Beating the Adoption Odds: Revised and Updated [Paperback]

Cynthia D. Martin Ph. D. (Author), Dru Martin Groves (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 23, 1998

The completely revised and updated edition of “the definitive guide to modern infant adoption” (Los Angeles Times).

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review

We live at a time in history when infertility is at its highest and fewer babies are available for adoption--a climate in which prospective parents post pleas on the Internet, and people who are not young, straight, healthy, and thin face tremendous odds if seeking to adopt. Just in time, it seems, comes the newly revised edition of Beating the Adoption Odds, a creative and resourceful book designed to help all wannabe adopters find their baby.

Mother and adoptive daughter team Cynthia D. Martin and Dru Martin Groves (both professionals in the adoption field) offer the calm, reassuring voices of experience and encouragement as they explain the prospects and pitfalls of working with agencies, independent adoptions, international adoptions, special needs children, medical risks, and birth-family rights. Martin and Groves feel strongly that the question for prospective parents is not, "Can I find a child to adopt?" (yes, you can!) but "Can I do my adoption right?" This comprehensive manual gives you the tools and strategies you'll need. --Ericka Lutz

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We live at a time in history when infertility is at its highest and fewer babies are available for adoption--a climate in which prospective parents post pleas on the Internet, and people who are not young, straight, healthy, and thin face tremendous odds if seeking to adopt. Just in time, it seems, comes the newly revised edition of Beating the Adoption Odds, a creative and resourceful book designed to help all wannabe adopters find their baby.

Mother and adoptive daughter team Cynthia D. Martin and Dru Martin Groves (both professionals in the adoption field) offer the calm, reassuring voices of experience and encouragement as they explain the prospects and pitfalls of working with agencies, independent adoptions, international adoptions, special needs children, medical risks, and birth-family rights. Martin and Groves feel strongly that the question for prospective parents is not, "Can I find a child to adopt?" (yes, you can!) but "Can I do my adoption right?" This comprehensive manual gives you the tools and strategies you'll need. --Ericka Lutz

(Amazon.com Review - Ericka Lutz )

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Product Details

• Paperback: 608 pages
• Publisher: Mariner Books; Rev Upd Su edition (April 23, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0156005220
• ISBN-13: 978-0156005227
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 1.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,319,469 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 The best how-to book on adoption that I have read !!!, October 29, 1999

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Carol Swift (Oklahoma) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Beating the Adoption Odds: Revised and Updated (Paperback)

I highly recommend this book to anyone seeking well thought-out, insightful, complete information on adoption. I have read 5 adoption books in the last 3 weeks and this is the best by far!!!

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Insightful, honest, gives clear information, hopeful, Real!, May 26, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Beating the Adoption Odds: Revised and Updated (Paperback)

Beating the Adoption Odds:Using Your Head and Your Heart To Adopt gives an important, much needed look at adoption. A must have for anyone considering adopting or placing. The well-written, informative book helps people thru the maze of the adoption process teaching them how to do it right - anticipating problems, avoiding obstacles, and honestly dealing with the myriad issues involved with adoption. Written from a unique perspective of both a woman who has adopted 7 children of various wonderful backgrounds, Dr. Martin, with her oldest adopted daughter, Dru, give the reader an upclose and personal view into adoptions today. True adoption stories, a tell it like it is approach, hopeful, timely and invaluable. This unique Mother-Daughter team share with us infusing the reader with the joy of adoption!

17 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Unnecessary and Anxiety-Producing Information, April 23, 2001

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Julie (Los Angeles, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Beating the Adoption Odds: Revised and Updated (Paperback)

As an excited adoptive mother-to-be, I found this book to include completely unnecessary, anxiety-producing, and sometimes even judgemental information and commentary. After having experienced 5 years of infertility, AND read so many brilliant reviews about this book, I expected to encounter text that would conclusively lead me joyfully toward sourcing my children. Instead, I read ridiculous quips that urged me to "never underestimate the power of my social worker," second-guess myself in terms of the level of my education (I hold a terminal graduate degree), my age (40), and my decision to adopt internationally. I finally had to put the book away. Once tucked away, my husband and I breezed through our home study (no need for the anxiety caused by the countless "tips" about what to say and what not to say to your social worker), the building of our dossier, and are now awaiting the identification of a baby that will soon be ours. For sensitive folks like me, I do not recommend this book. There are several others that are much more helpful, supportive and informative.