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03/19/06
Making the decision twice
Categories: On Making an Adoption Plan
My single best piece of advice to pregnant women considering adoption is to make the decision twice--once before the birth, and once again after the birth.
As a graduate student in marketing communications, I’m currently taking a class that covers how people make the decision to take action (in the case of my class, it's the decision to buy a product).The stages of consideration for buying something are awareness, information gathering, pre-purchase evaluation, decision-making, purchase, and post-purchase evaluation.
However, these stages also apply to most other decisions... more
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