Summary

"The Baby with Three Families, Two Countries, and One Promise" is a children's book designed to be read by parents to a child adopted from a foreign country. The story is first recounted from the perspective of the parents in the USA, who are very sad not to be able to have a child. The perspective then switches to that of the biological mother, who realizes that she does not have the wherewithal to raise a child. She makes the difficult decision to give up her baby. Next readers learn about a foreign adoption agency, which brings in foster parents to take care of the baby temporarily. The foster parents give the baby a temporary name. The parents in the USA begin researching international adoption possibilities, and connect with the foreign adoption agency. They begin the adoption process, and have to go to a school to learn how to be adoptive parents. When the adoption agency matches the USA parents with the baby, the USA parents fly to the foreign country, where they meet the baby, their contact at the adoption agency, and the foster parents. They find out that the temporary name given to the baby by his foster parents is one of the names they have selected for the baby. Their last requirement in the foreign country is to secure a visa for the baby from the U.S. Embassy. With their visa in hand, they return to the United States, where they are joyously greeted by their dog, their friends, and their parents, who are now the baby's grandparents. When the parents tuck their baby in at night, they tell him his story--that he has three families, two countries, and a promise for the future to return to the country of his birth.