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Beating the Adoption Odds Revised and Updated

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ISBN-10: 0156005220

ISBN-13: 9780156005227

Edition: 1998 (Revised)

Authors: Cynthia D. Martin, Dru Martin Groves, Ph. D. Martin

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The completely revised and updated edition of “the definitive guide to modern infant adoption” (Los Angeles Times).
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Book details

List price: $45.00
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 4/23/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 608
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.92" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English

Dru Martin Groves, M.A. is the Director of A Center for Adoption Services.nbsp; She is a registered counselor with more than 14 years of experience in the field of adoption and works out of an office in Bainbridge Island, Washington.Dru has worked extensively with birthmothers making decisions about their unplanned pregnancies and with birthmothers who have placed children many years ago.nbsp; She works with couples hoping to adopt and with children who were adopted.nbsp; Dru has training and experience in grief counseling and in adoption reunions.As an adopted child, Dru brings a unique perspective to the adoption process - one that places the child's best interests first, but acknowledges…    

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Considering Adoption: What to Know Before You Begin
Adoption Works
Before You Begin
An Underlying Issue
Special Parents with Special Needs
Your Adoption Options
Agencies in Transition
Different Ways for Different People
A Distant Resource
An Option Worth Considering
Looking for - and Finding - a Child: Reaching Out for Success
Planning Your Search: A Practical Guide
The Search: Casting a Wide Net
Are You Really Ready?
We Have the Baby, but ...
Anticipating, Confronting, and Solving Problems
Adoption for Life: A Lifelong Commitment for Everyone
Talking with Your Child about Adoption
Open Birth Records, Searches, and Reunions
Making Adoption Better for Everyone
States Allowing Independent Adoption and Advertising
Placement Reports - Adoptive Parent Home Study and Postplacement Adoption Appraisal
Preplacement Report - International Adoptive Parent Home Study
Prospective Parent Letters
Letter to Birth Mother Who Requests More Information
Organizations and Resources for Adoption
Children's Books on Adoption
Notes
Bibliography
Index