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Enquiries concerning reproduction outside those terms  \nshould be sent to the publishers.  \nTroubador Publishing Ltd  \nUnit E2 Airfield Business Park  \nHarrison Road, Market Harborough  \nLeicestershire LE16 7UL  \nTel: 0116 279 2299  \n[Email:](Email: books@troubador.co.uk)[ ](Email: books@troubador.co.uk)[books@troubador.co.uk](Email: books@troubador.co.uk)  \n[Web:](Web: www.troubador.co.uk)[ ](Web: www.troubador.co.uk)[www.troubador.co.uk](Web: www.troubador.co.uk)  \n[ISBN 978-1-80634-790-2](ISBN 978-1-80634-790-2)  \nBritish Library Cataloguing in Publication Data.  \nA catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.  \nThe manufacturer ’s authorised representative in the EU for product safety is Authorised Rep Compliance Ltd, 71 Lower Baggot Street, Dublin D02 P593 Ireland ([www.arccompliance.com](www.arccompliance.com)).  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nFor our son  \nand for all the adopters, at their own point on this long and winding path.  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nAuthors’note  \nThis story is based on real events, however names and locations have been changed to protect the identity of those involved.  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nContents  \nAuthors’ note  \nIntroduction: What this book is about  \nPrologue: What do I do now?  \nPART 1  \nGETTING THERE: APPLICATION AND APPROVAL TO ADOPT  \n1 The path to parenthood: we thought it would just happen  \n2  Getting started with adoption  \n3  Stage 1 and the endless paperwork  \n4  Meeting people like us: Prep Group  \n5  Getting to Stage 2  \n6  Stage 2: background and parenting  \n7  Stage 2: the interviews and questions  \n8  New year and new timescale 8¾  Celebrating – we’re approved!  \n9  Parenting skills  \nPART 2  \nSEARCHING FOR OUR SON: HOW DO YOU FIND A CHILD TO ADOPT?  \n10  How to find a child  \n11 The search for our child  \n11¾  Some stories don’t have a happy ending  \n12 The search goes on  \n13  How we found our son  \nPART 3  \nWHAT HAPPENS NEXT: BECOMING PARENTS  \n14  Meeting Marcus  \n15 The next three months  \n16  Finally – introductions in London  \n17  Our boy arrives at our place  \n18  Marcus moves in  \n19  First weeks of fatherhood  \n20  Parenting in the outside world  \n21  First friends  \n22  More paperwork and a birthday 22¾ The court hearing  \n23  Six months as a family  \n24  Court date number one  \n25  School and work  \n26  Court date number two  \n27 A year of parenting  \n28  Court date number three – finally adopted!  \n29 What came next  \n30  Our boy goes to school  \nEpilogue: Looking to the future  \nAcknowledgements  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nIntroduction  \nWHAT THIS BOOK ISABOUT  \nThis is the story of how we became parents, finally, by adopting our son.  \nThere are lots of great stories like this out there, and my wife Eve and I read a lot of them in the years leading up to becoming parents. However, when I read them, I missed hearing a dad’s perspective and voice.  \nThe classic format is a ‘mum-moir’: the tale of how a mum tried, failed and finally triumphed to become a parent, with her partner making special guest appearances at key moments of the adoption narrative, yet never becoming a fully fleshed-out major character in his own right, with an equal number of lines to say.  \nAs a prospective father, I wanted to hear what the husbands and wannabe dads were doing and feeling during this journey: first-hand, in a bit of depth and not just as an inclusion in the ","cbCaiccL0YC2czjq","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiccL0YC2czjq","pdf",1567719,157,"English","# Authors’ note\n# Introduction: What this book is about\n# Prologue: What do I do now?\n# PART 1 - Getting there: application and approval to adopt\n## Stage 1 and the endless paperwork\n## Stage 2: background and parenting\n# PART 2 - Searching for our son: how do you find a child to adopt?\n## How we found our son\n## Some stories don’t have a happy ending\n# PART 3 - What happens next: becoming parents\n## Meeting Marcus\n## Finally adopted!","[{\"question\":\"What is the book about, and whose perspective does it focus on?\",\"answer\":\"It is about how Rob and Eve Lucas became parents through adopting their son. 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