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Author:

Kasky, Robert A., author.

Title:

ABA consumer guide to adopting a child : everything you need to know for a successful adoption / Robert A. Kasky and Jeffrey A. Kasky.

Publisher:

American Bar Association,

Copyright Date:

2015

Description:

xiii, 107 pages ; 26 cm.

Subject:

Adoption--Law and legislation--United States--Popular works.
Adoptive parents--United States--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Other Authors:

Kasky, Jeffrey A., author.

Notes:

Includes index.

Contents:

Adoption basics -- Parties to an adoption -- Who may adopt? -- "Open" and "closed" adoptions -- Services provided by adoption agencies and attorneys to adoptive parents -- Working with an adoption agency -- Services provided to birth parents by agencies -- The risks of adoption -- The home study -- Matching families with the birth parent(s) -- The waiting period -- The birth of the child -- Securing the consent to adopt from birth parent(s) -- After delivery and consent but before the birth mother is discharged from the hospital -- Discharge of baby from hospital -- Finalizing the adoption.

ISBN:

1634250230 (softcover : alk. paper)
9781634250238 (softcover : alk. paper)

LCCN:

2015043391

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KJPF566 -- Fort Madison Public Library (Fort Madison)

SCPC074 -- Hudson Public Library (Hudson)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

YEPF572 -- Marion Public Library (Marion)

LAPH975 -- Sioux City Public Library (Sioux City)