Workbook
The Adoption Readiness Workbook
The Honest Review Nobody Gives You
Adoption readiness is honesty about who you are and what you can hold.
For the prospective adoptive parent who wants an honest assessment of their actual readiness before they commit.
The Name It First Experience
Adoption is significant — for everyone involved. Too many prospective parents begin the process carrying unexamined assumptions, unresolved grief, or expectations that have not been tested against reality. This workbook asks the questions adoption agencies will not: What are your limits? What are you bringing into this that has not been addressed? What happens when adoption does not match what you imagined? The Adoption Readiness Agreement you produce here becomes the honest document that anchors your decision-making through paperwork, court dates, and integration. The output is not an agency approval. It is your signed assessment of what you are ready for.
You can opt into 30-, 60-, and 90-day check-ins from your account. We recommend you do — the point is to see what changed.
Sample questions
- What assumption are you carrying about what adoption will look like — and have you tested that assumption against people who have actually done it?
- What is the limit you have not said out loud yet — the scenario that, if it happened, would be at the edge of what you could hold?
- What would The Adoption Readiness Agreement say that you know to be true about your readiness — the honest version, not the version for the home study?
Research basis
Attachment theory (Bowlby, Ainsworth, Brown), adoption competency frameworks (Baden, Rueter), post-adoption depression and disruption research (Barth, Berry), family systems theory (Bowen), intergenerational trauma transmission, cultural competency in transracial adoption (Carney, Caughey), anticipatory grief literature, trauma-informed care (SAMHSA, van der Kolk)
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Every question. Every scenario, every angle.
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