Expanding your family via adoption is a huge choice and step in your life, therefore it's crucial that you go about it eyes wide open so as to make the experience good instead of a bad one.

This book will lead you through the whole process and discuss with you many things to know about before going on the adoption process. It will also acquaint you with the procedure so that there won't be any surprises along the road.

Here is a preview of what you'll learn...

• Applying for adoption
• The cost of adoption
• Completing the adoption home study
• Preparing to welcome the child home
• Receiving your adoptive placement
• Being the legal adoptive parent
• Much, much more!

Adoption is anytime that a person who is not the biological parent of a child becomes the legal caretaker of them through the adoption process. There are many reasons that people turn to adoption, a lot of children in adoptive situations come from a broken home. This may mean the parents were too young to raise them, abusive, addicts, or many other reasons. Some children are placed in adoption when their families are too large to provide proper care for another child.