The Open Adoption Book: A Guide to Adoption Without Tears Paperback - 1998 - 1st Edition
by Bruce M. Rappaport
In an open adoption, both the birthparents and adoptive parents are actively involved in all phases of the process. The successes of open adoption--now considered to the the healthiest (and fastest) form of adoption--have lifted it into the mainstream. Interweaving personal stories with answers to the questions most frequently asked about the process, this informative book is designed to help all parties overcome the anxieties often associated with adoption.
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Thirty or forty years ago, almost anyone could walk into an adoption agency and find a baby to adopt.
From the rear cover
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?
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- Title The Open Adoption Book: A Guide to Adoption Without Tears
- Author Bruce M. Rappaport
- Binding Paperback
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Pages 208
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Wiley, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date 1998-01-14
- ISBN 9780028621708 / 0028621700
- Weight 0.54 lbs (0.24 kg)
- Dimensions 8.26 x 5.52 x 0.51 in (20.98 x 14.02 x 1.30 cm)
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Themes
- Theometrics: Secular
- Topical: Family
- Library of Congress subjects Open adoption - United States
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 91042800
- Dewey Decimal Code 362.734
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