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.
