Anne Moody has been the co-director of an agency specializing in infant adoption for the past 24 years. She is the author of The Children Money CaBuy: Stories from the Frontlines of Foster Care and Adoption, published in 2018 by Rowman and Littlefield. She is also an adoptive parent and both her professional and personal background inform her work as an adoption specialist who advises clients on all aspects of the adoption experience. Anne is a contributor to Adoptive Families Magazine, Chicagonow.com's Portrait of an Adoption Series, Adoption.com's Adoption Summit, and PairTreeFamily.com.

Glossary

Introduction

1. The Vagaries Of The Market Place
2. Owen and Kira: An Adoptive Family Story
3. Why Is Adoption So Hard?
4. Lindy: A Birth Mother's Story
5. Where Does All the Money Go?
6. Yes, It's Legal
7. Middle Men
8. Julia: A Single Adoptive Mother's Story
9. Birth Mothers In The Media
10. Did Birth Mother's Change?
11. What Will We Tell the Children?
12. What About The Siblings?
13. Matt and Hannah: A Foster-To-Adopt Story
14. What About All the Kids In Foster Care?
15. Working With The Child Welfare System
16. Not To Scare You...But
17. Adoption Specialists
18. Adoption Reform
19. Closing the Gray Market

Afterword