Transcultural Adoptive Families

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The following is a list of useful links that we have found helpful for internationally and transculturally adoptive families.

Adoptive Families Magazine
An award winning national magazine, which is the leading adoption information source for families before, during, and after adoption.

www.ethnicgrocer.com
Check out this site for international recipes from around the world, then order your ingredients on-line.

www.tapestrybooks.com
Your source for books for adoptive families. Tapestry Books offers books for adults and books for children. Topics include understanding adoption, international adoption, open adoption, toddler adoption, foster care, celebrating differences, and more. This site also offers children's books about various countries and parts of the world.

www.adopting.com/mailing.html
Includes a number of adoption related e-mail lists, which provide a wonderful opportunity for support and for the exchange of information. They range from general adoption lists to lists for discussion of topics like cross-cultural adoption, adoption from specific countires, open adoption, single parent adoption, special needs adoption, and more. In addition, there are a variety of bulletin boards and newsgroups available, as well as adoption chat forums.

www.celebratethechild.com
Here you can purchase cultural items, such as dolls, music, videos and DVDs, jewelry, and more from the country of your child's birth. Products are available from Asia, Latin America, and Europe.

www.terraexperience.com
Shop here for doll clothes, folk art, toys, ethnic textiles, miniatures, gifts, and other fun and educational products from the markets of the world. Terra Experience's specialty is ehtnic doll clothing, hand-woven in South and Central America to fit American Girl Dolls and other 18" dolls.

suite101.com/welcome.cfm/multicultural_family
This site includes articles on raising a multicultural family, as well as links to other sites, which are of interest to transracially adoptive families.

nac.adopt.org
This service brings waiting US waiting children online through photographs and descriptions. More than 120,000 children in the United States wait for forever families. They may be school-aged or older or may have brothers and sisters that need homes together. Some may have special needs. More than 60% of the waiting children in the United States are minorities.

www.asiaforkids.com
Asia for Kids' mission is to be the best global resource for teaching Asian languages and cultures. Their collection includes books, langauge textbooks, videos, audio casettes, software, CD-Roms, dolls, games, posters, crafts, t-shirts and resource materials for parents and teachers. While the site's focus is on Asian countries and cultures, its search engine also allows one to search for global resources. One section deals specifically with adoption.

www.123greetings.com
This site allows you to send free online adoption-related greeting cards and has links to other adoption-related web pages.

www.happymangoimports.com
Shop for handicrafts and textiles from Guatemala.

americanradioworks.publicradio.org
Fifty years of international adoption.

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