What to Know When You Adopt Through Foster Care Real Life Stories and Practical Tips

There are over 45 topics in this book to help you with deciding and applying to go this route, getting through the training, home study, legal, and matching processes, and to equip you with practical insights for the parenting journey.

Inside you'll learn:
- what foster care adoption is and which children can be adopted
- why some families waited and how some pursued this path after facing infertility
- how some had to be persistent and how they endured the process
- tips for parenting children who have experienced neglect, trauma, alcohol exposure
- tips for parenting children who have mental health or medical needs
and more!
Plus, you'll have quick access to tools like The Forgotten Adoption Option App and Podcast to build your toolbox as you read.
The stories are anonymous to honor the families involved, but they are real. Some are my own and the rest are from people I personally know.

Scaling her lived experience as an adoptive mom of a sibling pair, Marcy Bursac advocates for the thousands of children in the U.S. foster care system that are waiting to be adopted through her free app, children's book, how-to book, monthly podcast, speaking engagements, and TV, radio, magazine, podcast appearances.

Marcy is a Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute Angels in Adoption® Honoree from Missouri with Senator Blunt, she reigned as United States of America's Mrs. Ohio 2022, and she is the founder of the Foster Care Adoption Awareness Reading Program.