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So I Was Thinking About Adoption...: Considering Your Choices

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This new book is honest, easy to read, and doesn't pressure the audience into one perspective or another. I appreciate the smart graphics, not outdated like many of the materials for women in a position to research an adoption plan. This book asks the tough questions and is interactive in format. With so many books and support out there for people who want to adopt, it's about time there was an actual book for any woman facing her parenting options, including what an open adoption could be like. In addition, this book will make a great training resource for adoption advocates and for any person who may help a pregnant woman consider her choices. Well done!

My son actually brought this book home from school. He is in high school and is taking a life study course on pregnancy and teens who decide to parent. This is a topic that isnt discussed enough in schools but should be. This book is also a journal (blank pages to write on) and really points out things women (and guys) should consider before making the decision to parent a child - emotional responsiblity, financial responsibility, family members involved - education, health insurance. I also learned alot about open adoption and legal rights of parents that I didnt know before. I think it would be a good book for health clinics and social workers too.So I Was Thinking About Adoption...: Considering Your Choices I was glad to see this on Amazon

This attractive book is practical, personal and powerful to any woman considering adoption as a parenting choice. Written in a compassionate and straight-talking voice, it asks relevant questions and provides trusted resources to assist her in exploring adoption. This guidebook not only helps her navigate personal thoughts about adoption, but it also helps her talk to her family, friends and the father of her baby as well. To offer a realistic view the book highlights personal stories of others who have chosen adoption for their baby. Pregnancy resource centers, counselors and even Obstetricians should make this resource available to all of their clients experiencing an unplanned pregnancy.

I'm so glad I found this book because I was able to give it to a young woman I work with that told me she was pregnant a few weeks ago, and she's just not ready to be a mom. She said she loves her boyfriend, but they don't even live on their own yet, and she always wanted to be married before she had a child. I really didn't know what to say to her that day, and realizing that she was in a very emotional state, I turned to books for help. This was the one book I found that was current enough to be appealing to her (she is only 23). I am really thankful this was available, because it was something I could give to her that she could go through and use on her own, and then make her own decision about what's best for her and her baby.

So I Was Thinking About Adoption... is an informative, helpful and straight to the point book. Small enough to fit in your purse, but packed with questions and answers to help may an informed decision. I love the journal areas and inviting images.

Not everyone is ready to be a parent. "So I Was Thinking About Adoption: Considering Your Choices" is for women who are faced with the life changing situation of an unplanned pregnancy. Outlining everything a woman needs to know, guidance for dealing with one's family and the father, and a step-by-step walkthrough for the process, it leaves nothing out. "So I was Thinking About Adoption" is a must for any woman who is facing a tough decision in nine months or less.

I like that this book is short enough to read in one sitting and is very easy to understand! It has honest answers to the difficult questions that women facing an unplanned pregnancy may have. The author provides women thinking about adoption with the resources to make an informed decision. I would definitely recommend it to a friend considering her pregnancy choices!

This book is a beautifully crafted guide for women with an unwanted or unplanned pregnancy who wants to consider adoption... and I do mean CONSIDER. This book doesn't push or even guilt anyone into choosing adoption, but rather gives the facts and encourages women to make their own choice.

Adoption is defintiely a choice, and should be more included when we are discussing pro-life or pro-choice approaches. Adoption is a beautiful third option that lets a woman who is abortion minded choose life for her child but not have to be a mom at this time. So truly, the best of both choices.

This book is a wonderful guide and I hope that it receives the wide distribution it deserves.

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As an adoptive mother myself, I saw this book this afternoon at the local Christian bookstore and was appalled. The information is very one-sided.....towards adoption. Unless I missed it, I didn't see any resources listed to help a younger woman parent their child. I would hope parents of younger women would step up and offer support to help their daughters parent. Not everything is about giving a child a "better material life".

Respectfully,
Dannie

If you are pregnant and reading this book, please be very aware that it is written by an adoptive mom who also is involved with an adoption agency who makes her living off of convincing frightened, pregnant women to surrender their children to adoption for the paying hopeful couple who wants a baby to call their own.

This book is VERY one sided. It says nothing of the risks, such as the grief, pain and loss adoption has caused for so many. It talks nothing about adoptee issues (please also read the book Primal Wound by Nancy Verrier) and continues to say the pregnant woman has a choice in open adoption without once mentioning that open adoption is NOT legally enforced and aparents can close the adoption at any time with no explanation.

Please learn BOTH sides of adoption. Learn about the pain, the risks, the darker side that coercive, manipuluative writings such as this NEVER share! Read from those who have been there and gone through it. Not from those who have only benefitted from it by getting a child or earning their paycheck.