The Independent Adoption Manual: From Beginning to Baby
- ISBN-10
- 0963741004
- ISBN-13
- 9780963741004
- Category
- Adoption
- Pages
- 395
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1993
- Publisher
- Advocatepress
- Author
- Laura Beauvais-Godwin
Description
THE INDEPENDENT ADOPTION MANUAL, a 400-page, reader-friendly, how-to book, is the most comprehensive, up-to-date book on independent adoption. This book demonstrates how a couple can adopt an infant in about one year without spending a fortune. The book covers the following topics: choosing an adoption attorney, the legal process, the home study process (including sample home studies), identified agency adoptions, finding a birth mother, & dealing with birth families. This book also covers medical issues including dealing with obstetricians & hospital personnel. Also extensively covered is prenatal exposure to drugs & alcohol & ways a couple can decide if they should go through with an adoption when health risks/problems are involved. Nearly every adoption professional will find the extensive resource lists a great benefit. The references include 700 newspapers that accept adoption ads, plus 3,000 newspapers that are part of statewide networks that run adoption ads; 200 adoption attorneys; & the names, addresses, & telephone numbers for each state's Adoption Specialist, Bar Association & Interstate Compact Personnel. Each state's adoption laws are outlined in a question & answer format. To order call The AdvocatePress at (908) 363-7600 or write to First State Bank Building, 555 Madison Ave., Lakewood, NJ 08701.
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