Adopt International: Everything You Need to Know to Adopt a Child from Abroad

By O. Robin Sweet and Patty Bryan

A comprehensive guide, Adopt International provides step-by-step advice on everything from selecting an adoption agency to traveling abroad to pick up your child to adjusting to a new life at home. The book walks you through the myriad government regulations and complicated forms (both American and foreign) as well as the financial issues involved. Finally, it includes the stories of people who have successfully adopted one or more children from across the world.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374524688
• ISBN13: 9780374524685
• Release Date: April 1996
• Publisher: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

It helped me

This was the first book I read when I was looking into international adoption. Having completed the process (twice now) I found it to be the best. Gives a good summary of the process and the magnitude of what you are getting into. One thing I would strongly caution readers on is that the book was published in 1996 and things change very rapidly in many countries. It is a guide, not an up to date reference. However, it gives you good ammunition to go to your first adoption meeting with.

very helpful

A nice book worth reading.

I have read the book

The first critic is not entirely correct. Depending on the country you adopt from and changes in the law made since the book was published the author is generally correct. There have been some changes since then. However, a person or couple should check with several agencies before they continue. They best thing to remember is keep trying. If you are not a fit for one country's adoption standards you can try another. Plus the agency generally knows the correct procedures and rules governing adoption. If the first critic thinks that anyone can adopt that person is deluded. Many factors come into play durring the course of adoption. But these are obstacles to overcome, not impasses.