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Adoption Stress Therapy - Virtual meeting place for adoptees looking to talk to others to help relieve the everyday stress.
Meta Description: [ Adoption Stress Therapy At Its Best,is a room for people who have been adopted who can come in and talk about adoption stress problems or just every day stress that are bothering them at that time. So come in and share your information on the do's and don'ts in the search for your natural birth... ]
Adoption Support - Discussion board for those interested or involved in domestic and international adoption.
Adoption-Separation Trauma Support Group - Co-moderated by a natural mother, natural grandmother, and an adoptee.
Arizona Adoptees - Features an online mailing support group and information about the Confidential Intermediary Program.
Birthparent Forum - Non-profit support group for birthparents of domestic adoptions.
Meta Description: [ Non-profit organization that provides educational resources, referrals, and support to birthparents of domestic adoptions. Forums allow birthmothers and birthfathers to connect with others who understand. Local support groups are available. ]
Calhoun County Adoption - Online group providing support for anyone that is a party to an adoption in Calhoun County, Michigan. Message board, chat, list of links and polls are included.
Meta Description: [ CalhounCountyAdoption: CalhounCountyAdoption ]
Displaced Ducklings - Online community for people who have been touched by adoption. Includes message board and links.
First Mothers Reunited - Email support group for birthmothers who relinquished a child during the closed adoption era (1945-1980). Membership details, suggested reading list and links.
Meta Description: [ firstmothers,mothers,birthmother-support-birthmothers support group. providing adoption reunion help. ]
Fostering - Adopting Older Children- Saving the World a Child at a Ti - A community of foster and adoptive parents and prospective parents of older children, sibling groups, teenagers, and other special needs children.
Meta Description: [ Saving the World a Child at a Time. A community of foster and adoptive parents and prospective parents of older children, sibling groups, teenagers, and other special needs children. Primary focus is older child adoption and related issues. ]
In Family Adoptions - A community for families that have adopted grandchilden or other family members. Includes a message board.
Meta Description: [ In Family Adoptions is a group of parents that are raising their grandchildren or other family members.
Have a problem?..we will try to help.
Just want to vent...we are here
Want a laugh...you can find one here..
Want to cry..you have our shoulders
Want understanding..most of us have been t... ]
List of Adoption Lists - Validated listing of adoption support listservs and email lists.
Meta Description: [ Annotated list of adoption listservs and adoption email lists by topic. ]
Mending Our Broken Wings - Support and reunion group that focuses on healing. Includes a chatroom and links. [Yahoo registration required.]
Meta Description: [ MendingOurBrokenWings: Somewhere Out There is Hope ]
Single Adoptive Parents Mailing List - A mailing list for single adoptive parents providing discussions of parenting issues and personal experiences specific to single parent adopting.
Meta Description: [ A mailing list for single adoptive parents. ]
Yahoo! Groups: Tennessee Adoptions - Discussion boards and chat for Tennessee residents who want to adopt or have adopted. [Registration required.]
Meta Description: [ Tennessee_adoptions: Tennessee Adoptions ]
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