{"id":998,"date":"2011-01-05T15:59:30","date_gmt":"2011-01-05T23:59:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/katherinemalmo.com\/blog\/?p=998"},"modified":"2011-02-01T10:13:27","modified_gmt":"2011-02-01T18:13:27","slug":"how-to-adopt-a-baby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.katherinemalmo.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/05\/how-to-adopt-a-baby\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Adopt a Baby"},"content":{"rendered":"

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1.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Talk to friends and friends of friends about their experiences.<\/p>\n

2.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Try not to get lost driving around foreign neighborhoods looking for a community center that will host the Journeys of the Love, Hope, Heart, Blessed-Child\u2019s Dream of the Christ\u2019s Open Adoption agency meeting.<\/p>\n

3.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Ask the social workers what programs\/countries will let you adopt if you are single, over 40, in a same-sex relationship, and\/or a cancer survivor.<\/p>\n

4.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Choose the agency that can answer your question.<\/p>\n

5.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Get fingerprinted, background checked, dig up the value of your house, find pay stubs, photocopy bank statements, get friends to write references, find your dog\u2019s vaccination records, have the pet store where you purchased your fish sign an affidavit of its health, make a list of every illness you\u2019ve ever had, dig up the name of your third grade teacher who could verify that indeed your favorite color was lavender, make a list of your stuffed animals and their names and how well you took care of each and every one of them, and promise, that if they could talk, they would guarantee that, if given the opportunity, you\u2019d be the bestest mother ever. Click here to read the rest…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

1.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Talk to friends and friends of friends about their experiences. 2.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Try not to get lost driving around foreign neighborhoods looking for a community center that will host the Journeys of the Love, Hope, Heart, Blessed-Child\u2019s Dream of the Christ\u2019s Open Adoption agency meeting. 3.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Ask the social workers what programs\/countries will let you […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3,12,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adoption","category-mom","category-parenting","category-popular"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.katherinemalmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.katherinemalmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.katherinemalmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.katherinemalmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.katherinemalmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=998"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.katherinemalmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1020,"href":"https:\/\/www.katherinemalmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998\/revisions\/1020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.katherinemalmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.katherinemalmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.katherinemalmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}