Adoption Resources : Facts and Statistics : Domestic Adoption

Domestic Adoption

• The most current, comprehensive, and reliable data on domestic infant adoption is available in NCFA's Adoption Factbook IV, published in 2007.
  
  
• How state laws address frequently asked adoption questions [web site]
  
  
• A national project to train counselors on counseling women with unplanned pregnancies about the option of adoption [web site]
  
  
• Census Bureau special report: 2000: Adopted children and Stepchildren (October 2003) [web site]
  
  
• National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) Advance Data: Adoption, Adoption Seeking, and Relinquishment for Adoption in the United States (May 11, 1999)
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• Administration for Children and Families Adoption Questions and Answers Support.
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• National Vital Statistics Reports (October 18, 2000): Nonmarital Childbearing in the United States, 1940-99.
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• National Vital Statistics Report, Vol. 50, No. 5 (February 12, 2002), Number and percent of births to unmarried women by race and Hispanic origin of mother.
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