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ADOPTION: The Emotional and Financial Challenges and How It All Came Together

$9.99


I’ve poured my own journey into every section, offering you a deeply personal and genuine perspective that can light the way on your own adoption path, helping you navigate with confidence & hope.

In this e-Book I share:

  • My story & the reason we weren't able to have children

  • My own personal experiences on the journey to becoming a mom

  • The emotional and financial challenges that I faced

  • How I raised money through my artwork

  • The role my faith played in the whole process

  • The cost of adoption

  • Managing your costs

  • Agency vs Private vs Other

  • Foreign vs Domestic adoption

  • Basic Requirements

  • How we marketed ourselves & got creative to fund our adoption

  • Getting your paperwork in order

  • The Importance of speaking to adoptive parents

  • What will your child look like?

  • When you get the life-changing call

  • Open vs closed adoption & what we chose.

  • The home study

  • Travel

  • Tips & encouragement

  • Adoption checklist (the same one we used)


About Jen Ramos

Jen Ramos is an Arlington, Virginia based artist, graphic designer, and entrepreneur who has painted bright & bold artwork for over 11 years. Her works evoke a range of emotions, underscored by feelings of happiness, joy, hope & sometimes a little chaos. She’s always felt her art was like a symbolic language in which she conveys her feelings.  Simplicity, elegance, luxury, and harmony define her aesthetic.