Welcome Home!

<p>Examine the pros and cons of nontraditional adoption! <br><br> Welcome Home! An International and Nontraditional Adoption Reader is an essential guide to the process pros and cons of adopting children from outside the United States with special needs and/or from a different racial/cultural background. The book documents every aspect of the adoption procedurefrom working with facilitators adoption agencies and attorneys to mixed reactions over a child’s possible loss of heritage as the result of a transracial or multicultural adoption. Parents and adoptees offer unique firsthand perspectives on the cautions and benefits of nontraditional adoption. <br><br> Americans adopted more than 20000 children from other countries in 2001 a number that reflects humanitarian motives the desire to adopt a child from a specific country and/or frustration with the domestic adoption system. Including a foreword by United States Representative Ted Strickland Welcome Home! is a practical resource for anyone thinking of establishing a family or adding to their own. The book provides insight into the adoption process open adoption biracial adoption adopting a special needs child cultural attitudes and how to handle an adopted child’s questions in later years. It also addresses specific adoption issues including: how to verify an agency’s credentials; how an agency negotiates with the birth mother; state and country laws and practices; tax benefits; and expenses including legal and medical costs; and includes research findings on the Northeast-Northwest Collaborative Adoption Projects (N2CAP) <br><br> Welcome Home! tells the stories of:</p><ul> <li> Naomi and Fred an intermarried couple (she’s Jewish he’s not) who adopted a Greek baby in 1962 </li> <li> Tina and Lee a lesbian couple who adopted a baby from China </li> <li> Marianne a professor of child and adolescent psychiatry at the University of Lund in Sweden who adopted babies from Iran and Thailandseveral years after her divorce </li> <li> Pamela a divorced mother of four biological children who has adopted babies from Viet Nam and China </li> <li> All of her biological children </li> <li> MildredPamela’s mother and the children’s grandmother </li> <li> Karen adoptive mother and national chairperson for Families for Russian and Ukrainian adoption (FRUA) </li> <li> William adoptive father of miracle sisters from Romania </li> <li> and many more! </li> </ul><p>Welcome Home! is an invaluable source of unusual insight for psychologists psychiatrists marriage and family therapists adoption agencies counselors social workers attorneys physicians academics and of course anyone considering adoption.</p>