Let your decision-maker be Smart Guide to Adoption for Canadians . Adoption expert Jennifer Smart covers all the options for Canadian adopters. Robin Hilborn is publisher of the Adoption Helper series. Becoming a parent by adoption has been a different but wonderful experience. It is the greatest joy you will ever have when you finally meet your baby or child and become a family.
Life moves on to the next phase and the painful search is over.
Adoption in this new century is ever-changing. Owing to changing legislation governing both domestic and international adoption, the ways to adopt are becoming easier and more difficult, cheaper and more expensive, and generally as confusing as ever. In Canada, laws about reducing the time a child can spend in foster care are making more children available for adoption. Successfully adopting your child, unfortunately, still depends on how well you navigate the bureaucracy. The political climate of the day and society's misunderstanding of adoption, not the children's need for a permanent home, are very real barriers to adoption which you need to both understand and overcome.