Massachusetts Adoption Resource Exchange - MARE provides resources, programs and services related to older and special needs adoption. This site provides information on the adoption process as well as a partial photolisting of children available for adoption.
Adopting.org: Interactive Support Center - Message boards for support and interaction with experts on a variety of subjects; including legal issues, special needs, single parent adoption, international adoption, and open adoption.
Practical Attachment - Practical Attachment describes developmental, social and emotional issues of young children who spent their infancy in institutions. Parenting strategies for children with unusual behavioral issues.
Unique Families: Adoption and Special Needs - Support for parents with special needs children or children who are adopted. Mailing lists, articles by parents and professionals, resources.
Babies
BabyCenter - Advice from pediatric experts, articles about pregnancy and child-rearing, consumer and health information are a few of the features of this extensive site.
Baby Names - Find baby names by sex, ethnic origin, number of syllables, and more.
Zero to Three - This searchable site contains information on a baby's healthy development from birth to age three.
Child Health and Safety
SafeKids.Com - Safe Kids has been designed to encourage parent-child communication, rather than relying solely on filtering software, to teach young people to make intelligent online choices.
Talking With Kids About Tough Issues - "A national initiative by Children Now and the Kaiser Family Foundation to encourage parents to talk with their children earlier and more often about tough issues like sex, HIV/AIDS, violence, alcohol, and drug abuse."
Parenting Children with Medical Needs - Online community for parents raising children with medical needs. Offers information on various medical conditions, calendar, and message board.
Divorce
Children's Rights Council -
Washington, DC-based group which advocates shared parenting, family formation, and extended family preservation for children of divorcees.
The Divided Heart - Articles for parents, kids and teens as well as a list of recommended books.
Education
DiscoverySchool.com - Practical advice to parents who are about to make the choice of the type of education for their children.
Great Sites -
Created by librarians, recommended sites for preschool-elementary age children and their parents.
Family Education Network -
A network of learning and information resources, and original content. A site designed to help parents, teachers, and students make learning part of their everyday lives.
Families
FamilyFun - Divided into 8 categories from Activities & Crafts to Travel. Expert advice on parenting, health, child development and family issues.
Facts for Families -
A collection of brief fact sheets developed by the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry on various issues of childhood and adolescence.
Fathers
Fatherhood Resources on the Web - Annotated collection of links to resources for fathers, from the Fatherhood Project - a national research and education program that supports men's involvement in childrearing.
Parental Media Guide - Designed as a one-stop site for concerned parents. The Classification and Rating Administration site, Reasons for Movie Ratings, has a database of all films rated since 1968.
Screen It - Thorough, reasonably unbiased reviews of current and recent movies and videos.
Kids-in-Mind - Subtitled The Parents' Guide to Movies & Video, this site provides "objective, non-critical assessments of the potentially objectionable material contained in movies."
Parents' Guide to the Information Superhighway - For parents whose children surf the Internet, by the Children's Partnership, with help from the National PTA, the National Urban League, and the American Library Association.
Mothers
Working Moms' Refuge -
A site for Moms juggling a career and family, help from the electronic community.
Principles of Parenting -
Provides access to pamphlets, reformatted for the web, on subjects from behavior to learning, from Auburn University and the Alabama Cooperative Extention.
MomAlone.com - Designed "to celebrate single motherhood and offer tools, resources, and support."
Responsible Single Fathers -
"Responsible Single Fathers is an organization of caring men and women working to help kids weather the difficulties often brought about by their parents' divorce, death, or ended relationship."
Special Needs Children
SchwabLearning.org - A Parent's Guide to Helping Kids with Learning Differences. Practical aids for parents to identify and manage their child’s learning differences (LD).
Special Families Resource Center -
Articles and answers to questions on parenting a child with a disability, from Robert Naseef, Ph.D.
Twins and Multiples
Twins (NOMTC) -
Official site; a non-profit, nation-wide support group for parents of twins and higher order multiple birth children.
The Triplet Connection -
A place for parents of higher order multiples to get information.
Multiple Births Canada/Naissances multiples Canada -
An organization that provides a network for parents of triplets, quadruplets and quintuplets to share information, experiences, advice, and guidance in multiple birth situations
Teenagers
Parenting Adolescents -
Questions about parenting teens and pre-teens, answered by licensed clinical social workers.
Parent-Teen -
Online magazine resource for parents of teens and preteens, with information on adolescence, parenting, education, college planning, physical and emotional health, driving, and humor.
Teenaged Parents
Young Moms - Provides support, resources and motivation to young mothers and pregnant teens.
The Young Mommies Community -
Offers a variety of resources for young (under 25) mothers. Webrings, links, and chat groups,