Resources:

The Reunion Registry - the starting place for adoptees searching for birth parents

Adoption Search and Reunion

The Adoption Webring - we are all connected here

Bastard Nation - Dignity and equal rights for adoptees


Articles:

Julie was the first to help me see I was not alone with this article - http://www.adoptioncrossroads.org/SmilingAdoptees.html

The Primal Wound - Legacy of the Adopted Child

http://www.geckotech.com/oara/l3_service_intimacy.html - a great article about Relinquishment and Intimacy for adoptees.

http://library.adoption.com/information/Adult-Adoptees/12/1.html - Adopt Internationals pages for adoptees. Great insights.

http://naic.acf.hhs.gov/pubs/f_issues.cfm - Factsheet on the impact of adoption on adoptees

Want to see my laundry list of issues? Here are the lifelong issues in adoption: http://library.adoption.com/Parenting-and-Families/Lifelong-Issues-in-Adoption/article/256/1.html

Poetry by adoptees: http://www.adoptionpoetry.com/poems/adoptees-2.html

http://www1.dshs.wa.gov/ca/adopt/how_issues.asp - things to consider

http://www.adoptioncrossroads.org/SecretCrime.html - America;s Secret Crime

The mother's side of the story is just as horrid as my own apparently - http://www.adoptioncrossroads.org/NotByChoice.html