The Choice Mom's Guide to Adoption

This 100-page guidebook includes many personal stories from single women who are parents through open, transracial or foster care adoption. It includes experts writing about parenting over 40, how to navigate the emotions of the adoption process, what to be aware of medically before accepting a placement. There are synopses of the international programs that accept single applicants, insight to better understand racial biases, and stories from adult adoptees.

You'll learn from Choice Moms, adult adoptees and industry experts about the myths and realities of:

building transracial families,
negotiating open relationships with birth parents,
the cost and accessibility of adoption to single women,
bonding with your adopted child,
parenting over 40,
foster care options,
dealing with the emotions of the adoption process,
picking an adoption agency,
programs that welcome single applicants.

Thanks to Our Contributors

Special thanks to the busy adoptive mothers and experts who gave us their time and insight, as well as to the sponsors who help Choice Moms LLC make it possible to bring educational and community-building resources to single women who are proactively contemplating, researching and pursing motherhood on their own.

The Choice Moms Guide to Adoption was largely produced with the help of adoption outreach coordinator and emotional health coach Vera Snow, and open adoption advocate Shelly Damm - who want to thank their kids for giving them the passion to help other women build their families in their own ways.

Please support Children's Home Society & Family Services. CHSFS helps Plan a positive course of action for the life of a child. Strengthen family bonds through counseling and education. Unite children with loving families, and each adoptee with a sense of his or her culture and history. And enables you to Give to children and their families through volunteering and donation. Click here to learn how.

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