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Secrets to Your Successful Domestic
Adoption - Insider Advice to Create Your
Forever Family Faster
Deerfield Beach, FL, October 31, 2010 - 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
resource.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Jennifer Joyce Pedley, MJ, is a birth mother
and social worker who has been helping
people build their families through adoption
since 1995. It was her own personal
experience of placing her son in an open
adoption, following his birth in 1990, which
prompted her to become a social worker and
make the field of adoption her primary
professional focus.
Pedley is a founding board member of the On
Your Feet Foundation; the first of its kind,
a not-for-profit organization established in
2001 to provide ongoing support to birth
parents after making an adoption plan for
their child. Support is in the form of both
monetary scholarships as well as in the
establishment of a formal support network
for women who previously would have kept
their adoption choice a secret. In 2003 she
established and began co-facilitating
therapeutic weekend retreats for birth
mothers. Today, On Your Feet For Life
retreats continue to be held biannually and,
to date, have engaged hundreds of birth
mothers from all over the
United States.
Pedley lives in Michigan with her husband
and two young sons. She continues to
maintain close ties to her birth son as well
as with his adoptive family.
Available online and at bookstores or to
order directly from the publisher, contact:
www.hcibooks.com or (800) 441-5569.
SECRETS TO YOUR
SUCCESSFUL DOMESTIC ADOPTION:
Insider Advice to Create Your Forever Family
Faster
Jennifer Joyce Pedley
ISBN-10: 0757314686
ISBN-13: 9780757314681
$15.95 U.S.
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