About the Author

Mardie Caldwell is the Founder and Director of Lifetime Adoption and the host of the popular Internet radio talk show, “Let’s Talk Adoption…with Mardie Caldwell”. Caldwell is a Certified Open Adoption Practitioner (C.O.A.P.) and expert who assists in over 120 adoptions per year, is an adoptive mother, author, educator and lecturer. She has appeared on CNN, CBS, ABC, NBC, Fox, the BBC, PBS, Dr. Laura and numerous other radio and TV shows. She has been quoted and consulted for print articles in national and local newspapers, and publications including Parenting and Adoptive Families magazines.

Caldwell is an adoptive mother, infertility patient and has experienced first-hand, the joys and challenges of adoption. It became her life’s work when she realized how important safe and secure adoptions are. Her will to inform those who are seeking to adopt transformed itself into the book AdoptingOnline.com, where she shares her personal experience and has personally listed over 1,200 Internet adoption sites where information can be gleaned to assist those in seeking the child of their dreams.