Most Web sites are in states that allow advertising by birth parents and adoption professionals, and the greatest concentration of online services is in California, where adoption facilitators are legal.

In this section find resources that assist adoption professionals in identifying, providing, and evaluating quality postplacement services.

While most of the focus of failed adoptions has traditionally been on the behavior and health of the child, adoption professionals today underscore that parents and agencies bear responsibility, too.

This year's initiative focuses on building capacity of adoption professionals to recruit and retain parents for the 107,000 children and youth waiting for permanent families in the U.S. foster care system.

Since the book series was launched, Ms. Capone has been doing presentations at schools on the Island as well as giving workshops to educators and adoption professionals.

Includes information for adoption professionals, adopted adults, expectant parents considering adoption, birth parents and relatives, and prospective and adoptive parents on a broad range of adoption topics.

Postplacement adoption casework practice Provides resources that assist adoption professionals in identifying, providing, and evaluating quality postplacement services.

The Smoots said that the "Richard" they talked to never gave his last name, but several adoption professionals, who asked not to be named, said he has referred birth parents to Beacon House.

Post-adoption depression is recognized among adoption professionals, but there is no research on the syndrome.