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Welcome to AdoptionInformation.com. The purpose of this site is to allow the free exchange of ideas regarding adoption and families. For this reason the site has been implemented as a wiki; users can freely add and edit content throughout this site until the community comes to a consensus on the meaning of a given topic. This site is primarily about the topics of Adoption, Fostering, Parenting, Pregnancy, etc. If you are in search of the previous Adoption Information content it has been moved to Adopting.org. For more information see the help and copyright sections.
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Over the past 50 years, adoption has changed more than it did over the thousands of years between the first recorded accounts of adoptions in ancient times and the mid-20th century. These changes have followed societal trends and reflect the greater openness in our discussions about personal matters and our deeper understanding of human strengths and weaknesses that have occurred in almost every segment of our lives.
We have come to understand the feelings of grief and loss a birth mother feels after placement; the question of parental rights has been brought to the fore in legal proceedings protecting the rights of a birth father; we have come to have a greater appreciation of the difficulties an adoptive parent encounters when answering intrusive and personal questions, especially where a transracial adoption is concerned; in the face of increasing scientific research on the importance of genetic historie...