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E-mail Support Groups

We recommend that every family sign up for one of the many e-mail support groups that are available for almost every country.  Here are some groups for the countries we work in:

Russia and Ukraine:

https://www.eeadopt.org
Click on Services then on mailing list.
Sign up for APR � A-PARENT-RUSSIA list.
Be sure to sign up for the �digest�form

https://www.eead.org
follow instructions

https://yahoogroups.com
Search for international adoptions or Russian adoptions and choose the program for you.

https://frua.org
Also, in almost every larger city across the country is a FRUA organization.  Families for Russian and Ukrainian Adoptions.  Find out if your town has one of these groups, and go to one of their meetings. 

Guatemala:

Although the focus of the group is Guatemala, discussion of adoption and culture of other countries in Latin America is certainly welcome. To subscribe, send an email message to: listserv@sjuvm.stjohns.edu leaving the subject line blank. This should be a one-line message with no signature, and should read as follows:

subscribe Guatemala-Adopt firstname lastname
(substitute your real name for "firstname lastname" above)
 

https://www.lapa.com

Single Parents:
https://www.adopting.com/single-aparents/
The purpose of single-aparent is to provide a forum for the discussion of issues specific to the parenting of adopted children as a single person. The list is intended be a supportive network of single parents dealing with similar situations, sharing experiences and the common goal of
raising happy, healthy children.