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

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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.

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.

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.

This book is extremely disturbing. To write a book on how to swindle and con a mother out of a child! She is acting like she is looking to buy a dog or something! Very disturbing.

As a single woman in my 40's, none of the many adoption agencies that I contacted were very optimistic about my chances of being selected by a birthmother. They all suggested that I try foster care, but I didn't want to go that route due to the uncertainties of having to give the child back. Then a friend gave me this book as a gift and it changed my life! I took the proactive approaches recommended in this book and within 6 months I was selected by a birthmother to adopt her twins. I have since adopted twice more and each time was selected in less than 6 months. Best of all, the costs were way less than any of the agencies would have charged.

Our attorney recommended this book. I read it from cover to cover. It's fantastic. If you're serious about adopting, take the proactive roll, advertise and forward the calls to your personal cell phone. This book is easy reading and so informative. I can't tell you how great it was. We were very fortunate and adopted quickly and smoothly. Get involved with the adoption process and the search for a birth mother. Your communication with her is essential. Best of luck!

I have read a lot of books on how to adopt and this one was by far the most helpful. Unlike others,it offers extremely practical advice, written clearly and leads readers through the domestic adoption process in a step by step way. It describes exactly what to do, what not to do and why. This book helped clear up a lot of confusion I had about adoption. For example, I learned that during the hospital experience,it is common for birth mothers to want to see and hold their baby, even if they have already decided to relinquish their child. Thanks to Dr. Burns, I would never have known this and would have probably gone to the hospital, seen this and flipped out completely. I strongly recommend this book to anyone who is interested in adopting.

Fast Track Adoption is a wonderful book full of practical advice on everything from how to write a good letter to a prospective birthmother to how to handle the birthmother's hospital stay. I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book and would recommend it to anyone considering adopting.

Having thoroughly read Fast Track Adoption I find it to be a wonderful book that is very sensitively written. The author shows a lot of respect for both the birthmothers and pregnant women who are considering adoption. [...] Dr. Burns goes out of her way to stress the importance of honesty over persuasion and manipulation. Fast Track Adoption offers anyone who is thinking about adoption not only a path to a faster adoption but, most important, a very ethical one.

My wife and I will use the adoption process to start our family. Like many couples, medical reasons have us pursuing this avenue. We've begun by reading a number of books and engaging adoptive support groups. We both read Fast Track Adoption, and will undoubtally pursue the approach that Dr. Burns explains. The book gave us confidence in knowing that we'll be successful, because of its many practical tips.