The Gay Adoption Mailing List

http://listserv.icors.org/archives/gay-aparent.html

The Gay Adoption Mailing List's aim is to to provide support and information to G/B/L/T families who are considering adoption, and those who have adopted. The list is intended to focus specifically on concerns related to adoption by G/B/L/T persons. 

Rules of Usage

Subscribers are asked to keep postings "on topic".  The list is NOT a place to send virus warnings, chain letters, and business promotion messages.  COMMERCIAL POSTINGS ARE STRICTLY PROHIBITED. If you have something to sell, you are in the wrong place!  Anyone posting advertisements to this list will be deleted immediately and without warning.  

Cross listing postings (posting a message from this list to another list)  is  STRICTLY PROHIBITED without prior consent of the author of the original message.

Posting of copyrighted material to the list without permission of the copyright holder may be an infringement of copyright, and could subject you to civil penalties including fines of tens of thousands of dollars. The list owners are not copyright attorneys and cannot presume to advise you which postings may be an infringement.  We also do not review messages for copyright or anything else before they are sent to the list.  When in doubt get permission before posting. You alone are responsible for any copyright infringement caused by your posting of copyrighted materials, and you are strongly discouraged from posting material if doing so might infringe copyright. 

You may quote messages posted to this list when you are replying to the list, as long as you indicate who the quote is from.  For any other use of messages you see on this list, you must contact the originator of the message for permission. 

List members are asked to practice proper "netiquette".  To brush up on you you netiquette, go to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netiquette

The gay adoption mailing list is for gays and lesbians considering adoption, and those who have adopted.  The list contains lots of information on gay adoption. On the list, gay parents can correspond with other gay parents and gain valuable information about gay adoption.  The focus of discussion on the list is primarily centered around the issues gay and lesbian parents are faced with when raising adoptive children.  The list is open to both gay men and lesbian woman.  The list is currently about 50% gay men and 50% lesbian woman.  The list is also split about 50/50 in regards to domestic gay adoption and international gay adoption.