Family Life

Adoption

• About Adoption

  This site includes information on international adoption, adoption costs, legal resources, special needs, chat rooms, post-adoption, and adoption fraud.

   

• National Adoption Information Clearinghouse (NAIC)

  Produced by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Information for prospective adoptive parents, adoption law, lists of adoption agencies. Help for adoptees seeking birthparents. Nice links.

   

Care Giving

• Aging Solutions

  Offers advice for caregivers including daily living solutions, comprehensive checklists, and links to other eldercare sites.

   

• CareGuide

  Helps to locate care for children or elderly by geographic location. Brief articles advising how to evaluate a care facility.

• Long Term Care Link

  The webmaster acknowledges a bias in favor of purchasing long-termcare insurance. However, it provides useful information through articles and links to long term care services and providers.

Housing

• HousingLink

  This organization distributes low-income housing information for Twin Cities metro-region. Directory of housing searchable by location, housing type, available subsidies and accessibility.

   

Parenting

• CHADD

  From the national non-profit organization representing people of all ages with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder(AD/HD), it includes basic information, applicable education laws, links.

• Parenting Education Resources

  Resources to assist families to learn more about social network web site issues as teens and others use web sites such as MySpace and Facebook.

• ParentsPlace.com

  Useful information from experts on fertility, pregnancy and parenting.

Pets

• Care for Pets

  Ideas from the American Veterinary Medical Association on caring for pets.

• Cat Fancier's Association Cat Breeds

  Learn about cat breeds.

   

• Dog Breed Information Center

  Learn about dog breeds.

   

Safe Kids Campaign

• The National Safe Kids Campaign

  Includes basics on safety for babies and children in the home and car, or on playground. Child safety laws by State.

   

Statistics on the Family

• From the Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics

  This site provides federal and state statistics and reports on children and families. Includes: economic security,health, education and more.