Thinking About Adoption?
Currently, adoption from China takes many months 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. Expenses will
be between $25,000 to $30,000. 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.holtintl.org/china/index.shtml
Returning Home
Once home you will need to obtain a birth certificate for your child and complete a re-adoption. You can choose to
do this yourself, but may be easier to pay an attorney. The small fee is usually worth having it done without worrying.
Below 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 Stree: We’re Different,We’re the Same by Bobbi Kates (this is my most favorite kids book to talk about diversity to a class)
(October 8, 2007)