Adopting: Sound Choices, Strong Families
From infertile heterosexual couples to same-sex couples to single parents anyone who has struggled wit barriers to family-building faces similar losses and similar decisions about their next steps. But what should those next stepos be and is adoption the best way to go? Adopting: Sound Choices, Strong Families was written to help those who find themselves family-challenged, as it explores the adoption process within the context of deeply personal and emotional obstacles and encourages readers to actively address, examine and puzzle out the process before adoptive parenthood begins.Adopting: Sound Choices, Strong Families is not a how to guide for the adoption process, It does not specifically detail the nuts and bolts topics such as which adoption agencies to contact or what paperwork is required. Rather, its goal is to serve as an experienced, compassionate guide through the hard questions that must be addressed and examined before any realisitic decisions about adoption can be made. It also provides support and practical advice that readers will need after they make their own decisions about adoption.This is a book that explores the process of adopting asn an emoitonal journey tht begins with [a family challenge] and takes the reader through the decision making, preparation and experience of adopting. This book does a great job of looking at the deeper issues and acknowledging the complexity of feelings and experience that are all part of adoption today. If you are not infertile or are a single parent, don t be put off by the focus on couples communication and the grief of infertility in the first section; the other sections are well worth the read.Pat is a good writer and well organized as she addresses the issues faced by adopting families. No one speaks more clearly or directly to and for this group. Required reading for waiting Pact families --Beth Hall, Pact: An Adoption Alliance, CAHaving placed my son for adoption almost a decade ago, only through Adopting: Sound Choices, Strong Families have I come to know and respect the dragons faced by my sons adoptive parents. Underlying this book is a great how-to guide for communication in marriages and partnerships, whether the issue faced is infertility or who cleans what when! Through Pat Johnston s insight, expertise, and personal experience in the fields of adoption and infertility, she brings knowledge and understanding to a diverse audience of readers from infertile couples and singles, to their children, to supportive family members and friends, to parents considering placement and birthparents who stand on the other side of the adoption process, to the media and general public. Certainly, a must read. --Courtney Lewis, birthparent and adoption advocatePat Johnston has the unique ability to understand the feelings of a person struggling with infertility and has once again shown why she is the authority on infertility and adoption resources. Adopting: Sound Choices, Strong Families is a wonderful tool that will help many people trying to make the transition from the emotional burdens of infertility to adoption. I would recommend this book for my infertility patients, regardless of where they are in the treatment process --Jeffrey Deaton, MD, Premier Fertility Center, NCFrom infertile heterosexual couples to same-sex couples to single parents anyone who has struggled wit barriers to family-building faces similar losses and similar decisions about their next steps. But what should those next stepos be and is adoption the best way to go? Adopting: Sound Choices, Strong Families was written to help those who find themselves family-challenged, as it explores the adoption process within the context of deeply personal and emotional obstacles and encourages readers to actively address, examine and puzzle out the process b --Courtney Lewis, birthparent and adoption advocateFrom infertile heterosexual couples to same-sex couples to single parents anyone who has struggled wit barriers to family-building faces similar losses and similar decisions about their next steps. But what should those next stepos be and is adoption the best way to go? Adopting: Sound Choices, Strong Families was written to help those who find themselves family-challenged, as it explores the adoption process within the context of deeply personal and emotional obstacles and encourages readers to actively address, examine and puzzle out the process before adoptive parenthood begins.Adopting: Sound Choices, Strong Families is not a how to guide for the adoption process, It does not specifically detail the nuts and bolts topics such as which adoption agencies to contact or what paperwork is required. Rather, its goal is to serve as an experienced, compassionate guide through the hard questions that must be addressed and examined before any realisitic decisions about adoption can be made. It also provides support and practical advice that readers will need after they make their own decisions about adoption.This is a book that explores the process of adopting asn an emoitonal journey tht begins with [a family challenge] and takes the reader through the decision making, preparation and experience of adopting. This book does a great job of looking at the deeper issues and acknowledging the complexity of feelings and experience that are all part of adoption today. If you are not infertile or are a single parent, don t be put off by the focus on couples communication and the grief of infertility in the first section; the other sections are well worth the read.Pat is a good writer and well organized as she addresses the issues faced by adopting families. No one speaks more clearly or directly to and for this group. Required reading for waiting Pact families --Beth Hall, Pact: An Adoption Alliance, CAHaving placed my son for adoption almost a decade ago, only through Adopting: Sound Choices, Strong Families have I come to know and respect the dragons faced by my sons adoptive parents. Underlying this book is a great how-to guide for communication in marriages and partnerships, whether the issue faced is infertility or who cleans what when! Through Pat Johnston s insight, expertise, and personal experience in the fields of adoption and infertility, she brings knowledge and understanding to a diverse audience of readers from infertile couples and singles, to their children, to supportive family members and friends, to parents considering placement and birthparents who stand on the other side of the adoption process, to the media and general public. Certainly, a must read. --Courtney Lewis, birthparent and adoption advocate