cover image Adopt the Baby You Want

Adopt the Baby You Want

Michael R. Sullivan. Simon & Schuster, $18.45 (272pp) ISBN 978-0-671-65761-1

Timely and comprehensive, this step-by-step guide for prospective adoptive parents, written with freelancer Shultz, distills the experience and expertise of Sullivan, an adoption lawyer who is also a cofounder of several full-service adoption agencies. A variety of options, such as independent adoption and adoption of foreign children, are explored in light of the increasing complexity in adoption practices as well as the reality that there are ``fewer healthy babies available than ever before.'' It is a search, often lengthy, expensive and frustrating, of paramount importance to the more than two million Americans eager to adopt. The wealth of information in this upbeat primer includes self-assessments, state directories and advice regarding recent developments in adoptees' rights. (Aug.)