Imagine replacing all abortions with adoption. There would be thousands of children sitting in foster care waiting for a family to adopt them, while wondering why their biological family didn’t want them. Not to mention the foster care system would be more flooded than it already is. Studies find that one in five kids who were in foster care will become homeless after 18; at 24 only half will be employed; less than 3% would have earned a college degree; 71% of women will be pregnant by 21; and one in four will have experienced post-traumatic stress disorder at twice the rate of United States war veterans. And often many are at risk of moving back into government systems – from juvenile centers to prison. (Soronen, 2014) The foster care system in America isn’t the most appealing. Most stories you hear from children who have lived through it often are about abuse and neglect in their foster care homes. Not to forget how adoption can negatively affect the biological parents. Most go through an immense grieving process that may last for decades. In one study by the Child Welfare Information Gateway, three-quarters of birth mothers still experience feelings of loss 12 to 20 years after placing their newborns. With carrying the baby for nine months you grow an attachment and bond. Many women are put in a position where they can’t provide for their baby or give them a good life, so they selflessly give them up for adoption hoping for the baby to have a better life than what they could have given them. There is a big chance that their baby doesn’t get that better life, and they end up staying in the foster care system, getting all of the downfalls of it. The way the foster care system is today it would be more selfish to put your child through that than to abort…
Adoption is the social and emotional process in which children, who will not be raised by their birth parents, become full and permanent legal members of another family. Also while maintaining genetic connections to their birth family. Open adoption is when birthmothers or birthparents have adoptive families have an interaction with one another including the adopted child. The interaction of the adoptive child with the birth family includes writing letters, sending e-mails, telephone calls, and especially visits with one another. The introduction of openness into the process of adoption offers new opportunities for children in need of a parent or parents or especially just wishing to expand on the family. Closed adoption also known as “Confidential Adoption” are files of the birth parents are sealed and never will be revealed unless approval of both parties (FindLaw). There is no interaction of birthmothers and the adoptive family.…
The imperative take away is that adoption is a great way to form or expand American families, provide a loving, safe and permanent family environment away from inapt government institutions. The United States Federal government and its agencies have diligently worked with and assisted families through their adoption journey to provide a better alternative to Haitian children. The successful federal adoption assistance makes a difference in a child’s life and gives incentives to other families to act and draws attention to the unresolved social…
This does not even scratch the surface of this issue. However I hope it shows enough to make you want to learn more. Our children and our families are suffering miserably at the hands of a system making money hand over fist being in the business of “legally” stealing our children and selling them to others.…
Questions on whether adoption serves the best interest of children, should foreign adoption be encouraged or promoted in Canada. Every child deserves a safe loving permanent home. That's a basic human need. Worldwide adoption in Canada should be promoted and not limited to Canadian babies only. Canadian society is multicultural and is based on values that don't discriminate between people of different race, gender or ethnic backgrounds. Babies and children at a young age can easily adapt to the Canadian culture and society and creates new and permanent family ties. Poverty certainly plays a role in many adoptions, there are babies and children in the world suffer from hunger so they deserve a chance for a better life. .In addition, many children…
According to the Cambridge dictionary, adoption is “the act of taking another person's child legally into your family to raise as your own child.” It quickly became a very popular thing to do in the mid-1900s. Since then, adoption has been a very common topic of conversation, more so of argument. Similar to a myriad of other controversial topics, people have their own opinions; many people are actually against adoption and could sit down and write a whole list of reasons why adopting a child is a terrible idea. However, many of those people never take into account all of the positives that come with adopting a child. Adoption is an amazing, indescribable act that I look forward to being a part of in the future. Just like almost everything in this imperfect world, adoption has its cons. As well, adoption has its pros; I believe that the more people partake in it, the better we can make the lives of children in need.…
Closed adoptions are adoptions in which the birthparents of the adopted child have no contact with the child after he/she is adopted or with the adoptive parents. No identifying information is provided to the adoptive family or the adopted child. Closed adoptions are controversial because they basically cut off all connections between the child and the birthparents. The child may never know who their birthparents are and they may have many questions that may remain unanswered. Many people think that these situations can cause problems with the child and the birthparents. We plan to show how closed adoptions are beneficial to the adopted child.…
A family that adopts in the U.S. is a part of something big; it gives someone the feeling they are needed, improves our education in the United States, lower the amount of citizens that end up homeless, and lower the amount of people that will go to prison. Everyone should adopt domestically; to better the country and lives of the American…
Imagine not understanding what you are doing, not even fully knowing who is coming to get you, and where you are going is a mystery in itself. These are all thoughts and questions that might run through a childs mind who is being adopted by a family that lives in a different country. This is an international adoption, and it can be controversial in the U.S along with other countries for different reasons. International adoption has gone throughout history adjusting as it has to, but it's not the only thing that has changed both what the parents go through and the children adapting have evolved as time goes on too. No matter how much is done to make this process easier there are always challenges that remain to face everyone affiliated with the process.…
Most adoptions involve minor children in a legal process that profoundly affects them for the rest of their lives. It is imperative that professionals involved in adoptions act ethically to safeguard the rights of vulnerable…
Open adoption birth parents experience a sense of less guilt as a benefit (Gray 27) of the adoption but what benefit does the child rear? Adoption should be more for the child and less for the birth parents emotional ground. But closed adoption does give the birth parents privacy because “placing a child for adoption is an extremely sensitive and vulnerable choice. Having a closed adoption creates an opportunity for a stronger sense of privacy,” (“N. A. I. C. H.” 1) and it can also reduce fear because “some birth mothers are concerned about explaining their choice, and a closed adoption serves as a way to prevent them from a confrontation with a child placed for adoption” (“N. A. I. C. H.” 1). Closed adoption rids the birth parents of the responsibility they were not ready for in the first place and gives the child a chance at a better life with more responsible individuals. In some cases, closed adoption kills two birds with one stone by riding a birth parent of the embarrassment of not being prepared or financially stable for a child while giving the adoptive child a chance for a better life with an adoptive family that is looking for a child to give love and a good life…
Adoption has been around since ancient times. Children at that time were given up be a slave or to become an heir for their adopted family’s name (Rowen). As time went on, however, adoption became more for the well-being of the child. Up until 1917 these adoptions were very informal. Informal adoptions could be described similar to transferring deeds of a house to a new owner (Carroll). Minnesota thought it was time to make adoption more official. They passed a law which required a child welfare agency to investigate every child that was placed with a new family. This law created what is known as closed adoption (Rowen). The government thought closed adoptions would allow the child to bond with their adoptive parents without the birth parents…
The system in which to integrate illegal immigrants is weak, and has been held off for to long. Because the Dream Act has been held off for so long it has not progressed and adapted as it should have already done. In my essay “The Dream” I explained a plan to improve the Dream Act for the years lost. The articles, “Children of Illegal Immigrants”, “Children of Illegal Immigrants Struggle when parents are deported”, “Lawmakers should pass the Dream Act” help to support my idea.…
Each year in America 4 million babies are born, and weather their parents are illegal immigrants or have visiting visas their newborns are…
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