WHAT I WISH I’D KNOWN BEFORE ADOPTING MY SON
LESSON ONE
Opening up your life is genuinely therapeutic
A big part of the stage-one adoption process, which lasts around six months and takes you from that first phone call to the adoption panel, requires you to talk about your life. That means opening up to social workers about your childhood, past relationships, finances, emotional strengths and weaknesses, and fears. Everything and anything that helps them see if you could have a successful adoption.
It sounds invasive. But I’d been through five years
