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

By Susan Burns

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312307012
• ISBN13: 9780312307011
• Release Date: December 2003
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press
• Length: 268 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

Best Adoption Book

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!

One of the best adoption books I've read

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.

Fast Track Will Put Us On Track

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.

The importance of ethics

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.

This is the best adoption book

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.