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Sites dealing with families (and individuals) who are looking to adopt a child.

This category contains sites dealing with people who are looking to adopt.

Listing of Families

This category is for listings of families hoping to adopt. Please submit the site''s main URL, a brief description of the site.

If the site is associated with an adoption agency list the affiliation and link directly to the web page including the family listings. Agencies that only operate within one state or individual sites should be placed in the regional category.

Regional

This category includes individual sites of families hoping to adopt, or agency listings of families hoping to adopt. US Agencies should choose the state where the agency is located. Families should choose the state where they currently reside.

In the description include anything unique and relevant about your family that will help expectant mothers narrow down their search. For example: family structure, type of child desired (age, race, special needs, gender), type of adoption (open/semi-open/closed), existing children, experience with adoption (birthmother, adoptee, adoptive parents)

Avoid using the term "Birth Mother" when you mean expectant parents considering making an adoption plan. A woman is not a birthmother until she relinquishes her parental rights.

When you are no longer seeking to adopt please either remove your web page or put a message on your webpage stating you are no longer seeking to adopt.

Lists of Families

This category contains sites that have lists of many families or individuals who are hoping to adopt a baby or child.

This category is for sites that contain many families or individuals who are hoping to adopt a baby or child.

Agency listings from agencies that operate in only one state or sites about one family or individual should be submitted to Home: Family: Adoption: Wish to Adopt : Regional category under the appropriate country and state.

When submitting, please be sure to provide the site''s main URL, a brief description of the site, and information about the owner/operator of the site. For example, is the site operated by an adoption agency or attorney?

Regional

Regional listing of individual sites of families hoping to adopt.

Please choose the appropriate country where the agency or individual family resides. Currently only the United States region is broken out into states.

Please submit agency listings of adoptive families under the state where the agency is located. Use the URL that takes the user directly to the listing of adoptive families.

Please submit family adoption websites under the state where the family or individual resides.

Submissions under the general "United States" category will not be accepted. If your site contains families from multiple states or multiple countries it should be listed under Home: Family : Adoption : Wish to Adopt : Lists of Families