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Tips For Adoptive Families In Baltimore

Adoption is a tricky subject. Whether you're considering placing your baby for adoption, adopting a baby or trying to reunite with birth parents, odds are, you need some help. Here are some websites and resources to help you.

Maryland Adoption Directory

http://www.childwelfare.com/Maryland_Adoption_listings.htm

Here are a bunch of websites that answer most questions you might have. There are links to adoption agencies, foster care services, support groups, birth reunion websites and adoption lawyers.

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This website has links to couples looking for children to adopt and also children who need adoption. (Credit: maryland.adoption.com)

Md. Adoption Information

http://maryland.adoption.com

This website has links to couples looking for children to adopt and also children who need adoption. If you are considering placing a baby for adoption or want to raise a child, please consider checking out these links.

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n. Adoptions Together has been in business for 20 years, making them a valuable resource. (Credit: adoptionstogether.org)

Adoptions Together

http://www.adoptionstogether.org

This provides information to couples who wish to adopt a child, as well as to birth mothers who are considering placing a baby for adoption. Adoptions Together has been in business for 20 years, making them a valuable resource.

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If you have been adopted or if you placed a baby for adoption, a search registry can help you be reunited. (Credit: www.hrg.state.md.us)

Adoption Registry

http://www.dhr.state.md.us/adoptvol/index.htm

If you have been adopted or if you placed a baby for adoption, a search registry can help you be reunited. Sign up, and if there's someone who matches your specifics, you'll be notified.

Concerned United Birthparents

http://www.cubirthparents.org

If you placed a baby for adoption, chances are it was a hard decision for you. This is a support group that will help you. They aren't organized to help you find the adopted child, but are there more to listen when you need to talk.

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