The Open Adoption Book: A Guide to Making Adoption Work for YouISBN: 978-0-02-862170-8
Paperback
208 pages
January 1998
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Updated for a New Paperback Edition, the Definitive Guide to Open
Adoption, by the founder of the Open Adoption Movement The
exploding popularity of open adoption today underscores what
adopting parents, birthparents, and many adoption experts now
maintain: Open adoption is the healthiest, most humane, and fastest
method available. It's better for the birthmother, because she (not
lawyers or social workers) decides the future of her child. It's
better for children, because they're raised without the shroud of
secrecy and stigma that accompanies most closed adoptions. And it's
better for adopting parents, because it dramatically shortens the
time it takes to obtain a baby, from an average of seven years to
under one year. As director of one of the country's leading open
adoption agencies and founder of the first nationwide network of
open adoption organizations, Bruce Rappaport has facilitated
thousands of successful open adoptions and acquired an intimate
understanding of the most common and heartfelt concerns of parents
seeking to adopt a baby. Interweaving personal stories and
real-life experiences of adopting parents, birthparents, and
adopted children, he answers the questions clients most frequently
ask:
* What is an open adoption? How does it differ from traditional adoption?
* Will I ever feel like a real parent if my child's biological mother knows I'm raising her child? Will she interfere?
* What if the birthmother changes her mind after the adoption?
* How long will it take to get a child?
Documenting answers with extensive personal experience and research, Dr. Rappaport paints a reassuring yet realistic picture of the open adoption process. The result is a highly informative, deeply moving book that will help many people realize the greatest joy life can offer.
* What is an open adoption? How does it differ from traditional adoption?
* Will I ever feel like a real parent if my child's biological mother knows I'm raising her child? Will she interfere?
* What if the birthmother changes her mind after the adoption?
* How long will it take to get a child?
Documenting answers with extensive personal experience and research, Dr. Rappaport paints a reassuring yet realistic picture of the open adoption process. The result is a highly informative, deeply moving book that will help many people realize the greatest joy life can offer.