MESA, AZ, December 30, 2010 (Press-News.org) Adoption.com's registry is the #1 online adoption reunion registry available today. People across the United States have successfully found and reunited with children, parents, and siblings by creating and searching through our search and reunion profiles. Adoption.com extends help and support to all members of the adoption triad and to search angels assisting individuals in their searches for family members or pertinent information.
Launched in 1998, Adoption.com's Search and Reunion Registry was designed with the intent to help birth families reconnect. As the years passed, our registry has rapidly grown, making us the largest free online source for adoption related searches.
The top two search groups who have created profiles are adoptees, at an estimated 53.5%, and birth mothers, at 23.3%. The list continues to include birth fathers, search angels, birth siblings, and even adoptive family members searching on behalf of an adoptee. New profiles from those across the adoption spectrum are registered each day, making all those who are searching one step closer to reconnecting and reuniting. A little over 2% of the profiles created are by search angels. These men and women across the United States dedicate their time, adoption knowledge, and energy to helping searchers retrieve important information, so that the searchers can establish contact when they are ready or gather important medical information.
Searchers across the country have benefited from Adoption.com's registry. Several have shared their search and reunion stories on our site. Here are some recent comments from a few of our searchers:
"I want to thank you for this site. Because of this site my daughter found me and we will be seeing each other for the first time in 35 years.. On January 13th 2011... A big thank you to you..."
"Thank you for having a site for those who are searching. The emptiness of not knowing who you look like, why you were given up, and where you came from are questions that only go away once you find who you are looking for. Never give up! My bio-family (both sides!) welcomed me with open arms. A reunion is emotionally hard on everyone, but mostly on the birth mother who gave up a tiny baby and possibly meets an adult. Go slow, and remember for years your bio-parents thought of you each day and felt a different loss than you did as an adoptee."
"I was very fortunate to find my birth mother through your website. It was quick and easy. turns out that she was adopted too, and she was registered on your site as well. She and I have a very good relationship now. Thank you!"
Adoption.com began in 1996 by father-son team Dale and Nathan Gwilliam. Based out of Mesa, Arizona, a Phoenix suburb, Adoption.com is an informational site that provides important content, support, and insight to all sides of the adoption triad--birth/first parents, adoptees, and adoptive parents. With thousands of pages of relevant articles and content, Adoption.com covers pregnancy, adopting, foster care and foster adoption, post-adoption and parenting, and search and reunion. And beyond providing essential adoption-related information, Adoption.com helped organize and participate in the "Bears for Brazil" program, providing teddy bears to children in Brazilian orphanages.
Alongside the high number of online articles, Adoption.com has daily blogs written from a variety of viewpoints, adoption issues, stages of life, and sides of the adoption triad. This ensures that the entire adoption population is represented appropriately in the many discussions of adoption laws, adoption relationships, and the adoption process. Adoption.com also provides free forums, in order to encourage relevant discussion, promote healthy relationships and perspectives, and supply a stable, sturdy support system from others in similar situations.
Adoption.com also produces a monthly E-magazine, covering the topics of adopting, pregnancy, foster care, search and reunion, and post-adoption. Each E-Magazine features a fresh article under each section and new, interesting blogs. Also included in the Adoption.com Monthly E-Magazine are tips and advice, upcoming adoption events, and real life stories from Adoption.com readers.
If you've used the Reunion Registry and have a story that you'd like to share, please submit it. Your story can help others find hope in their futures and in their search and reunion journeys. We also invite registered users to let us know how we're doing by taking our adoption registry survey. If you haven't started your reunion journey, register now to begin your search today.
Adoption.com is committed to assisting the adoption community in helping as many children as possible find loving, permanent homes. We provide critical information, educating and edifying women facing crisis pregnancies, assist adoptees and birth parents in finding birth families, and help hopeful adoptive parents make adoption dreams come true.
Website: http://adoption.com
Adoption.com's Reunion Registry Reaches 400,000!
Adoption.com Registry is the #1 adoption reunion registry available today. Reaching 400,000 unique users, Adoption.com's Search and Reunion Registry is bringing families together one profile at a time.
2010-12-30
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[Press-News.org] Adoption.com's Reunion Registry Reaches 400,000!Adoption.com Registry is the #1 adoption reunion registry available today. Reaching 400,000 unique users, Adoption.com's Search and Reunion Registry is bringing families together one profile at a time.