The Open Adoption: A Birth Father's Journey

by Darrick C. Rizzo

Overview

Darrick C. Rizzo lives his life inspired by his son that he put up for adoption when he was a freshman in college. Basketball, cross country and track athlete willing to give it all up to raise his first born, but all of a sudden, after 5 months of an unplanned pregnancy, his girlfriend brings up the words...Open Adoption...

The Open Adoption (A Birth Father's Journey) is highly recommended to all that are involved in any capacity of an adoption, especially the adoptive parents. Dedication, motivation, perseverance and faith in God have led him to share his experience as a birth father and and the broken promises to both him and his son. This heartwarming true story of faith and forgiveness is a true testament of human kind.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940150459717
Publisher:	Cam Media LLC
Publication date:	09/18/2014
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	NOOK Book
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

One of the first birth fathers to speak out about adoption, Darrick blogs at two national adoption agencies. Thousands of adoptive parents, birth parents and adoptees are reading these blogs and finding inspiration and answers to their questions. Darrick is excited to share his insights and experience with open adoption and to show the birth father's perspective in the adoption triad. As a successful businessman, father, mentor and community leader, Darrick pays it forward by speaking out and motivating others. With Rizzo Productions, he facilitates new connections between parents, high school athletes and college coaches making sure the athletes put their best foot forward with video portfolios.

Editorial Reviews

Mr. Rizzo�s narrative is riveting. His story is poignant, heartbreaking, and ultimately deeply inspiring. This is a story of a love so deep that it could overcome any difficulty. Mr. Rizzo shows that adoptive parents should not fear birthfathers, but embrace them as a vital, and important, part of an open adoption.

Independent Adoption Center (IAC) - Ann Wrixon

Darrick delivers his story with passion and purpose.��His mission is to put an actual face on a birthparent and more specifically a birthfather, which so often is just a vague entity to an adoptive parent.�As his story is told, an adoptive parent realizes that their adoption will include a birthfather who has feelings and a life long connection to the child they hope to adopt.�An adoptive parent cannot escape the fact that their child�s life did not begin the day of their placement in their home

Lutheran Social Ministries of New Jersey - MaryAnn Sager