Ellen Herman is a professor of contemporary American history at the University of Oregon and the creator of the Adoption History Project. She is the author of Kinship by Design: A History of Adoption in the Modern United States, which examines the history of modern adoption.

David Brodzinsky is a research and project director at the Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute in Oakland, Calif. He is an expert on the psychology of adoption in children, adoption research, interracial adoption, adoption outcomes, foster care, stress and coping in children, developmental psychopathology and divorce and child custody issues. He co-edited The Psychology of […]

Shay Bilchik is a research professor and the founder and director of the Center for Juvenile Justice Reform at Georgetown University’s Public Policy Institute. From 2000-2007 he served as president and CEO of the Child Welfare League of America. Before that, he was administrator of the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of Juvenile Justice and […]

Howard Altstein is a professor in the University of Maryland School of Social Work with an expertise in adoption.

Philip Zimbardo, Stanford University professor emeritus of psychology, is the author of The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil. He was director of the Stanford Prison Experiment.

Adoption Today magazine is a resource for domestic and international adoption. Email through the website.

Kathleen Sands, an associate professor of American studies at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, is the author of Escape from Paradise: Evil and Tragedy in Feminist Theology. She says that in the 1970s, with the onset of liberation theology, religious scholars moved from thinking of evil as an absence of the good to viewing sin as […]

Adoptive Families magazine calls itself the leading adoption information source for families before, during, and after adoption.

Adoption.com provides information and resources for all involved in the adoption process. Contact through the website.