The Open Adoption Book: A Guide to Adoption Without Tears

by Bruce M. Rappaport

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0028621700
• ISBN13: 9780028621708
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Wiley
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

Dated but good

This book is a little dated, but it was very informative. Not much has changed in the Open Adoption world since this book was written.

A good although biased review of open adoption

First, I'm not sure where the 'guide to adoption without tears' come from, but that being said this is still a good book for people who have doubts about open adoption, so they can find out the good advantages of it. That being said, I believe that the book is too biased sometimes and not very objective. Still a very good read for people wanting to know more about open adoption.

A must read for anyone considering Open Adoption!

My husband and I are in the very beginning stages of looking into adoption. We were not aware of "open" adoption, until I ran across this book. Both of us were leary, but the book explained open adoption in such detail that we were true believers. The Open Adoption Book not only explains open adoption, but all avenues of adoption to help you dicide on what is best for you and your family. It is written in languange that is understandable and easy to read. I think this book is a must read for anyone considering open adoption.