DESCRIPTION: Adoptive Families, the award-winning national adoption magazine, is the leading adoption information source for families before, during, and after adoption. Everything you need to know about adoption, whether you want to adopt or you're a veteran adoptive parent.
Are you looking for an adoption agency? Maybe an adoption attorney? Have you decided to adopt but aren't sure whether you can afford it? Have you already adopted and are looking for resources for your family, your child or your child's friends and teachers? The Adoptive Families website, based on the national adoption magazine that's published twice a year, is here to help.
The website is filled with resources for those considering adoption or those that have already adopted. A few of the resources include: Adoption Calendar of Events, Adoption Bookstore, Listing of Adoption Agencies (including adoption countries and adoption programs), Listing of Adoption Attorney, Book and Movie Reviews as well as articles relating to post adoption depression, siblings and adoption and dealing with reluctant relatives.
There were a few firsts for me on this site, including Adoption Music, a listing of Top Companies for Adoptive Families, and Suggestions for New Family Rituals. My favorite area of the site was the link to help the reader decide on a name for the adoptive child. "For a child who joins his family with his own history, his own culture—his own name—the story’s rarely rooted in the pages of a baby names book. AF readers share how they made the naming decision." Obviously a very important decision for an adoptive family and not a decision I'd ever given a second thought to. It's nice the staff at Adoptive Families appear to have all points covered.
Give the site a closer look and let us know what you think.
SAN FRANCISCO — A giant rainbow-colored flag in the gay-friendly Castro neighborhood of San Francisco was flying at half-staff on Wednesday as social and religious conservatives celebrated the passage of measures that ban same-sex marriage in California, Florida and Arizona.
Paul Sakuma/Associated Press
Jennifer Briz, left, and Kristina Haas leave City Hall in San Francisco on Wednesday after a clerk refused to marry them.
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In California, where same-sex marriage had been performed since June, the ban had more than 52 percent of the vote, according to figures by the secretary of state, and was projected to win by several Californian news media outlets. Opponents of same-sex marriage won by even bigger margins in Arizona and Florida. Just two years ago, Arizona rejected a similar ban.
Your house sure does—and it's bad for your health.
By the Editors of Women's Health
We humans breathe in 3,000 gallons of air daily—65 percent of it indoors. Not exactly great news. Why? Because indoor air pollution can be two to five times as high as levels in the great outdoors, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Blame building materials, fuel-burning appliances, and stuff you use to clean your castle: They all emit pollutants that, over time, can contribute to health problems like asthma, headaches, fatigue, heart disease, and even cancer, says Helen Suh MacIntosh, Sc.D., of the Harvard School of Public Health. Snuff out these bad guys and breathe easier:
Carbon monoxide, nitrogen dioxide, and tiny, sootlike floaters called particulate matter can seep out from improperly maintained stoves, fireplaces, and chimneys. Low-level exposure to carbon monoxide leads to headaches and nausea; high levels are deadly. Nitrogen dioxide can cause eye, nose, and throat irritation. Particulate matter can damage lung tissue.
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