Welcome to WikiProject:Adoption, fostering, orphan care and displacement (AFOD). Some Wikipedians have formed this collaboration resource and group dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of articles associated with adoption, foster care, and child abandonment issues. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions and various resources; it is hoped that this project will help focus the efforts of other Wikipedians interested in the topic. If you would like to help, please join the project, inquire on the talk page and see the to do list.

Goals[edit]

This WikiProject aims to create a consistent article structure for topics related to adoption, foster care, and child abandonment while simultaneously striving to develop and improve the articles. The goal is to make Wikipedia the best source of accurate and neutral information on for the full array of topics in the subject.

Scope[edit]

This WikiProject strives to develop and improve Wikipedia articles related to causes of child abandonment and the solutions society has attempted. The core group of articles includes: Adoption, Orphanage, Foster care, along with Orphan, Foundling, Child abandonment. This core group branches into a wide spectrum of sub-articles from forms of adoption such as International adoption to ethical issues such as the Language of adoption to forced removals such as the Stolen generation.

To-do list[edit]

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1. The Foster care article needs serious attention.
2. The International adoption articles requires significant work.
3. The Family preservation article remains below Wiki standards.
4. Update Adoption articles to reflect recent developments in open records (New Hampshire, Maine, Ontario, Manitoba, etc.), perhaps merge the articles.
5. Contribute to finding a new image.
6. Update Sealed birth records entry.
7. Create an Open records page, which does not redirect to Open adoption.
8. Create articles for important adoption-related organizations such as: The American Adoption Congress and Evan B. Donaldson Institute.
9. Look into linking or merging the articles associated with adoption laws in various countries.

Current projects[edit]

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None at this time.

Article alerts[edit]

Articles for creation

• 27 Feb 2024 – Draft:Broken (2024 film) (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by 38.42.121.207 (t · c)
• 06 Feb 2024 – Draft:Christopher Ategeka (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Rosguill (t · c)

Guidelines[edit]

Adoption and foster care, in particular, are sensitive topics and views on the ethics and efficiency of these methods can differ dramatically, causing heated debates. As a result, the development of these articles, into factually accurate and credible resources, has been slow. We ask all editors take to heart the following suggestions:

• Assume good faith. People have different views on this subject. Don't be surprised when ideas obvious to you are baffling or upsetting to others.
• Try to keep emotions in check. We aim to ground articles in credible facts and unbiased history.
• Strive to maintain neutral language. Read the Language Suggestions to help avoid charged words and phrases. Adopting the phrases from either Positive Adoption Language and Honest Adoption Language will upset someone. Take the extra time to modify a sentence, you will save endless conflict.

New articles[edit]

Newer articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them, are at least over 1,500 characters, don't have any dispute templates on them, and cite their sources, should be suggested for the Did you know? box on the Wikipedia Main Page.

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Project banner[edit]

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