- Paperback: 592 pages
- Publisher: Avon; 4 Sub edition (Oct 8 1998)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0062733613
- ISBN-13: 978-0062733610
- Product Dimensions: 20.4 x 13.5 x 3.5 cm
- Shipping Weight: 476 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #726,660 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Lois Gilman hasn't missed a thing in this comprehensive, informative and well-organized source of information.
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With the heart of an adoptive mother and the eye of a journalist, Lois Gilman navigates the often complicated but ultimately fulfilling world of adopting a child.
This practical, wise, and encouraging book contains all the information a couple or an individual needs to investigate adoption alternatives, arrange for and complete a successful adoption, and raise an adoptive family. Beginning with a broad overview of options for both domestic and foreign adoption, the author provides details about agencies, home studies, paperwork, and legal issues. Also covered are procedures for agency and independent adoptions as well as concerns about intercountry adoption, special-needs children, preparing for a child's arrival, and longer term questions about the impact of adoption on your family over the years.
This newly revised fourth edition features:
- more information on open adoption and creating the relationship with birth parents that's right for you and your child;
- the latest on financing an adoption, including loans, government subsidies, and tax credits;
- the best sources for pursuing an international adoption;
- new stories throughout from birth mothers, adoptive parents, and adopted children to illustrate adoption issues today, and a detailed bibliography for further reading;
- and completely updated listings of over a thousand domestic agencies, parent groups, information exchanges, and public service offices.
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So begins The Chosen Baby, Valentina P. Wasson' adoption classic for parents to read with their young children. Read the first page
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover
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3.0 out of 5 stars
good resource like it says on the cover!,
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This review is from: Adoption Resource Book, The (4/E) (Paperback)
For all those touched by adoption. Dispels the myths.I also recommend: For Late Discovery Adoptees: "Adoption Forum" by Kasey Hamner For anyone touched or interested in a true-life story: "Whose Child?" by Kasey Hamner "Primal Wound" by Nancy Verrier
4.0 out of 5 stars
Great resource for the prospective parent.,
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This review is from: Adoption Resource Book, The (4/E) (Paperback)
This book covers all aspects of the adoption process with clinical emphasis. It compares domestic and international adoptions. It compares agency vs. private adoptions. I think it is good to have the practical advice for successful adoptions but also, I recommend other books to learn about the affects of adoption on the triad members.Also recommended: Whose Child? by Kasey Hamner, Primal Wound by Nancy Verrier, and Adoption Healing by Joe Soll.
5.0 out of 5 stars
An objective resource for the prospective adoptive parents.,
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This review is from: Adoption Resource Book, The (4/E) (Paperback)
I get dizzy just thinking about the amount of work that went into this resource! I like the fact that the author not only leads one through the myriad of steps toward adoption, but that she is also devoting chapters on parenting issues after the child comes home, and some important longer-term issues about raising an adoptive family. We adopted our daughter in 1969 and received neither pre- nor post-adoptive advice or help. I'm surprised we got through it all and that everything turned out well for us and our daughter. I am especially pleased that the author cautions adoptive parents not to tell their child that the birthmother gave him up because she loved him so much. I never told our daughter this either but rather the plain fact that there was no dad and the birthmother had no way of raising any child at this time of her life. Thank you, Lois, for your wonderful book.Gisela Gasper Fitzgerald, author of ADOPTION: An Open, Semi-Open or Closed Practice?
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