LDS Family Services is one of the largest private, nonprofit adoption agencies in the world.

Bethany Christian Services is a global nonprofit organization caring for orphans and vulnerable children on five continents. They are one of the largest adoption agencies in the country. Email through the website.

Sanford Levinson is W. St. John Garwood and W. St. John Garwood, Jr. Centennial Chair in Law and Professor of Government at the University of Texas School of Law and editor of the book Torture (Oxford University Press, 2004).

Concerned United Birthparents, based in California, began as a support group for birth parents and other birth family members. The group promotes open adoption records and family searches, proposes that most adoptions can and should be prevented and helps some families keep their children when they’re considering adoption because of financial stress. Contact Sarah Burns.

Bastard Nation is known for militant advocacy of adoptees’ right to information about legal and genetic background as a civil right. Contact through the form on their website.

Karen Greenberg is director of the Center on National Security at the Fordham University.

The Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute, founded in 1996, is a national not-for-profit organization devoted to improving adoption policy and practice. They Institute has offices in New York and Boston. April Dinwoodie is the executive director.

Pact is a national nonprofit that provides education and adoption service to children of color, their birth parents and their adoptive parents. Beth Hall is the founder and executive director.

The Child Welfare League of America in Arlington, Va., is a coalition of hundreds of private and public member agencies and a leader in the national child welfare movement, beginning with efforts to abolish orphanages in the 1920s and ’30s. The organization also is a center for information about cultural and racial diversity, including efforts […]