Fast Track Adoption: The Faster, Safer Way to Privately Adopt a Baby [Paperback]

Dr. Susan Burns (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 5, 2003

Most 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 hospital

With 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.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"I applaud Susan Burns for her detailed and meticulous guide . . . I share with her the belief that anyone who dreams of a baby to adopt has the inherent ability to make that dream come true."
--Karen R. Lane, Esq. Founder and Past President of The American Academy of Adoption Attorneys

About the Author

Susan 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.

Product Details

• Paperback: 288 pages
• Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin; First Edition edition (December 5, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0312307012
• ISBN-13: 978-0312307011
• Product Dimensions: 8.1 x 5.5 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #339,689 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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36 of 43 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Some inaccurate info, May 24, 2006

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Fruit Loop (Down South) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Fast Track Adoption: The Faster, Safer Way to Privately Adopt a Baby (Paperback)

This book seems to be more about how to gain a birthmother's trust and confidence in order to get her baby, and how to work the adoption system. In so doing, the book loses sight of the fact that adoption exists in order to provide children with loving homes, not to provide infertile couples with children.

She does, however, help to explode a myth: that children placed for adoption are "unwanted." This is of course far from the truth, as Burns points out that birthmothers today usually aid in picking their child's parents and nearly always want to see, hold, and spend some time with their newborns prior to relinquishment.

Still, some of the advice can get potential adoptive parents into trouble, such as placing ads for a baby. In many states this is illegal.

Some advice in this book is helpful, but I must still urge potential adoptive parents to seek the assistance of a licensed adoption agency.

9 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Appalling, June 14, 2006

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Aaron's mom - See all my reviews

This review is from: Fast Track Adoption: The Faster, Safer Way to Privately Adopt a Baby (Paperback)

This book is basically aimed at manipulating, deceiving, and tricking pregnant women into placing their children. It's brutal and unethical. It takes advantage of the fact that prospective adoptive parents aren't thinking beyond getting the baby. But you have to raise an adoptive child---and how will that child feel when she discovers that her adoptive parents tricked her birthparents? What kind of a long term relationship will that gain for anybody?

Adoption is about more than acquiring a baby. It sets up a lifetime relationship between adoptive parents, birthparents, and a child. Before you take Susan Burns' advice, think about how you'll feel about what you've done when your child is twenty, and her birthparents get to explain everything that happened when she was born. Ethics are important, not just for birthparents, but for the adopting family and the adopted child.

11 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Horrifying, April 23, 2010

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anonymous - See all my reviews

This review is from: Fast Track Adoption: The Faster, Safer Way to Privately Adopt a Baby (Paperback)

As a future adoptive parent, I would prefer to have an ethical adoption. Not swindle a vulnerable woman out of her baby. This book is appalling. I am sad for the author's adoptive child. Clearly the author cares not for her child's best interests.