Adoption in the United States

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The best advice that I can offer about starting off on the adoption process is to keep positive and to know that it's going to be a process. It's probably not just going to happen overnight. Keep marketing yourself. Use social media, Facebook, Twitter and personalized website. Spread the word through families and family friends that you are looking for a birth mother. Help educate people if it's an open adoption, what open adoption means. The best advice I can give is to just wait, your baby will find you. Never lose hope.

Video Categories: ALL PARENTS, Family Life, Gay and Lesbian Parents, ADOPTION, Types of Adoption, Open Adoption

Scout Masterson, an Adoptive Dad, shares advice for people starting the adoption process on how to remain positive and on tools to spread the word and market yourself

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Scout Masterson

Adoptive Dad

Scout graduated from Penn State University in 1996. He then went on to exchange vows with his longtime partner, Bill Horn, on May 23, 2009. Scout's longtime friend Tori Spelling became an ordained minister to officiate his commitment ceremony to Bill Horn. Scout and Bill adopted a daughter, Simone Lynn Masterson-Horn. Simone was born in June 2010. Scout is a surrogate uncle to Tori Spelling's three children, Liam, Stella and Hattie. Scout and Bill have been featured on the hit series, Tori & Dean: Home Sweet Hollywood where they are known as "The Guncles".

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