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Inside Tips! Called “The bible” on the subject, and “The matrix” by others, this book never grows old but grows in value as more adoptive parents find adoption sources on their own, especially in countries not among the seventy who signed the Hague Convention. This self-help book is organized around 23 easy-to-follow steps, and includes detailed coverage of every aspect of the process, including organizing a home study and fulfilling state requirements, as well as choosing a country to adopt from in Africa, Asia, Europe, and Latin America, and Oceania. The general international adoption process with slight variations, includes working through immigration, and traveling abroad to meet your child. Includes websites for current updates.

The easy-to-follow steps of the international adoption process makes this book very user-friendly. Covered are the adoption laws of dozens of child-placing countries along with samples of required documents and the approximate costs of adoption, the health concerns of Third World orphans and web sites of foreign embassies, as well as parent support groups. The book has been revised and updated in a 2003 edition, still, the prospective adoptive parents must remember that some of the information changes from one year to the next.

ISBN 0-940352-15-X

Mesa House Publishing, Soft cover, 286 pages, photos, appendix, bibliography, 2003. $22.50

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