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

By Rich Mintzer

Book Overview

As co-president of the New York City chapter of the nation's largest adoption support group, co-editor for an adoption newsletter, and former host of a weekly adoption-related radio program, Richard Mintzer is an expert in the process of adoption. This comprehensive and reassuring book combines Mintzer's own expertise with anecdotal advice from adoptive parents to help anyone who is considering adoption to make well-informed decisions. It also discusses how to best evaluate adoption agencies and attorneys, and goes through the home study process and the finances needed to make adoption work. Mintzer provides essential information and takes readers through the questions potential parents face when choosing to adopt, including: choosing between a domestic or international adoption, choosing a newborn or an older child, and working with an agency or adopting through independent placement. Many key questions are answered: For which families is open adoption the right choice? Where cana child be adopted by gay parents? What costs and fees are associated with adoption? How can adoption fraud be avoided? How will adoption affect a family's finances? These questions and many others are answered with the credible information every potential parent needs when approaching this challenging process.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0786710357
• ISBN13: 9780786710355
• Release Date: December 2002
• Publisher: Da Capo Lifelong Books
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

a look into the experience

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.

very helpful

I got this book because my wife and I are considering adopting a waiting child, and found it to be very informative, easy to read, and generally helpful. As an introduction to adoption, it was very good, covering a wide range of topics like different kinds of adoption and issues related to how adoptees grow up and so forth. I only give it four stars because it is a little brief, and could go into more detail on some of the topics, but it's still a very good, helpful book.

This is a wonderful book for first time adoptive parents!!!

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!!