This booklet covers expenses common to most adoptions, expenses unique to the various types of adoption, financial assistance for adoption and post-adoption expenses, and tax breaks available to adoptive parents.

This guide explains three different ways to help an adopted child born abroad become a lawful permanent resident (LPR) or a U.S. citizen. Each process is distinct and has different eligibility requirements.

Adoptive parenthood, like other types of parenthood, can bring tremendous joy—and a  sizable amount of stress. This fact sheet explores some of the emotional ups and downs that adoptive parents may experience as they approach the decision to adopt, during the adoptive process, and most importantly, after the adoption.

This fact sheet discusses some of the emotional issues that parents may face after making the decision to place an infant for adoption, in surrendering the child, and in handling the feelings that often persist afterwards. It may be a helpful resource for birth parents as well as family members, friends, and others who want… [read more]

Adoption creates a split between a person’s biology and biography, and openness is an essential way to help adoptees heal this split.1 This article covers what openness means in the context of adoption and how adoptive parents can, through openness, help adoptees integrate and heal. There are three shifts adoptive parents can make—supported by adoption… [read more]

The number of youth who age out of foster care has risen steadily over the past decade, even in the wake of increased efforts to achieve permanence for all children in foster care. For far too many youth, aging out of care results in homelessness, work instability, and a lack of stable, loving relationships with… [read more]

Every year, more and more children in foster care find permanent homes with relatives when they cannot return to live with their parents. Most children will find permanent homes through relative adoption, which continued to increase throughout the decade. In 2000, 21 percent of the children adopted from foster care were adopted by relatives. By… [read more]