Data on adoption, adopted children, and children placed for adoption by women 15-44 years of age are presented, based on the 1982 National Survey of Family Growth. The results of this analysis suggest that the downward trend in the annual number of adoptions observed from 1970 through 1975 has leveled off. White women giving birth premaritally were more likely than black women to place their children for adoption (make an adoption plan), and white women with college-educatedfathers were more likely to do so than those whose fathers had not completed high school. Women who made adoption plans were less likely to be dependent on public assistance at the time of the survey than women who raised premaritally born children themselves. Previous findings on the correlates of adoption for adoptive parents and adopted children are confirmed by this analysis.