Jackie
04-09-2004, 06:08 PM
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Fast Track Adoption : The Faster, Safer Way to Privately Adopt a Babyby Susan Burns (Author)
About the AuthorSusan Burns, Psy.D., is an adoptive mother of two and a licensed psychologist with over 17 years of experience helping children and families. Using the Fast Track method, Burns and her husband, Scott, adopted their first baby in October 1997 and their second baby in April 2001. She currently lives with her family in Hawaii.
Book DescriptionMost couples in the U.S. have to wait up to seven years to adopt an infant domestically-and all the expense and waiting doesn't always result in a successful adoption. Now, rather than relying on slow-paced and expensive adoption agencies, many couples are choosing to privately adopt a child. By eliminating the adoption agency, couples can customize and control their own adoption plan.Inside this book, couples will learn how becoming proactive in the adoption process may significantly speed up the adoption. Following the Fast Track method, readers will learn how to:· Establish a budget· Assemble a professional team· Obtain an approved home study· Prepare an effective family profile· Advertise for and talk to potential birth mothers· Detect warning signs for frauds and scams· Be prepared at the hospitalWith this book as their guide, potential parents can actively pick their own birth mother. By doing so, couples will save time and money, reduce stress, and, most importantly, find a baby to adopt.
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Reviewer: A reader from Ca, USAAnyone interested in this book should look into the AdoptionForums website regarding the authors adoption and birthmother. This does not include a happy ending. Open adoptions need to be respected and whatever promises adoptive families make- they need to keep their end of the bargain- for the childs sake. This family failed to see the importance of this. This child will never know her birthmother.
How To Destroy A Family, April 9, 2004 Reviewer: fourbagger from Sanford, FLI am appalled that this book exists. Anyone who thinks that there is no longer coercion in adoption needs to read this book. It's subtle but it is there in abundance. Taking this kind of advantage of a young, vulnerable woman is criminal. Every new Mom should have the opportunity to have time with her baby before she makes such a life-altering "decision."It has also only furthered my opinion of most adopters as being selfish and self-serving and caring not one whit for the consequences to the baby or that baby's true Mother.There will be the hue and cry about the infamous "dumpster babies," but most adopters don't want those children. They only want that Healthy White Infant with which they can play out their fantasies.The upshot of this book is, "get the kid, write a book, close the adoption and live selfishly ever after."
Not a child centred approach, April 9, 2004 Reviewer: paula_d7 from EuropeMs Burns writes a book that by its very title puts the wants and dreams of the prospective adoptive parents above all else. The child being taken from its rightful mothers arms, and the mother whose arms are left empty are of secondary importance. Approaching a preganant woman at her most vulnerable and then condoning the practice of the prospective adoptive parents being in the hospital at the time of the birth scream coercion. To view it any other way, would require huge selfishness.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0312307012/qid=1081558668/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1_xs_stripbooks_i1_xgl14/104-9418337-4268718?v=glance&s=books
Fast Track Adoption : The Faster, Safer Way to Privately Adopt a Babyby Susan Burns (Author)
About the AuthorSusan Burns, Psy.D., is an adoptive mother of two and a licensed psychologist with over 17 years of experience helping children and families. Using the Fast Track method, Burns and her husband, Scott, adopted their first baby in October 1997 and their second baby in April 2001. She currently lives with her family in Hawaii.
Book DescriptionMost couples in the U.S. have to wait up to seven years to adopt an infant domestically-and all the expense and waiting doesn't always result in a successful adoption. Now, rather than relying on slow-paced and expensive adoption agencies, many couples are choosing to privately adopt a child. By eliminating the adoption agency, couples can customize and control their own adoption plan.Inside this book, couples will learn how becoming proactive in the adoption process may significantly speed up the adoption. Following the Fast Track method, readers will learn how to:· Establish a budget· Assemble a professional team· Obtain an approved home study· Prepare an effective family profile· Advertise for and talk to potential birth mothers· Detect warning signs for frauds and scams· Be prepared at the hospitalWith this book as their guide, potential parents can actively pick their own birth mother. By doing so, couples will save time and money, reduce stress, and, most importantly, find a baby to adopt.
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Reviewer: A reader from Ca, USAAnyone interested in this book should look into the AdoptionForums website regarding the authors adoption and birthmother. This does not include a happy ending. Open adoptions need to be respected and whatever promises adoptive families make- they need to keep their end of the bargain- for the childs sake. This family failed to see the importance of this. This child will never know her birthmother.
How To Destroy A Family, April 9, 2004 Reviewer: fourbagger from Sanford, FLI am appalled that this book exists. Anyone who thinks that there is no longer coercion in adoption needs to read this book. It's subtle but it is there in abundance. Taking this kind of advantage of a young, vulnerable woman is criminal. Every new Mom should have the opportunity to have time with her baby before she makes such a life-altering "decision."It has also only furthered my opinion of most adopters as being selfish and self-serving and caring not one whit for the consequences to the baby or that baby's true Mother.There will be the hue and cry about the infamous "dumpster babies," but most adopters don't want those children. They only want that Healthy White Infant with which they can play out their fantasies.The upshot of this book is, "get the kid, write a book, close the adoption and live selfishly ever after."
Not a child centred approach, April 9, 2004 Reviewer: paula_d7 from EuropeMs Burns writes a book that by its very title puts the wants and dreams of the prospective adoptive parents above all else. The child being taken from its rightful mothers arms, and the mother whose arms are left empty are of secondary importance. Approaching a preganant woman at her most vulnerable and then condoning the practice of the prospective adoptive parents being in the hospital at the time of the birth scream coercion. To view it any other way, would require huge selfishness.
