Adopting Alyosha: A Single Man Finds a Son in Russia
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| Rating | : | 4.85 (936 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1578061199 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 165 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-03-08 |
| Language | : | English |
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Although single women have long been permitted to adopt children, adoption by unmarried men remains an uncommon experience in Western culture. During the three years that it took for him to proceed through the adoption maze, Klose met resistance and dead ends at every attempt. In the end he comes face to face with a little boy who changes his life forever.. Instead, his difficulties are only beginning. When he arrives in Russia, he supposes the adoption will be a matter of following cut-and-dried procedures. Happenstance finally led him to Russia, where he found the child of his dreams in a Moscow orphanage, a Russian boy named Alyosha. The narrative of his quest serves as an instructional firsthand manual for single men wishing to adopt. It details the prospective father's heightening sense of anticipation as he
The best narrative of the adoption journey Elizabeth S. Case Every one of us who has adopted internationally knows our experiences would make a good book (particularly ours, but let's not go into that here). Robert Klose actually sat down and wrote it.I would really recommend reading this at the outset of your adoption wait. You may think it's discouraging, but at the end you'll realize he didn't tell you anything you didn't need to know. If you have done this, you'll be nodding in recognition.Klose. Persistence wins the prize As usual, Robert Klose writes with feeling, with honesty, with humor. His lengthy ordeal in navigating the often treacherous currents of the international adoption underworld holds many lessons. Adoption isn't for the faint of heart. Although his experiences dealing with agencies, agents, and "free-lancers" were not always positive, Klose managed to stay sane and focused on his goal, and retained his good sense and laconic humor through nu. "Painstakingly slow" according to Diane Hooie. This book is a slow as the adoption process. Not a particularly good book to read if you are more interested in the adaption after adoption, since it stops at adoption.
The title gives away the happy ending, which somewhat deflates the suspense that builds as Klose, a columnist for the Christian Science Monitor and a biology professor in Orono, Maine, runs into one blind alley after another in his search for "Pablo," the Latin-American boy he believes is waiting for him. From Publishers Weekly Given the number of children languishing in orphanages overseas and the number of Americans clamoring to adopt, one would think that it would be a relatively quick and straightforward process to bring them together. Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc. Not so, particularly if the prospective parent is an unmarried man. A combination journal, travelogue and, above all, love story, this is a wonderful read, even for those uninvo