Secrets to Your Successful Domestic Adoption – Insider Advice to Create Your Forever Family Faster

– A social worker, birth mom, and adoption advocate, Jennifer Joyce Pedley

shares her proven strategies and unique insights for finding the perfect

adoption match.  This is a must-have guide for a faster, successful open

domestic adoption; oftentimes without the red tape and wait times of a

traditional agency.

Adoptive parents are the ying to the

birthparents’ yang; so different, but yet without the other, neither

are complete. This is the pull that author Pedley, a birth mother and licensed

social worker, understands so well. Based on both years of experience in the

field of adoption, as well as a birth mother in a successful open adoption with

her now adult son, Jennifer Joyce Pedley shares practical, comprehensive, and

legally sound advice for taking charge of your adoption process in her book,

Secrets To Your Successful Domestic Adoption: Insider Advice to Create Your

Forever Family Faster (HCI Books — $15.95).

Pedley takes the reader by the hand and demystifies the

domestic adoption process, explaining exactly why it can be preferable to

connect with an expectant mother directly rather than using the facilitation of

a traditional agency.

Potential families will find:

* How to bridge the digital divide and avoid the

pitfalls of the Internet
*  Do’s and don’ts of the latest methods available,

including classified advertising, written profile, and even video to

thoughtfully market your family
*  Critical information about the home study

process
*  Help in identifying red flags commonly associated with an

expectant mom’s decision to parent.
*  Ideas for incorporating adoption

especially the topic of birth parents, into everyday life in ways that are

practical, creative, and child-centered.

In

addition, Secrets To Your Successful Domestic Adoption carefully

examines many of the legal considerations of domestic adoption including

clarification of types of agencies, the roles played by facilitators and

attorneys, plus essential information on Interstate Adoption.  With warmth,

experience, and passion, Pedley is a wise advocate and mentor in this must-have