Becoming An Independent Adoption

Some people believe that the price of adoption should not be lowered. They believe that with all the costs it helps keep the bad people from getting ahold of the children. The authorities need to make sure people will be good parents and would not be abusive or not able to provide for the child (WIASE?). This shows that the authorities are taking extra precaution with who they allow adopt a child. Also, the cost goes towards many court fees to make sure that child becomes fully and legally your child and it gives you a peace of mind (WIASE?). This shows that when you pay all that money you are paying so many different places, so that you know in the end that child is fully your child.

Adoption is the process in which a person takes over the parenting of someone else’s child and permanently transfers all the responsibilities and rights from the biological parent or parents. Giving up a child for adoption is a very difficult decision for a mother to make. Today, many children are being parented by a single parent, a grandparent, a stepparent, foster parent or other parent figure. Making adoption an option is done by providing loving, responsible, and legally permanent parents to a child when their biological parents are not able or will not take care of them.(Carter)

Even though adoption as a process has negative results for adopting children, some people still takes this act to be a good act where children who are deprived of parents still have a

Of course Adoptive parents across the nation seemed to digress from this opinion, due to the emotional struggle and financial trials that often come with the adoption process, and favored that they baby be given to their adoptive parents who rightfully “adopted” a child who had been willingly given up in infancy (and raised and cared for by adoptive parents for two years) by the biological mother and a father who relinquished his biological rights to her prior to adoption.

The issue with adoption is the financial challenges with orphanages, foster homes and parents who want to adopt but cannot. Many changes need to be made when it comes to the adoption system. Adoption is a social justice issue because so much money is going to orphanages and foster parents when it could be used for other things, such as helping people who want to adopt but cannot. The cost of adopting should be lowered to have more adoptions and fewer people to pay. Adoption regulations should be changed considering the long process and money it takes to adopt and the process doesn’t always let people become parents.

When a couple or individual decides to adopt a child, they know they are going to take on the responsibility of taking care of someone else’s child. Due to the biological parent(s) who can’t take care of that child anymore, because of either drug abuse, alcohol abuse, abuse to the child or if the parent(s) had died and there is no other care for the child. So that’s why this gives other couples who cannot have kids, the opportunity to promise themselves to be a great parent to a child in need. Though there are some bad things about adoption as well. Like adopting a child from another country of another race, because once that child is adopted into an American family, he or she will be cut off from their culture and never know about their

This process takes a long time. Typically, when someone wants to start a family, nine months later they welcome a baby. Another plus is during those nine months is that you are able to prepare for the baby's arrival because you have the time and the knowledge of the gender and age. It does not happen when you foster-to-adopt. You start this process by going to the information meeting, getting assigned a PRIDE class slot, and then attending PRIDE classes. This could take anywhere from 2-6 months. Also, if you miss one class, you MUST make it up during the next cycle, which could be months away. Then, you are assigned a caseworker. It might take a while for him/her to contact you, and then when they do, you have to schedule a home visit. We waited

An organization called the Independent Adoption Center is an open adoption agency that works has facilitated adoptions in 49 states with couples and individuals who are looking to adopt. They have no exclusionary policies and restrictions towards race, religion, age, martial status, sexual orientation, or gender identity. The IAC has indicated that families that are transgender have the same wait time as heterosexual, gay male, and lesbian couples. Additionally they indicated that no state prohibits transgender parents from adopting children. The only thing that is different however is when individuals want to adopt. At this time, Mississippi and Utah prohibit adoptions by lesbians and gay men. Also there has only been about five placements

Adoption in America been ruled by a stigma. For much too long, those who could not have children, unwed mothers, and the children born out of wedlock have been shamed and humiliated. I believe it is time for these supposedly disgraceful ideas to go by the wayside, and we begin hold onto the idea that all families are beautiful things, no matter how they are composed or how they came about. There is no shame in being an infertile couple, an unwed mother, or a child with unwed parents.

Adoption is a beautiful system that allows for families to raise a child that could have otherwise been in bad situations. These children are taken in by a family and are given a fresh start. Children can be adopted from birth until they are eighteen years old, but thousands of these children in need are not given the opportunity of adoption because of the extravagant cost. An adoption ranges anywhere from $6,000 to $50,000 and because of this Adopt Together says, “Cost is the number one reason families don’t adopt.” There is a long list of fees that rack up the price that include legal fees, home studies, agency cost, and many more. The extravagant cost of adoption can and should be lowered in order that more families can provide a loving home to children in need.

In the early to late 1970s, fathers had no rights in the adoption process while mothers had very little. Almost all of the adoptions were arranged by agencies when the adoption peak was around 175,000 per year. That's 175,000 kids they were responsible for. In 1994, the Multicultural placement law was passed to prohibit using race as a factor for it not being a home. Nowadays there is still a problem with the system. The systems are deciding where the child gets placed based on religion, type of parent, and maybe even siblings. That's hurting the feelings of those who want to adopt, the biological parents, and the children. The biological parents should have a say in where there child is placed based on what they feel is best for their child.

While some people say fundraising for adoption is wrong they focus on how much it cost and not on giving a child a home. Source A indicate that domestic private adoption cost 10,000-40,000 while international adoption cost 13,000-50,000. So when we talk about the expense of adoption there is always a cheaper option and a different route to take. Usually, people adopt internationally than domestically when the adopt domestically there helping people in their own country and saving the government money. So the next time aspects come up in an adoption conversation you know that there are multiple ways you can handle it.

But anyways most adoptions end up failing or falling through because their adoptive parents can't take care of them or can't make the time for them. In some foster homes they will get taken away due to if their adoptees do bad things such as drink or do drugs. Most of the time if the kids are of age such as 21 to be able to purchase alcohol, some social workers will overlook it but if they are under age and they get taken from you it will be a long process before you could ever think about getting them back. If you are trying to adopt a kid it could take a few days to a few months to get them. When you adopt a child, you will have social workers come to your house a lot to do annual checkups on how the kids are doing and how they like it. Coming from myself, I have been through the whole social worker ordeal when my parents divorced and the social workers had to ask us if we was ok with everything that was happening and they had to check the house to make sure we would have everything we could need or needed such as a refrigerator, oven, and just your basic home

When my grandma couldn’t have children she adopted my dad, uncle, and aunt. I love them all, but I started to think what about the other children who are still in the adoption centers across the world, who some people can’t adopt. Everyone deserves a home with a loving family, and an eternal family. Children across the world have to stay in a center or orphanage for a long time, even when a person wants to adopt them. In some countries you have to live there for at least 4 years and then you’re able to adopt the children, which is really upsetting. On one side of the debate, people will argue that people should not be able to adopt international because of the problems, money, and the abuses some parents do. However, people should absolutely

There is absolutely nothing wrong with a childless couple wanting to adopt a baby—it would certainly be a wonderful, life-changing decision for both the parents and the child—but this still leaves a fairly large group of older children without a home to call their own. “Because of changes in legislation and policies regarding child welfare, increasing numbers of older children are being placed for adoption. Many of these children are defined as having ‘special needs’ and include children who are at risk for physical, emotional, or behavioral problems” (Schweiger). Statistics today show that the majority of children put up for adoption are said to have special needs, which could be any number of things that might make finding a home more difficult for them: they could be a racial minority, have emotional or physical issues, be of an older age, have siblings that cannot be separated from them, have behavioral problems, or possess a record of difficulty in past adoptive placements (Wind). All of these children are desperately in need of a family to call their own, although some children—such as those who are of an older age or those who have siblings that they do not wish to be split up from— have a significantly more difficult time finding one. Infertile couples are clearly the more traditional adoptive parents, but it would certainly be impossible for every child to find a home if they were the only group looking to adopt. According to Rene Hoksbergen, the