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Anne Moody's insightful book captures the dynamic world of adoption. From her vantage point as a social worker and an adoptive mom, she provides compelling behind the scenes anecdotes that span state, international and domestic adoption. It's a great read for anyone exploring adoption. -- Shari Levine, Executive Director, Open Adoption and Family Services Anne Moody's writing helps open wide the heart. A perfectly arranged mixture of memoir and analysis, The Children Money Can Buy looks back over the author's long career of helping people navigate the shifting and confusing landscape of foster care and adoption, and helps the reader draw valuable lessons from her experience. Her stories are moving, instructive, and unforgettable, told in a voice that fills the reader with respect and trust. -- Rebecca Wells, author of <i>Divine Secrets of the YaYa Sisterhood<i> With the tenderness of memoir and the reach of great nonfiction, Anne Moody's The Children Money Can Buy examines the modern history of adoption from every angle. Moody draws on her own experiences to give us a book that is not just exhaustively researched, but personally lived. The result is deeply informative, yes, but also an intimate glimpse inside the adoption experience. -- Claire Dederer, author of <i>Poser: My Life in Twenty-Three Yoga Poses<i> I've read a lot of books on adoption and the foster care system, but none by an author with the breadth and depth of experience Anne has...she presents a fair and well-considered view of the matters at hand, and her persona on the page is inviting and winning. Anne's work sheds new light on an important topic we rarely hear about. What Anne has to say stands a good chance to make this world a better place. -- David Gutterson, author of <i> Snow Falling on Cedars<i>

Anne Moody's insightful book captures the dynamic world of adoption. From her vantage point as a social worker and an adoptive mom, she provides compelling behind the scenes anecdotes that span state, international and domestic adoption. It's a great read for anyone exploring adoption. -- Shari Levine, Executive Director, Open Adoption and Family Services Anne Moody's writing helps open wide the heart. A perfectly arranged mixture of memoir and analysis, The Children Money Can Buy looks back over the author's long career of helping people navigate the shifting and confusing landscape of foster care and adoption, and helps the reader draw valuable lessons from her experience. Her stories are moving, instructive, and unforgettable, told in a voice that fills the reader with respect and trust. -- Rebecca Wells, author of <i>Divine Secrets of the YaYa Sisterhood<i> With the tenderness of memoir and the reach of great nonfiction, Anne Moody's The Children Money Can Buy examines the modern history of adoption from every angle. Moody draws on her own experiences to give us a book that is not just exhaustively researched, but personally lived. The result is deeply informative, yes, but also an intimate glimpse inside the adoption experience. -- Claire Dederer, author of <i>Poser: My Life in Twenty-Three Yoga Poses<i> I've read a lot of books on adoption and the foster care system, but none by an author with the breadth and depth of experience Anne has...she presents a fair and well-considered view of the matters at hand, and her persona on the page is inviting and winning. Anne's work sheds new light on an important topic we rarely hear about. What Anne has to say stands a good chance to make this world a better place. -- David Guterson, author of <i> Snow Falling on Cedars<i>

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Anne Moody has enjoyed a long career in child welfare work and adoption counseling. Since the early 1980s, she has worked to improve upon the infant adoption process for both birth and adoptive parents. Anne is the Director of Adoption Connections in Bainbridge Island, Washington, and is also an adoptive parent.

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