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Rob, Russell and Ben are legally approved to adopt and ready to provide a good home for a baby boy or baby girl.

Rob, Russell and Ben are eager to adopt a baby boy or girl!

Our names are Rob, Russell and Ben. As a family created through adoption, we have tremendous respect and admiration for you as you consider making an adoption plan for your child, and we are honored that you are considering our profile. We realize that the days that lie ahead may be difficult for you, but we hope that any relationship that we may build with you will share the same foundation of trust, respect, and compassion upon which we have built our own relationship.

Click here to read more about Rob, Russell and Ben and to see lots of great pictures of them!

"Adoption comes from the heart, but the adoption process comes from the Law. You should follow your heart, but be sure you also follow the law." — Irina O'Rear

Adoption Books, Articles and Websites

 

We have compiled some excellent resources for prospective adoptive parents. While this list is not exhaustive, it provides an excellent beginning to understanding adoption. Many of the books may be obtained on Tapestry Books.

 

BOOKS

 

  1. Adoption & the Jewish Family: Contemporary Perspectives (by Shelley Rosenberg): Focuses on the primary issues that confront these families, issues that until now had never been addressed in a Jewish context. To order call 215-564-5925.
  2. The Adoption Resource Book (By Lois Gilman): Covers the adoption procedure from learning about adoption through preparing for your child, and raising an adopted child.
  3. The Essential Adoption Handbook (by Colleen Alexander-Roberts): This book is a guide to effectively and aggressively organizing your search for a child. It includes sample agency application and home study forms.
  4. The Family of Adoption (by Joyce Maguire Pavao): Puts a complicated subject into a readable language and easy to understand terms.
  5. In Their Own Voices: Transracial Adoptees Tell Their Stories (by Rita J. Simon & Rhonda M. Roorda): Adoptees speak on issues such as identity and race. If you are interested in adopting African American or biracial children or have been adopted transracially, this is a must read. Includes FIA staff member Jessica's personal adoption story.
  6. The Long Awaited Stork: A Guide to Parenting After Infertility (by Ellen Sarasohn Glazer): Even after they become parents, many people still feel the impact of being infertile. This book deals with the effects of parents' infertility as their children grow.
  7. Loving Across the Color Line: A White Adoptive Mother Learns About Race (by Sharon E. Rush):
    A must read for any white person - especially those seriously considering adopting across the color line.
  8. Open Adoption Experience (by Lois Ruskai Melma and Sharon Kaplan Roszia): Adoption experts guide you through all stages of the open adoption experience.
  9. Raising Adopted Children: A Manual for Adoptive Parents (by Lois Ruskai Melina): A parent's guide to rearing children in an adoptive family. It examines the child's physical, emotional and psychological development at every age.
  10. When Friends Ask About Adoption (by Linda Bothun): Friends and family often have questions about the adoption process, but they may be embarrassed or afraid to ask them. This is a question and answer guide for them.

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MAGAZINES

 

  1. Adoptive Families: A national adoption magazine for families before, during and after adoption.
  2. Adoption TODAY: A magazine that addresses numerous issues surrounding adoption.

 

Gay and Lesbian Adoption / Websites

 

  1. Adoptive Family Resources:
    www.adoptivefamilyresources.com
    Adoption and parenting help and information.
  2. Daddy and Pappa:
    www.daddyandpapa.com
    Johnny Symon's heartwarming and unusually funny new documentary that tells the stories of four families with gay dads. (An Emmy nominated documentary).
  3. Pact's Book Source:
    www.pactadopt.org/store
    The Book Source is described as "A reference guide to books on adoption and race for adults nd children." It really is an unparallel resource that is a must see and must own for everyone.

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BOOKS FOR CHILDREN

 

  1. Adoption is for Always (by Linda Girard): This well written book involves a young girl whose parents help her to accept her feelings and includes factual information about the adoption process.
  2. Beginnings: How Families Came To Be (by Virginia Kroll): Parents and children discuss how their families were formed.
  3. The Day We Met You (by Phoebe Koehler): A read aloud children's book where adoptive parents describe the day they brought their child home.
  4. How I Was Adopted (by Joanna Cole): This book provides factual information about adoption within the context of a story.
  5. The Mulberry Bird (by Anne Brodzinsky): A fictional story about a young mother bird who finds a good home for her baby bird.
  6. Tell Me Again About the Night I Was Born (by Jamie Lee Curtis): A read aloud book that offers parents the opportunity to use the adoption story in the book to explain their child's adoption story to him/her.

 

OTHER

 

  1. Surving the Holidays: Surviving Pre-Adoption During the Holiday Season
    Click to download this article as a pdf file

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