Ethical Issues On Open Adoption

Forty-six percent of the couples in the qualitative study believed that open adoption was the “best option for the child”, twenty percent did it because they “wanted contact with the child’s birth parents, eleven percent fear they would not be allow to adopt without doing an open adoption, and five percent did open adoption because the adoption agency suggested it (Goldberg, 2001, p. 505). After two years they questioned those parents again about the amount of contact between them and the birth parents. The only significant changes were that of the eleven percent of parents that did open adoption out of fear of not being able to adopt without the openness, fifty percent reduced the contact while twenty-one percent stopped the contact altogether. The other significant change was that of the five percent that did open adoption because the agency suggested it twenty-nine reduced contact and twenty-nine percent stopped contact (Goldberg, 2001, p.

Should adopting a child be free? As a first response, many people would answer “Yes, adoption should be free,” arguing that there should not be a price tag on children, or that adoption is unreasonably expensive. Others may argue that “No, it should not be free,” because it may unknowingly put the adoptees at risk for danger, while the children are easily accessible. Adoptions were created to give children, whose biological parents could not care for them, a new and affectionate home, and for couples who wanted children, but could not have them biologically because of health reasons. Today, many people adopt children to add on to their family. With adoption being free, many “unfit” people would qualify to be

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

“I want to be like my adoptive mother, but my birth mother says I’m like her. I don’t know what to do or who I am. My whole life is messed up. It’s not my fault. It can’t be fixed,” said a girl adopted into an open adoption (Byrd). An open adoption is a process in which the birth parents and the adoptive parents know each other and are involved in the adopted child’s life. A closed adoption is when there is no contact at all and no identifying information is given between birth and adoptive parents (Byrd). While both are common to today’s society, closed adoptions allow opportunities for the adoptive parents to raise their kids without the interference of birth parents (Bender).

The sorrowful events that came with opening our adoption proves that if a closed adoption is chosen, it needs to stay that way. Adoptive children need protected from unhealthy lifestyles. Closed adoptions need to remain closed to protect children from experiencing a life they were supposed to be taken away from. Children need to feel loved and should be able to live life as a child instead of fearing situations out of their control. They can contact their biological family if they chose at the legal age, until then closed adoptions should remain just

Relationships between biological, adoptive parents, and the adoptee have the potential to increase when allowing contact between families. “Legislators often don't understand how deeply the issue affects adoptees and how many people's lives can be enhanced by having birth parents and children they gave up for adoption make contact, said Pennsylvania Republican state Rep. Kerry Benninghoff. (Bergal, 2016, para. 8). Contact between families allows for a foundation to lifelong relationships. Building

With 1.5 million American families wanting to adopt a child, there is no such thing as an unwanted baby (Lowen). Growing up in a family with three adopted children, I can personally say that they have been my family’s biggest blessings and have grown to be my very best friends. They are a part of us and they have positively affected everyone I know in some way. I could and do not what to imagine by life without them. There is nothing wrong with any child, how their parents choose to treat them before and after they are born is not their fault. Every child should come into the world wanted, loved, and cared for.

As an adoptee, I feel that all adoption records should be open. I believe that this can only strengthen the quality of the

Birth Parents should choose open adoption because open adoption keeps them involved in their biological child’s life. In Adoption the Answer Book, Brette McWhorter Sember defines “Kinship agreement as an agreement outlining contact that Birth Parents … will have with a child who has been adopted “(180) and the agreement can also be called “Post- Adoption Agreement” (181). In the agreement, Birth parents, Adoptive parents and Adoptees can set up phone calls to the adoptive parents or child (when old enough), can exchange photos, gifts, letters, e-mails and other mementos of the child’s biological family (Beauvais- Godwin). The agreement helps the birth parents not over step bound and step on the toes of Adoptive parents. Receiving the pictures give a sense of affirmation, they made the right choice and that the adoptee is doing well. Others believe that open adoption is a way to get that benefits of parenting without the expense of parenting.

Leanna, you had some good points and it was understandable. Adoption is a long process and can takes months before the adoptive parents can get the child. My aunt did an unrelated adoption to my cousin’s best friend. Her mother died and she was a teenager, so too young to take care of herself. Since she was older enough to make her on decision she was staying with my aunt before the adoption was process. The adoption agency is responsible for that child and on how his or her future might in up. You do not want to give a child to the wrong people. Not everybody qualify to become an adoptive parents. It is more to it than that, there are good people who want kids, but really do not have the financial support for the child. Independent adoption

With closed adoptions, meaning those adoptions where the birth parents have no further contact with the adoptee or the adoptive family, one has to look at the fact the birth parents, who could be considered not the best of people, are out of their lives for good. There is not an issue with a birth parent coming in at some point and ruining the relationship that has been built between the adopted child and their family. However, the adoptee may develop a sense of a lack of identity since the adoptee would have no contact with their biological beginnings. Open adoptions, those adoptions where the birth parents and the forever families continue to have contact with one another throughout the child’s life, give the child the option to

When the average American citizen today thinks about the concept of adoption, what images are typically the first that come to mind? Although different people are sure to have equally as different experiences in this field, one picture continues to remain the most commonly-accepted. This image consists of a man and a woman who cannot have children of their own, a newborn baby, and a single mother who will certainly be unable to provide for the infant due to her young age, lack of financial support, or another variety of unfortunate circumstances. Making the decision to adopt a child is without a doubt one of the best options available for couples who are unable to conceive, but by thinking of adoption as nothing more than the fallback

In United States of America, it is estimated that approximately one hundred and twenty thousand cases of child adoption take place each year. Some causes of parents giving their children up for adoption are unstable finances, young age pregnancy, and involuntary circumstances. These children that are put into adopt end up growing up in foster care or in the home of their adoptive parents’ home. As the adopted learn that they are not with biological parents, some gain the courage to start the journey of finding their birth parents. An adopted child being introduced to his birth parents should be thought of carefully. This situation has pros and cons attached. Being that this can result in a negative way, should children be allowed to locate their biological parents when they are of age to understand?

Due to the growing curiosity of their family history, and longing for a sense of identity, adopted children should be informed of the identity of their birth parents by their adoptive parents. Discovering you are adopted is hard enough, but the worst part is not knowing where you come from. Adopted deserve to know who their biological parents are, and more importantly, what they look like. They have a right to know where their bloodlines lie. Some questions the child may have can only be answered by their birth parents. Every adopted child should be informed of who their biological parents are by their adoptive parents.

“There are no unwanted children. Just unfound families.”, a quote from the National Adoption Center. Do you think adoption should be encouraged? This is a good question because we need know that adoption is a good thing and it’s a blessing to someone’s family and to a child’s life. Adoption is good because it’s a blessing to a married couple that can’t grow babies. It also gives the child being adopted a better life and a new beginning. The problem is that there are children and teens that need a new family, and that are suffering at home. The cause to this is that their parents are neglecting them and abandoning them. The solution would be adoption, and giving them to families that care.