Thinking About Adoption?
Currently, adoption from China takes many years from the starting of paperwork until traveling to China.
To adopt from China, you will have to travel to the country and stay for about two and half weeks. You will have to go through an adoption agency to adopt from China.
Adoption Agencies
Below are a few of the agencies our members have used.
- www.childrenshope.com
- www.chinesechildren.org
- www.bethany.org
- www.holtintl.org/china/index.shtml
- www.awaa.org
Returning Home
Once home you will need to obtain a birth certificate (TN certificate of Foreign Birth) for your child and complete a re-adoption. You can choose to do this yourself, but may it be easier to pay an attorney. The forms to do the readoption procedure yourself are available on the yahoo group in the files section. You no longer need a lawyer in TN to complete teh readoption process
Should you choose to use an attorney here is a link to an attorney in Nashville that is well experienced with this process.
Lisa L. Collins, Esq www.tnadoption.com
Chinese Translation Services for Adoptive Parents
Many parents of adopted Chinese children have used ssoTranslations to their complete satisfaction. Our translators, whose mother tongue is Chinese, have been living and working in Canada for decades. They write native English and Chinese, and have many years of experience translating documents, forms, certificates, and letters between English and Chinese for adoptive parents at very reasonable rates. Website: http://ssotranslations.tripod.com Email: ssotranslations@gmail.com
More Information
- For more information, please visit the national website of FCC at www.fwcc.org
- Adopting the International Child with Special Needs : A Practical Guide www.adopting.org/sn.html
- Our Chinese Daughters Foundation, alot of information here on Oprhans in China www.ocdf.org
- News from China www.chinatoday.com
- Currency Converter www.xe.net/ucc/
- China Center of Adoptive Affairs www.china-ccaa.org/frames/index_unlogin_en.jsp
- Information and advise from a physician specializing in International adoption www.orphandoctor.com
Book List
Adult Books about Chinese Adoption, Transracial Adoption, or General Adoption
- Lost Daughters of China by Karin Evans
- Are Those Kids Yours? By Cheri Register
- A Passage to the Heart by Amy Klatzin
- Adopting in China: A Practical Guide/An Emotional Journey by Kathleen Wheeler and Doug Werner
- Raising Adopted Children by Lois Ruskai Melina
- A Love Like No Other by Pamela Kruger and Jill Smolowe
- Keys to Parenting an Adopted Child by Kathy Lancaster
- Wanting a Daughter, Needing a Son by Kay Ann Johnson
- Growing Girls: the Mother of All Adventures by Jeanne Marie Laskas
- Fifty Acres and a Poodle by Jeanne Marie Laskas
- Beyond Good Intentions by Cheri Register
- 20 Things Adopted Kids want their Adoptive Parents to Know by Sherrie Eldridge
- WuHu Diary: On Taking My Adopted Child Back to China by Emily Prager
- Digging to America by Anne Tyler (fictional account of Chinese adoption, but still a good read)
Adult Books about China or Chinese-Americans
- The Good Women of China by Xin Ran (very highly recommended – definite must read)
- Anything by Amy Tan
- The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
- Native Speaker by Chang Rae Lee
- Asian American Dreams: the Emergency of an American People by Helen Zia
- Falling Leaves by Helen Zia
- The Chinese in America by Iris Chang
- Colors of the Mountain by Da Chen
- Wild Swans by Jung Chang
- China Wakes by Kristof and Wudunn
Kid’s Books
- Ruby’s Wish by Shirin Yin Bridges
- Shaoey and Dot by Steven Curtis Chapman
- Tell Me Again about the Night I was Born by Jamie Lee Curtis
- Why Was I Adopted? By Carol Livingston
- Every Year on Your Birthday by Rose Lewis
- I Love You Like Crazy Cakes by Rose Lewis
- A Mother for Choco by keiko Kasza (I love this one and buy lots of copies to give to Erin’s class – kids really grasp the concept of why she looks different from her family with this one)
- When You Were Born in China by Sara Dorow
- Mei Mei Little Sister by Richard Bowen
- Kids Like Me in China by Ying Ying Fry
- You’re Not my Real Mother by Molly Friedrich
- Mommy Far, Mommy Near by Carol Peacock
- Emma’s Yucky Brother by Jean Little (about foster care adoption but delves into issues that an older bio sibling will have with a younger, adopted sibling)
- Sesame Street: We’re Different,We’re the Same by Bobbi Kates (this is my most favorite kids book to talk about diversity to a class)
(updated 9/27/09)