Text in Spanish. Illuminating and important, this guide for future adoptive parents and adoption professionals answers questions on a number of topics regarding the adoption process and an adopted child's assimilation into a new home, including What influence do pre- and postnatal factors have, such as malnutrition or alcoholism? Does depression exist after adoption? Are we a family with an ethnic member or a multiethnic family? and What do our children think about adoption? This practical reference also includes a section for reflection.