Infertility and Reproductive Issues

The American Fertility Association
A 20-year-old, New York City-based support and consumer advocacy group which deals not just with infertility, but with the proactive protection of fertility!

The International Council on Infertility Information Dissemination (INCIID)
A 10-year-old support and advocacy organization with an enormous array of Internet-based services, in particular dozens of special focus bulletin boards and chat rooms, some moderated by medical, psychological, legal, and educational experts and some not. Several Perspectives Press authors are moderators or special event speakers for INCIID.

Organization of Parents Through Surrogacy (OPTS)
A national, nonprofit, all-volunteer organization whose purpose is mutual support, networking and dissemination of information regarding surrogate parenting. OPTS is a great resource for a referral to an ethical program and it takes an active part in lobb

RESOLVE: The National Infertility Association
More than 25 years old, this national not-for-profit network of over 50 local chapters offers information, support, and advocacy services to those dealing with fertility impairment and the professionals who work with them. In addition to other information

American Society for Reproductive Medicine
A not-for-profit professional organization whose members include physicians, nurses, mental health professionals and others devoted to advancing knowledge and expertise in reproductive medicine and biology. Established in 1944, the Society has since achie

Fertile Thoughts
A huge and comprehensive Web site designed to help infertile couples and couples seeking adoption. It features articles, fact sheets, bulletin boards, links, etc. related to infertility, family planning, surrogacy, adoption, and parenting.

Adoption

North American Council on Adoptable Children
THE umbrella organization for advocacy groups and agencies whose mission is to find permanet homes for North America's waiting children.

Joint Council on International Children's Services
An affiliation of licensed, not-for-profit child welfare agencies that service children through intercountry adoption and relief efforts. JCICS advocates for homeless children throughout the world, provides a forum for sharing information enabling childre

Adoption Learning Partners
Highly valuable, timely e-learning resources for foster and adoptive parents, adopted individuals, birth parents and the families that love them. The first course, Conspicuous Families: Race, Culture and Adoption, is available free of charge for a limited

Comeunity's directory of adoption email lists
A particularly thorough compilation of lists that discuss adoption.

International Adoption Alliance
A national nonprofit adoption support organization serving domestic and international adoptees and their families.

Adoption.com
An extremely comprehensive, umbrella site on all aspects of adoption. It's actually a collection of several sites, also including \<a>adopting.org,\ adoption.org,

Pact, An Adoption Alliance
The be-all and end-all in education for families adopting children of color. Beth Hall and Gail Steinberg (Pact's founding "mothers") and their staff offer adoption services, educational forums, the quarterly magazine Pact Press, a comprehensive multicult

How to Make Adoption an Affordable Option
An online booklet from the <b>National Endowment for Financial Education</b> covering intercountry and domestic, agency and independent, infant and special needs adoptions.

Parent Network for the Post Institutionalized Child
A support group which focuses on issues specific to the adoption of children who have spent part of their early life in an orphanage setting.

Eastern European Adoption Coalition, Inc.
A nonprofit educational organization legally incorporated to provide and promote the education and training of prospective adopting parents, parents who have adopted, and those engaged in providing services to such parents for the purpose of developing an

Adoption Research in International Adoption (ARIA)
Adoptive parent and adoption researcher Teena McGuinness introduces you to her own research project as well as providing information about and links to many other important sources for information, referral, diagnosis and support related to a variety of m

Tapestry Books
OK, so if I send you away to this site I may lose a direct sale (Tapestry carries all of PP's titles)... but how can I not tell you about Tapestry Books? This is the largest infertility and adoption-centered booksource out there! You can find just about a

Korean Quarterly
A truly amazing resource designed to be "local" to Minneapolis-St Paul, but oh so much more... This newspaper (not newsletter) new in 1997 newspaper is published four times a year. KQ is a non-profit organization which exists to promoteKorean American peo

Korean Focus
A support organization for families with children from Korea, providing information and programs on Korean culture and the adoption experience. Korean Focus is 501(c)3 non-profit, parent-directed, and agency-independent.

Korean American Adoptee Adoptive Family Network (KAAN)
A network that links individuals and organizations, including adoptees, adoptive parents and Korean Americans, across the United States and Canada. KAAN's Community: One hundred thousand Korean children have been adopted into the United States. With their

Families with Children from China
A nondenominational organization of families who have adopted children from China. The purpose of FCC is provide a network of support for families who've adopted in China and to provide information to prospective parents. The purpose of the FCC site is to

Adopting.com
Julie Valentine's comprehensive website lists agencies, websites, support groups, products and more-- a virtual what's what of connections to the adoption universe.