What to Expect When You're Adopting...

Oct 5, 2024 9:24 PM

Author:Dr Ian Palmer

As would-be parents cycle through the adoption process, they balance anxiety and fear with the life-altering decision of adoption. The emotional toll of this dance can be completely overwhelming and can confuse parents while navigating the decisions of how to expand their families.

Drawing on extensive research and the author's own experience of being adopted, What to Expect When You're Adopting... does not gloss over the realities of the adoption process, but rather leads parents through the many stages and emotional aspects involved and offer practical and sensitive advice allowing you to:

- Make crucial decisions with confidence

- Build a strong foundation for your family

- Separate the myths about adopted children from the realities

- Discover the key to healthy attachment with your child

Dr Ian Palmer will also deal with the issues of single-parent adoption, infertility and, unusually, the option of remaining childless.

Reviews

A clear and encouraging guide to adoption, full of understanding and warmth - like having someone hold your hand right through a challenging, and hopefully rewarding, process

—— Kate Adie

a helpful introduction to the adoption process

—— Jonathan Pearce, Director, Adoption UK

An honest account designed to give mums a boost.

—— Good Housekeeping

Each chapter is a self-contained pleasure to read, like mini-fables on the perils of medicine

—— Sunday Times

Burch approaches his task with vigour and pace, exploring the therapeutic failures of doctors over the ages...there is much of interest as the story unfolds

—— Irish Times

Burch leads us through an array of shocking and surprising medical practices

—— Financial Times

Intriguing and informed

—— Tom Whipple , The Times

Twenty-five essay-chapters examine 'cures' such as aspirin and thalidomide, all with a good bedside manner

—— Sunday Telegraph

This is a gripping history of the blundering progress of medicine

—— Christopher Hirst , Independent

A fascinating and irreverent history of medicine and those who've claimed to understand it, written by an NHS doctor with searing intelligence and a lively wit

—— Good Book Guide

A fascinating book

—— Word Magazine

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