parents decide not to deal with a system they perceive to be "too frustrating, bureaucratic, and just plain unfriendly."
Gay and Lesbian Adoption
Title: Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute Opposes Florida Law Prohibiting Gays and Lesbians from Adopting
Author: Evan B. Donaldson Adoption InstitutePublished: February 21, 2001 ACLU Amici Brief
Document Type: Press Release
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Title: Adoption by Lesbians and Gays: A National Survey of Adoption Agency Policies, Practices, and Attitudes
Author: David BrodzinskyPublished: October 29, 2003. New York, NY: Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute
Document Type: White Paper
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A major report released by the Adoption Institute in 2003, found that approximately 60 percent of adoption agencies accept applications from Lesbian and Gay couples, and that nearly 40 percent have placed children with such adoptive parents. On a broad level, the study also demonstrated how profoundly social attitudes and practices toward gays and lesbians are changing, while the willingness of agencies to accept them as parents means a growing number of children who need homes are moving into permanent families.
Title: Expanding Resources for Children:Is Adoption By Gays and Lesbians Part of the Answer for Boys and Girls Who Need Homes?
Author: Jeanne HowardPublished: 2006 March. New York: Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute
Document Type: Policy Perspective
Availability: Executive Summary | PDF Full Report | Web Page | Press release
This Policy Perspective brief provides a research-based context for the ongoing debate in the United States over the adoption of children by gays and lesbians. The report examined relevant issues, laws and practices relating to gay and lesbian adoption and parenting, and review of the available studies spanning the last several decades. The report found no child-centered reason to prevent gays and lesbians from becoming adoptive parents, and recommends that gay and lesbian parents be utilized more extensively to provide permanent, loving homes for children living in state care across the country. This policy brief is part of a larger, more extensive yearlong project on theses issues.
Infant Abandonment
Title: Unintended Consequences: 'Safe Haven' Laws Are Causing Problems, Not Solving Them
Author: Evan B. Donaldson Adoption InstitutePublished: 2003 March. New York, NY: Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute.
Document Type: White Paper
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A groundbreaking report released by the Adoption Institute in 2003 that examined the effectiveness and consequences of the so-called "safe haven" laws, and raised troubling and difficult questions about current laws. The report findings indicate that safe haven laws not only do not solve the problem of unsafe infant abandonment, but actually may encourage women to conceal pregnancies and then abandon infants who otherwise would have been placed for adoption through established legal procedures or been raised by relatives.
Title: Rethinking 'Safe Havens' for Legal Desertion of Babies
Author: Adam PertmanPublished: April 04, 2003 edition of The Christian Science Monitor
Document Type: Commentary
Availability: Web Page
Title: Experts to Examine Infant Abandonment
Author: Evan B. Donaldson Adoption InstitutePublished: March 11, 2003
Document Type: Press Release
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Following up on its controversial report on unsafe infant abandonment, the Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute hosted a roundtable discussion on the subject from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Friday, March 14, 2003 at its office in New York. At the event, a group of the nation's leading experts on adoption, abandonment and child welfare debated the issues.
Intercountry Adoption
Title: Adoption in the Absence of National Boundaries
Author: Joy Kim LieberthalPublished: Presented at the 25th Conference of the North American Council on Adoptable Children, 1999.
Document Type: Presentation Paper
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Title: The Gathering of the First Generation of Adult Korean Adoptees: Adoptees' Perceptions of International Adoption
Author: Madelyn Freundlich, Joy Kim LieberthalPublished: 2000 June. New York, NY: The Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute (52 pages)
Document Type: White Paper
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A report by former Executive Director Madelyn Freundlich and Joy Kim Lieberthal that contains a historical overview of the international adoption of Korean children; the results of the survey conducted by the Institute prior to historical Gathering conference of the first generation of Korean adoptees, and synopsis of the adoptee discussion groups.
Title: Reunion of the First Generation of Vietnamese Adoptees: Preliminary Survey Results
Author: Joy Kim LieberthalPublished: Presented by Joy Kim Lieberthal at the Reunion of First Generation of Vietnamese Adoptees April 28-30, 2000, Baltimore Maryland
Document Type: White Paper
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Title: Recommendations to the State Department & Acton Burnell re: Implementation of the Intercountry Adoption Act of 2000
Author: Cindy Freidmutter, Esq., Executive DirectorPublished: May 24, 2001
Document Type: Memorandum
Availability: PDF
Title: Recommendations for Implementing the Hague Convention & the Intercountry Adoption Act of 2000
Author: Cindy Freidmutter, Esq.Published: June 18, 2001
Document Type: Memorandum
Availability: PDF
Title: Additional Recommendations to the State Department & Acton Burnell re: Implementation of the Intercountry Adoption Act of 2000
Author: Cindy Freidmutter, Esq.Published: June 23, 2001
Document Type: Memorandum
Availability: PDF
Title: Recommendations to the State Department Regarding Acton Burnell's Final Draft of Hague Regulations Implementing the Intercountry Adoption Act
Author: Evan B. Donaldson Adoption InstitutePublished: March 19, 2002
Document Type: Memorandum
Availability: PDF
Title: Testimony On "International Adoptions: Problems and Solutions" Before the House Committee on International Relations
Author: Cindy FreidmutterPublished: May 22, 2002
Document Type: Testimony
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Title: Comments to the State Department on Proposed Regulations to Implement the Intercountry Adoption Act and Hague Convention Docket Number State/AR-01/96
Author: Evan B. Donaldson Adoption InstitutePublished: December 15, 2003
Document Type: Testimony
Availability: PDF
Title: Intercountry Adoption in Emergencies: The Tsunami Orphans
Author: Hollee McGinnisPublished: 2005 April. New York, NY: The Evan B. Donaldson Adoption
Document Type: Policy Perspectives
Availability: PDF Full Report
This policy brief examines the role of intercountry adoption in situations such as the one caused by the massive tsunami that struck Southeast Asia and the eastern coast of Africa on Dec. 26, 2004 – that is, during natural disasters, armed conflicts, and other complex human emergencies. By outlining some of the unique threats posed to children during emergencies, and examining existing international conventions and the legal framework for intercountry adoption, this brief articulates best practices that incorporate both immediate and long-term needs of children left without parental care – including protection, family reunification, community and family solutions, permanency, and respect for culture.
Interstate Adoption
Title: Reforming the Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children: A New Framework for Interstate Adoption
Author: Madelyn FreundlichPublished: No date
Document Type: Policy Perspectives
Availability: PDF Full Report
This article by former Executive Director Madelyn Freundlich examines the ICPC in relation to the role it has played and could play in promoting permanency for children through adoption. It also considers the purpose of the ICPC in relation to adoption, as well as the legal and practice issues that have arisen as attempts have been made to apply the ICPC.
Title: Safeguarding Interstate Adoptions: The Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children
Author: Susan Livingston SmithPublished: 2005 April; Revised 2005 June
Document Type: Policy Perspectives
Availability: PDF Full Report
The primary safeguard to regulate the adoption of boys and girls from one state to another is the Interstate Compact for the Placement of Children (ICPC). For a large number of foster children, finding permanent families requires moving in with relatives or other families outside their own states. For these children, accomplishing permanency is a more complicated process, requiring the cooperation of child welfare agencies and judicial systems in two jurisdictions. The ICPC was created four decades ago, and the pressure to expedite interjurisdictional placements has finally built to the point where serious efforts are now being undertaken to reform the process. This policy brief outlines the relevant issues in an effort to inform the discussion during current efforts to improve the ICPC system.
Media, Internet & Adoption
Title: The Media, the Internet and the Practice of Adoption: A Bibliography, 1995-1998
Author: Compiled by Deborah L. Martin. (8 pages)Published: No date
Document Type: Resource Paper
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For information on how to order The Media, The Internet and the Practice of Adoption: A Bibliography, 1995-1998.and other publications from the Adoption Institute click here.
Title: Adoption Institute Forums on Adoption and the Media "Forum on Adoption Issues"
Author: Evan B. Donaldson Adoption InstitutePublished: April 14, 1998 Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Document Type: Resource Paper
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Title: Adoption Institute Forums on Adoption and the Media "Striking a Balance: Media Reporting of Adoption Issues"
Author: Evan B. Donaldson Adoption InstitutePublished: 1999 March
Document Type: Resource Paper, Transcript
Availability: Web Page | Transcript of Rutger's Forum
Open Records
Title: State Voluntary Registries and Intermediary Programs
Author: Evan B. Donaldson Adoption InstitutePublished: January 24, 2008
Document Type: Resource Paper
Availability: PDF
Title: For the Records: Restoring a Right to Adult Adoptees
Author: Madelyn FreundlichPublished: 2007 November. New York NY: Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute
Document Type: White Paper (31 pages)
Availability: PDF Full Report | Executive Summary | Glossary of Terms | Web Page | Press Release
This study, published as part of National Adoption Awareness month, represents the most comprehensive examination to date of one of the most controversial, emotional issues in the modern adoption world: whether adopted people, once they become adults, should have access to their original birth certificates. This report suggests that all states change their laws so that the answer is "yes." This policy paper is the result of the broadest, most extensive examination to date of the various issues related to state laws governing adult adopted persons' access to their original birth certificates and/or adoption records; and recommendations in this paper are drawn from a review and analysis of past and current state laws; legislative history in states across the country; decades of experience on relevant issues; and the body of research relating to sealed and open records on the affected parties.
Title: Testimony before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Ways and Means
Subcommittee on Human Resources Concerning Adoption RegistriesAuthor: Madelyn Freundlich
Published: June 11, 1998
Document Type: Testimony
Availability: Web Page
Title: Confidentiality Becomes Political: The New Strategy in Opposition to Open Records
Author: Madelyn FreundlichPublished: Presented at the American Adoption Congress, Albany, New York, November 1, 1997.
Document Type: Powerpoint Presentation
Availability: Web Page
Title: Open Records Laws and Voluntary Registries
Author: Madelyn FreundlichPublished: 1997
Document Type: Policy Perspectives
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A review article of pending legislation and open record laws in the United States.
Title: Putative Father Registries
Author: Evan B. Donaldson Adoption InstitutePublished: 1997
Document Type: Resource Paper
Availability: PDF
A complete listing of states with putative father registries and links to statute text.
Title: A Summary of State Laws on Access to Identifying Information and State Registries
Author: Evan B. Donaldson Adoption InstitutePublished: No date
Document Type: Resource Paper
Availability: PDF
Connect to links of states with varying adoption-oriented laws regarding registries, search, notice, and consent procedures.
Title: Confidentiality Statutes
Author: Fred GreenmanPublished: 1997
Document Type: Resource Paper
Availability: Web Page
Information on various confidentiality statutes surrounding adoptive parents' control over confidentiality. It also describes various state statutes that for adoptions that are annulled, and confidentiality ends.
Open Adoption
Title: Openness in Adoption and Post-Adoption Contact Agreements: A Review of the Empirical Research and Current State Law
Author: Evan B. Donaldson Adoption InstitutePublished: 1999 December
Document Type: White Paper
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An introductory information booklet published by the Adoption Institute in 1999 that provides information about post-adoption contact agreements and inquiries into "open adoption".
Title: Open/Cooperative Adoption: The Impact of Current Laws on Negotiated Relinquishments
Author: Madelyn FreundlichPublished: Presented at the American Bar Association's Ninth National Conference on Children and the Law, Sheraton City Centre, Washington, DC, April 8-10, 1999.
Document Type: Policy Perspectives
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Title: Cooperative Adoptive Statutes
Author: Evan B. Donaldson Adoption InstitutePublished: No date
Document Type: Resource Paper
Availability: Web Page
Cooperative adoption statutes allow ongoing contact between adopted children and their birth parents after finalization of an adoption. Under these statutes, birth parents relinquish parental rights but maintain certain post-adoption contractual rights that may include the exchange of letters and photos, phone calls at specified times such as holidays or birthdays, and face-to-face contacts. Cooperative adoption may provide an opportunity for parents who may realize that they cannot raise their children but who view total relinquishment of their rights as an unacceptable abandonment.
Practice Issues
Title: The Many Faces of Adoption
Author: Madelyn FreundlichPublished: Presented at the Louisiana Adoption Advisory Board, December 15, 1998.
Document Type: Presentation Paper
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Prenatal Substance Abuse & Adoption
Title: A Summary of the Research and the Practice Recommendations, from Adoption and Prenatal Alcohol and Drug Exposure: The Research, Policy and Practice Challenges October 1997 Conference.
Author: Evan B. Donaldson Adoption InstitutePublished: 1998 June. New York, NY: Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute
Document Type: Conference Proceedings
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In October 1997 the Adoption Institute sponsored a groundbreaking symposium that explored the impact of prenatal drug and alcohol abuse on the development of children who are adopted and the supports needed by families who adopt them. A summary of the research and practice recommendations from the symposium, "Adoption and Prenatal Alcohol and Drug Exposure: The Research, Policy and Practice Challenges," was published in June 1998.
Title: Adoption and Prenatal Alcohol & Drug Exposure: Research, Policy and Practice
Author: Richard Barth, David Brodzinsky, Madelyn FreundlichPublished: 2000. Washington, D.C.: Child Welfare League of America Press
Document Type: Book
Availability: Purchase through Child Welfare League of America Press
Published in conjunction with the Child Welfare Leagues of America, this book provides important information on the impact of prenatal substance exposure on children's immediate health and well-being; the long-term implications for children's health and development; the role that a positive postnatal environment can play in remediating the effects of prenatal substance exposure; how prospective adoptive parents can be counseled regarding the effects of prenatal substance exposure; and the ongoing services and supports that are needed for adoptive families and their substance-exposed children to maximize positive outcomes. This book was developed with the support of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. It is designed to serve as a key resource for practitioners, policymakers, researchers, and others with an interest in, and a commitment to, adoption for substance-exposed children.
Research Resources
Title: The Annotated Guide to Adoption Research, 1986-1997
Author: Deborah L. MartinPublished: 1998 March. Washington, D.C.: Child Welfare League of America Press
Document Type: Book
Availability: Out of print. Welfare League of America Press (Stock #7084 $24.95)
An Annotated Guide to Adoption Research, 1986-1997 was published by the Child Welfare League of America Press and the Adoption Institute. Compiled by Institute staff, this landmark tool synthesized a decade (1986 and 1997) of qualitative and quantitative research encompassing clinical and nonclinical samples, case studies, longitudinal studies, epidemiological studies, grounded theory, experimental research, and single-subject research in one volume.
Title: Research Bibliography and Abstracts Database
Author: Evan B. Donaldson Adoption InstitutePublished: No date
Document Type: Database
Availability: Web Page
To amass this database, a comprehensive literature search for articles, master's theses, Ph.D. dissertations, conference proceedings, books, book chapters, reports and unpublished manuscripts was conducted. The abstracts in this database have been compiled and published in "An Annotated Guide to Adoption Research: 1986 - 1997."
Title: Adoption Access
Author: Debbie L. MartinPublished: 1998-2001. New York, NY: Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute
Document Type: Resource Papers
Availability: Web Page | Volume 1 Number 1 | Volume 1 Number 2 | Volume 1 Number 4 | Volume 2 Number 2 | Volume 2 Number 3
Title: Adoption & Foster Care: Select Law Review Articles 1995-1998
Author: Evan B. Donaldson Adoption InstitutePublished: No date
Document Type: Resource Paper
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Wrongful Adoption
Title: Wrongful Adoption Cased
Author: Madelyn Freundlich, Lisa PetersonPublished: Presented at the Association of Administrators of the interstate Compact on Adoption and Medical Assistance Conference, Adoption: Pathways and Partnerships, Charleston, South Carolina, September 23, 1997.
Document Type: Powerpoint Presentation
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Title: Wrongful Adoption: Law, Policy and Practice
Author: Madelyn Freundlich, Lisa PetersonPublished: 1998. Washington, DC: Child Welfare League of America Press.
Document Type: Book
Availability: Purchase through Child Welfare League of America Press
The past decade has seen an increase in cases where adoptive parents fail to receive accurate or complete information about a child's physical, emotional, or development problem or about a child's birth family and history. In such cases, adoptive parents, confronted with extremely expensive medical care or mental health care, have sought assistance through the courts. Wrongful Adoption examines the issue in four parts: the history of adoption practice in relation to disclosure of children's health and other background information, cases that have shaped the "law" of wrongful adoption, key policy and practice issues, and recommendations for quality practice.
Title: Protecting Parents, Children and Agencies by Avoiding Liability in Wrongful Adoption Cases
Author: Madelyn Freundlich, Lisa PetersonPublished: Presented at Association of Administrators of the Interstate Compact on Adoption and Medical Assistance, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, November 4-6, 1998.
Document Type: Powerpoint Presentation
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Title: Protecting Parents, Children and Agencies by Avoiding Liability in Wrongful Adoption Cases
Author: Madelyn Freundlich, Lisa PetersonPublished: Presented at the Child Welfare League of Americas, San Antonio, Texas, December 8, 1998.
Document Type: Powerpoint Presentation
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Title: Wrongful Adoption: Litigation/Practice Issues
Author: Madelyn Freundlich, Lisa PetersonPublished: Presented at the American Bar Association's Ninth National Conference on Children and the Law, Sheraton City Centre, Washington, DC, April 8-10, 1999.
Document Type: Presentation Paper
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This is an article was written as a synopsis based on the book by the Adoption Institute and published through the Child Welfare League of America, Wrongful Adoption: Law, Policy and Practice.
