The Complete Idiot's Guide to Adoption

by Christine A. Adamec

Book Overview

Offers advice on making an adoption application stand out, the latest adoption trends, and ways to spot scams, with profiles of real-life adopters and adoptees.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0028621085
• ISBN13: 9780028621081
• Release Date: December 1997
• Publisher: Alpha Books
• Length: 386 Pages
• Weight: 2.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.4" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Excellent book!!...

When beginning our adoption process this book was a life saver! It helped us figure out which adoption journey was best for us and explained each part of the process. It is an easy read and a perfect place to start when researching adoption. I have referred it to all my friends that are considering adoption and they have all raved about it as well. I referred to this book all throughout our process. It was definitely the best book I bought on adoptions. We are now the proud parents of a little angel from Russia and are currently waiting for another angel from Russia. If you're in the process of adopting, either domestically or internationally, buy this book, you'll be glad you did!

Don't let the title fool you! This is a great book!

This book is chock full of information on every aspect of adoption, including domestic, international, older child, special needs, transracial, state regulations, single parents, etc. I love it! My adoption counselor even bought a few copies for her office library!

Definitely a worthwhile purchase

In many ways, this book is better than all the overly earnest or psycho-babbly pastel-covered books available on adoption. In keeping with the "Idiot's Guide" approach, this book is reader-friendly, breezily-written, and full of info. I'm most impressed with the inclusion of unsentimental, nuts-and-bolts subjects like financing, avoiding adoption scams, and state-by-state adoption rules.

Great place to start

As a newly adoptive parent, I look back on our adoption journey, and this book was where we first started. Because the volume of adoption information available can be overwhelming, this book covers the basics and will help to introduce you to adoption and guide you in an adoption process that is right for you.

This Book is a need to read .

I don't know what my husband and I would have done without this book. All of our fear's about adoption it eased all our fear's. And had answer's to all the questions we had. This book is the Adoption Bible.It's up to date on everything .