Adoption Report

Whether the child was just about to come home into a loving and caring family, or has just been chosen by a family to come into, the government just decided to slash all of that. Apparently the Russian government likes to hide the facts and just throw out figures when talking about sensitive topics like this: “more than 60,000 U.S. adoptions of Russian children over the past 20 years, and 19 of those children died -- a death rate of roughly 0.03 percent,” and with that being said, they also skipped over the fact that “Russia's overall child death rate from parents is more than two times higher, given that the U.S. population is more than twice as large as Russia's” (Baitel). What makes this claim even more unbelievable is that my parents had to go through that long process full of documentation, background checks, and frequent unannounced visits to our house to make sure the living environment was safe enough. So let me pose this question: Why ban a country that requires these checks from adopting children and giving them a healthy, clean, and safe environment to thrive in? Because seven times out of ten (from my own observations), a child adopted into a Russian family will end up on the streets by the age of sixteen. In the United States that is nearly impossible considering the adoption agencies here require

In 2014, the Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System reported that there were 415,129 children in foster care. They were taken away when their families were in crisis or they couldn’t be cared for. Children are happy and carefree but the young child pictured above is disheveled. Her hair looks unkempt, as if not brushed for days. Redness under her eyes and the cuts on her lips disrupt the once perfect porcelain skin. Her eyes appear glossy and the single tear seems as if she’s trying to not show her pain. The picture as a whole resembles a mug shot. Unfortunately many children also resemble her physical condition. Social workers are usually working twice the amount of cases recommended and therefore overlook

The reporting party (RP) stated that Koinonia was informed on 1/21/16 that allegation were recently against the foster parents Brook and Patrick Cardenas. The allegation came to CPS recently however the incidents would have occurred about one year prior to the report. The foster children alleged that the foster parents made them sleep outside and they were naked. The foster children alleged that the foster parents would make them walk up and down stairs and had duct tape on their

Adopting children from other countries like Russia isn’t and will never be easy because of costs and sometimes the country itself doesn’t want to allow you to adopt an orphan. Russia banned America from adopting Russian children because of money. Russia did this because they didn’t

There is no place in the world that is without children who are in need of assistance, whether they be adoption or not. In China any child that is abandoned or lost is considered an orphan (Andrew 124). In Russia nearly every mentally or physically handicapped child is sent to “baby homes”, an orphanage for newborns to three year olds (Characteristics of Children). In Guatemala political, social, and economical forces have prevented many biological parents to care for their children (Yemm). Everywhere the predicament of children, who have no control over their own lives, has been brought to many figures of authority to plead their cause. The United States has a particularly strong bond with China, when it comes to adoption. This is because

willing to adopt, giving a second and a better life to orphans. Besides, they have put in place

The countries which sent the highest number of children for adoption were China, Russia, Ethiopia, Columbia, and Ukraine. However, over the years, the total number of annual adoptions from these countries has declined steadily. A number of reasons are responsible for the decline, including tighter governmental regulations, bans on adoptions from select countries to select countries, as well as longer waiting periods and increasingly strict requirements. For instance, Russia has had a series of intercountry adoption scandals in the United States, including deaths of Russian children from child abuse by the adoptive families in the United States. China has made administrative changes and created difficult requirements for prospective adoptive parents to meet in order to complete an adoption and shifted mainly to releasing children with special needs for international adoption. Further, Guatemala is notorious for its multiple failures related to human rights abuse, including child

Many children have been adopted throughout the world. While many of them do not know their origins, they grow up wanting to know about their birth parents. An adopted child may want to know if his illness may be genetic. This would be important regarding medical records, and having access to them for medical decisions. An adopted person may also like to learn about his ethnic background since that person may want to know about his roots. A person who was adopted may also wonder what his birth parents are like and why they gave the baby up for adoption. The emotional and practical issues are overwhelming and need resolution. Adoptees should have access to their sealed adoption records because it is their right to know about themselves.

Thus, one can conclude that this can be a terrifying prospect for would-be-parents to contemplate, and adoptive parents who wish to reduce this possibility may prefer international adoption or may otherwise work only to identify candidate children who have already been placed in an orphanage or foster program. In addition, some adoptive parents find that international restrictions on who may adopt (with regard to age, finances, etc.) may be less severe, making it more likely their

One of the up’s is that the adoption screening process should find parents who are good adoption candidates while removing those unable to handle the arrangement. When a good family adopts a child, he receives the love and support necessary to have a good childhood. Another good side of adoption is that both the birth parents and the adoptive parents have the experience they need to get through the adoption papers. However with the positives there are also negatives on the topic of adoption, for example in many cases adoption will provide benefits the birth mother. For the fact that in some cases, the birth mother is a single teen parent who would struggle to provide for herself and the child while attending school and working a job. However in other cases, the parents are physically or emotionally unable to raise the child. When these parents terminate parental rights for adoption purposes, they are seeking the help they need while still providing a good life for their baby. Adoptive parents will typically provide for medical mare for a new birth and pay all expenses regarding the legal process. Another negative to adoption is that the process is costly to both the birth family and the adoptive family, with that said it all pays off in the long run. Also a child is typically a long-drawn- out process. Once you decide the kind of agency best suited to your situation, you will begin an application process. You will complete a

There are taboos all across the world; some taboos are considered normal depending on where you are. Today most taboos are depicted through media, characters on TV shows who smoke are usually the deadbeats going nowhere, and this influences the public that smoking is not good and should be avoided. Another taboo is adults who wish to adopt children, but it’s looked at in a harsher light if the ones who wish to adopt a child is in a same-sex relationship or is single.

The collapse of the Soviet Union and Eastern European countries has brought an influx of children from that region (Wilkinson 1995, 175). At the present time international adoption became widely-distributed option of transfer and incorporation of children. There are several reasons of the increase of interest of people in international adoption. The main cause of the growth of intercountry adoption is higher rates of infertility among couples and the childlessness of single adults. According to Agrillo and Nelini, there are 8.9% of childless families in the US, the biggest international adopting country in the World (2008). Moreover, Insurmountable obstacles of domestic adoption, such as an interference of birth parents and limited availability of younger children provide additional encouragement because in many cases the adoption of infants is forbidden by local governments (Winkler 2007, 189). The humanitarian impulse to rescue a foreign child and less strict eligibility requirements in the international context provide additional encouragement could be assumed as another reason of the increase of international adoption.

International adoption, also referred to as intercountry adoption, is defined by The Encyclopedia of Adoption, Second Edition as, “the adoption, lawful transfer of parental obligations and rights, of a child who is a citizen of one country by adoptive parents who are citizens of a different country,” (Adamec and Pierce, 2000). While most who study adoption would say that it began over four thousand years ago, the specific category of international adoption evolved more recently, following the end of World War II (Adamec and Pierce, 2000). Since then, international adoption experienced an overall increase, especially in the 1990s, hitting it’s peak in 2004 of over forty-five thousand adoptions (Selman, 2012). However, after hitting this climax, international adoption suddenly experienced a drastic decrease, and by 2009 the global total of international adoptions had already dropped below 30,000 with the expectation of a continual decrease (Selman, 2012).

Transnational adoption - “the legal transfer of parental rights and responsibilities from a child’s birth parent(s) or other guardian to a new parent” (Bureau of Consular Affairs 2017) across national borders - is a widely disputed, yet prevalent practice of the past half-century. Statistics indicate that throughout the past two decades, between five and twenty-three thousand children are adopted from foreign countries by U.S. citizens each year (Bureau of Consular Affairs 2017). Such data should suggest that this phenomenon produces benefits to parties involved in the transnational adoption process.

In recent years three famous women made foreign adoption popular such as Madonna, Sandra Bullock, and Angelina Jolie. Some of the orphans were from the countries of Cambodia, Ethiopia, and Vietnam. “ But it is not about how rich a person seeking to adopt is, it is about getting steady, healthy, and happy homes for these kids ”(“Should International Adoption Be Banned?”). Different countries have different laws and programs in place to take care of orphans. Because of variations of care or lack of care, many children need to be adopted safe and happy homes. Americans should pursue adoptions from foreign countries with known adoption regulation abuses because it will positively benefit an orphaned child and their future.