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Yes, You Can Adopt!: A Comprehensive Guide for Parents

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Richard Mintzer has written a book that will help
perspective adoptive parents navigate the complexities and nerves surrounding the adoption process. He covers both domestic & international adoption, the home study process, precautions that should be taken, how to evaluate an agency, and even the emotional issues that some couples face when deciding to form their family through adoption. He writes with compassion and sincerity, and he writes from his own experience!!

I read great reviews on this book, that's what aided in my decision to buy it. I felt that the book had lots of great info., but it was focused on adopting newborns.

While other books may have more statistics, this book is wonderful for getting an intro to the experience of considering adoption. Throughout the book are listed several online resources in particular that can give you any black and white information you feel you need, additionally. This is especially helpful, since that type of information has changed since the book was published. But, as someone trying to get an idea of what I am embarking on, this book was great. Very inclusive of different situations and possibilities. Recommended.

Richard Mintzer, Yes, You Can Adopt Carroll and Graf, 2003)

Another book that wants to be a one-stop shop for everything adoption-related. Which isn't necessarily a bad thing, but it's been done, and better (Falker's The Ultimate Insider's Guide to Adoption still ranks as the top of the heap). Mintzer's strength here is in including a good number of snippets of interviews with families, giving a personal face to the experiences he talks about in the book. Once again, as with most adoption books, only half of this will apply to you, depending on whether you're doing domestic or international adoption, so you might want to give this one a look-over at the library before shelling out the dough. ***

I really can't say too much about this book I have not started to read it yet.