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Based on years of experience in the field of adoption and as a birthmother in a successful open adoption with her now-adult son, social worker and adoption specialist Jennifer Joyce Pedley arms parents who are seeking to adopt a child with practical, comprehensive, and legally sound advice for taking charge of their adoption process. Pedley takes readers by the hand and demystifies the domestic adoption process, explaining exactly why it can be preferable to connect with an expectant mother directly rather than using the facilitation of a traditional agency, and how to do so with great success.

Jennifer Joyce Pedley is a birthmother and social worker who has helped people build their families through adoption since 1995. It was her own personal experience of placing her son in an open adoption, following his birth in 1990, which prompted her to become a social worker and make the field of adoption her primary professional focus.

Acknowledgments	p. vii
Introduction	p. 1
Second Choice/Second Best
The Case for Domestic Adoption	p. 6
Choosing the Least Bad Choice	p. 11
Fertility: Too Much or Too Little	p. 14
Becoming Comfortable with Being Uncomfortable: Open Adoption	p. 28
Why "Agency" Can Be a Four-letter Word	p. 44
"Simple Reproduction" Is an Oxymoron
The Many Roads to Adoption	p. 56
A Great Excuse to Clean Your Closets: The Home Study	p. 67
Being "Put Up" for Adoption: The ICPC	p. 76
Finding Professionals Who Truly Are	p. 84
Using Your MBA (Marketing for Baby's Adoption)
Nice to Meet You, Ken and Barbie	p. 100
Surf's Up-Making Friends with the Internet	p. 119
Putting It on Paper: Print Ads	p. 127
Putting Your Mouth Where Your Money Is	p. 136
Intermatchment: The Steps in Betweeen	p. 148
No, This Isn't Baseball (As You Can See from All the Crying)
Keep Your Head and Hands Inside the Car at All Times	p. 156
Weddings, Funerals, Baptisms, and Bar Mitzvahs-So Why Not Adoptions?	p. 164
When She Becomes the Mom	p. 172
Unlike a Highway, a Pet, or a Tree, This Adoption Is Forever
Exhaustion: It's Nature and Nurture	p. 184
My Parents, Your Parents, the Birthparents	p. 191
The Brother from Another Mother: Siblings	p. 200
"Hey, World, I'm A Dopted!"	p. 208
Birthmothering	p. 214
Selected References	p. 220
Recommended Resources	p. 222
Index	p. 225
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Secrets to Your Successful Domestic Adoption

Secrets to Your Successful Domestic Adoption

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