Adopting Online: Your #1 Guide to a Successful Adoption [Paperback]

Mardie Caldwell (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 1, 2006

AdoptingOnline.com offers practical, easy-to-follow guidelines for anyone interested in adopting a child. Whether you’re adopting domestically or internationally or adopting an older child or an infant, this amazing book tells you everything you need to know.

Learn how thousands of families have used the techniques in AdoptingOnline.com to find the child of their dreams—and how you can too with:
More than 1,200 adoption resources at your fingertips that will increase your chances of finding the child for you.
Practical easy-to-follow guidelines for anyone interested in adopting a child!
Simple techniques that thousands of adoptive parents have used to successfully adopt with the help of the Internet.
Guidelines for writing and posting a “Dear Birth Parent” letter that works!
Warning signs of scams and insights on how to pinpoint individuals who can hinder your adoption!
New financial resources for your adoption available on the Internet. Click here to read Chapter 14, Financing Your Adoption
Complete and up-to-date advice on safe and affordable adoptions.
Proven techniques for finding birth mothers.
Advice on how to safely network and screen professionals.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"After nearly two decades of helping would-be parents adopt, Mardie Caldwell decided to put her knowledge into a book..." -- Publishers Weekly Magazine, June 13, 2005

"Caldwell's book is a comprehensive guide to adopting a child..." -- The Union Newspaper, June 7, 2005

AdoptingOnline.com, is a valuable resource for couples or singles that are beginning the process of adoption. -- Gerald Bowman, LCSW, ACSW

AdoptingOnline.com, is a wealth of valuable information for anyone considering adoption. I highly recommend AdoptingOnline.com as the definitive authority. -- Frank F. Lunn, President Kahuna Business Group,
Author and adult adoptee.

An outstanding adoption resource! -- Marlou Russell, Ph.D, Author of Adoption Wisdom

As a professional, few issues touch my heart and soul like adoption. Thank you, Mardie Caldwell. -- Cheryl Ann Palmer, M.D., Pediatric Neuropathologist, Children's Hospital, Alabama

This is the most complete, concise and compassionate guide to the perils and joys of adoption available. -- Frank Stewart, adoptive father and nationally syndicated columnist

Review

“This is the most complete, concise and compassionate guide to the perils and joys of adoption available. Nobody can speak with more weight of authority or with more depth of experience than Mardie.”
Frank Stewart
Adoptive Father
Nationally Syndicated Columnist

"As an adoptive mother, as well as a child advocate, few issues touch my heart and soul like adoption. Mardie Caldwell has a talent for matching families longing to raise a child with children who need loving, stable homes. I have benefited immensely from her experience, and now others can reap the rewards of adoption from the information provided in AdoptingOnline.com. I hope this resource will encourage you to open both your heart and your home to a child who needs you."

Cheryl Ann Palmer, M.D.
Pediatric Neuropathologist and Adoptive Mother

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Product Details

• Paperback: 488 pages
• Publisher: American Carriage House (March 1, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0970573413
• ISBN-13: 978-0970573414
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.3 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #648,077 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars If not for this book, I wouldn't know where to begin., January 16, 2005

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This review is from: Adopting Online: Your #1 Guide to a Successful Adoption (Paperback)

If not for this book, I wouldn't know where to begin. If not for Mardie Caldwell's efforts and talent, her caring heart and experience, I'd be swimming in the vast, endless sea of the Internet floundering around, stumbling upon wonderful websites, but lacking direction and guidance. Thank God for this book. It is a roadmap, clearly explaining everything from how to use a computer and the Internet, to pointing you towards adoption websites and resources. I'd never know most of these websites existed if not for Mardie's book. Her work is a blessing, and am indebted to her for pouring much of her time and heart into this book.

Whatever your circumstances: the pains of infertility, wanting to adopt to add to your current family, or wanting to adopt because you're like me- you just know it's the right thing for you and the child you eventually end up with, I strongly recommend the book Adopting Online.com by Mardie Caldwell. I've looked in bookstores, on the Internet- and have never found such a concise, easy to understand adoption book that breaks down the process and guides you, step by step, through the entire adoption process and then some.

If I could personally thank Mardie Caldwell for writing this book, I'd do it. The next best thing is posting a book review in the hopes that she'll see it, and others will discover, as I have, this amazing adoption resource book.

3 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Two different titles for the SAME book published within in 4 months?!!!, February 25, 2008

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This review is from: Adopting Online: Your #1 Guide to a Successful Adoption (Paperback)

BUYER BEWARE: I purchased this book and Adoption: Your Step-by-Step Guide (also by Mardie Caldwell) and to my surprise THEY WERE ACTUALLY THE SAME BOOK, PUBLISHED LESS THAN FOUR MONTHS APART UNDER DIFFERENT TITLES! Nowhere did it say that one was a minimally updated version of the other.

While the information that these books contain is very good, I find it a very shady practice indeed to publish two books in this manner less than 4 months apart without informing potential buyers of the duplication. It has left me very wary of the author and the publisher. In fact, I would guess the US ISBN Agency would be interested in knowing these books are the same...