International Adoption Crisis Should Not Be A Viable Adoption

There is one thing that most people look forward to for their entire lives. Grow up, get married and have that perfect, happy family. Sometimes for this to happen, it involves adoption. Whether someone wants to start a family with it, or if they want to expand their family. No matter what the initial reason is adoption is everywhere and involves many people. Most people don’t go through life and say that they don’t know anybody who is adopted. Many people are related to, or know at least one person, that was adopted. So all countries should let people continue saying that by letting them adopt whether they are from a foreign country or not.

As parents continue to fight the laws stating they can’t adopt children of different race, the families that have tend to look into trips. Taking the children back to their place of birth to allow them to learn about their heritage as well as the culture they were born into. Adoptions around the world quadrupled during 1982-2004. There was a total of 23,000 children adopted out to families. When kids reach the age of around 10 the parents believe a trip to their birth place would be very educational, enriching, and meaningful to the child. Most

If the adoption is going to be from another country, where the child is from another race and culture, the adopting parents should get to know about that race and culture before taking care of that child. So while raising this child, they can also teach them about their culture so they won’t be cut out of their original heritage. Because these children are banned from knowing about their culture and customs, it wouldn’t be good to take that away from anyone. So this can be a bad thing about taking in a child from another country, and the process would take up a lot more time and money to do this.

Since the 1960’s, interracial adoption has been on the rise, although it was looked down upon until the 1990’s. Many kids sit and wait to be adopted for most of their childhood. So, instead of adoption agencies waiting to find what they call “the perfect match,” which is referring to a family who is of the same race as the child they intend to adopt, they started allowing interracial adoption as a part of hoping every child finds a family that loves them beyond the color of their skin. Proponents argue that children grow up to not care that they aren’t the same color as their parents, their kids are more open to learning about their culture, and that kids of different races, other than caucasian, are more available in foster homes and overseas. While cons argue that family acceptance is a problem, the kid might feel uncomfortable about being a different race than their parents, and that parents might not like to stand out.

Although this situation can create negative consequences that can be detrimental to the child once reunited with their biological families. Once the child has been reunited they stand the chance of having a sense of not belonging, and not having a clear understanding of the beliefs and culture which they were born into, this can cause annihilation for all family members. Those that experience culture differences has the potential to benefit from a useful learning experience especially when education is put into the living arrangement, education holds the key to success for most. When speaking on personal culture influences those children miss out on what generations have passed on to the next generation, not having the knowledge of the struggles their parents, grandparents, and others have had to endure lessen the ability to understand the family’s animosity towards other cultures. Poverty and homelessness has become a rising factor for children being placed in other cultures in society today, we see white families adopting and fostering African American children, which can be a success story, but when these children are not exposed to their natural heritage they loss out on the link to their

In today's society, the idea of adoption is an open and welcome one. “When an adoptive family begins to explore the idea of adopting a child, it is easy for them to quickly become overwhelmed with information, questions and decisions” (American Adoptions, Inc). However, one of the biggest problem most adoptive parents could run into is whether they are wanting to adopt domestically or internationally. With the number of celebrities’ advertising the ease of adopting internationally and the publicizing conditions the orphans live in it makes American families want to adopt internationally. The number of children in the United States in foster care approved for adoption and the number of newborns born unwanted does not make the news so it domestic adoption is not as glamorous. Domestic adoption should be the first choice to help improve our country and give the children born in the United States a chance at a family.

Many children in the United States and throughout the world have been orphaned, put under foster care, or had something similar happen that results in the child being alone, in a sense. These children will often be entered into an adoption agency. All the children on the records of these adoption agencies have something in common no matter what race or religion they are a part of; they all need a home and a family. Through adoption any person of any race can provide a child of a different ethnicity or of the same ethnicity as himself or herself, so long as he or she qualifies; however, the ethnicity of a child in comparison to his or her adoptive parent or parents may affect the ability of the

Adoptive parents often decide to go with international adoption due to absurd argumentation. This leaves thousands of children in the United States adoption system; unfortunately, these children cannot stay in the government funded system

After World War II, the dissolution of European families resulted in the significant increase in the number of adoptions of foreign born children. This began America’s active participation in what is currently known as international, or intercountry, adoption. Every year for the last six decades, Americans have adopted thousands of foreign born children. It is the process by which the prospective adoptive parent adopts a child from a country other than the parent’s own, through permanent legal means, and brings that child to the parent’s country of residence to live with the parent permanently. Like domestic adoption, it is the legal transfer of parental rights and responsibilities from a child’s birth parents, or guardian, to a new parent.

In all of the international adoption cases, an important value is diversity. Adoptive families should show an interest in adopting from the country that they are adopting from. The families should find the culture of their future child to be very important. As the adoption counselor and I went one particular home study, I noticed stacks of books with information about Korea and even flash cards, so that they can learn Korean. In a research study completed by Reynolds, Pontereotto, and Lecker, it was discovered that “…participants expressed a struggle in dealing with the expectations and opinions of outsiders related to their racial and ethnic identities” (2016). Even though the couple’s books are there to support them and help them engage with

It is not only the involvement of two families but two countries. I think before any international adoption should proceed, the adoptive parents must make the effort to know the child’s homeland. They must also demonstrate that they are willing to protect the rights of the child against any threat. I think in that way the child won’t lose part of his cultural and ethnic identity. The sending country should make sure the international adoption is the last option after visiting the other options such as extended families that might be able to take care of the child or orphanage agencies or even domestic adoption. Only after these options have been exhausted, only then international adoption should be considered. Once it is done, they need to assure the child is guaranteed to have a better future. I don’t think it should stop at a simple background check or to check if the adopters are good citizens. It should go beyond that; like take for instance the case of Carleton Gajdusek; he was an extraordinary scientist and he received a Nobel prize for his research. Given his background and how he was perceived in society, Gajdusek was given the opportunity to bring back with him in the US 56 children from New Guinea. Parents trusted the scientist and believe that he will offer those kids a higher education. However, he was later accused of molesting those kids. Shouldn’t this be a lesson to society? Therefore, I

Why would anyone care if a child is adopted from another country? Does the care of adopted children from another country really matter? Since the last couple of decades, couples have been able to adopt children from other countries including the United States. Ethnic adoption can ruin a child’s life. It can ruin a child’s life just because love is not enough. There are many factors that need to be emphasized in regards to ethnic adoption. The factors include: the child becoming culturally deprived, the child having weaker family bonds, and that there are other children in America that need

It has been commonly believed that the process of adoption offers perfect solutions for both the birth family and the adoptive family, as well as for the adopted child. This was believed under the presumption that everyone’s needs are met, and family life can proceed with ease, to good to be true. There are many differences that exist between biological families and those in the adoption circle, causing a disruption in the child’s development due to polar opposite changes. Its also a common belief that almost all adoptions are overseas however a greater

In the US alone, there are over four hundred thousand children without permanent families and over one hundred thousand waiting to be adopted (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 2015). Couples who cannot have children and are looking for ways for to have children can adopt. Children in foster care are alone and in desperate need of someone to love them unconditionally, showing them that no matter what they are wanted. Adoption is one of the ways couples can have children, through the adoption process, couples can rescue a child from a life in the child welfare system, giving them a family and a hope of a better life, even through the contentious issue of interracial adoptions.

The necessity of adoption in the world is astounding. Currently, there is an estimated 143 million orphans worldwide (Wingert, vol.151). As of 2007, there were 513,000 children living in foster care within the United States alone (Rousseau 21:14). International adoption in the United States was jumpstarted post World War II as a way of helping those children who were left homeless, after war had taken their parents. Although there are thousands of healthy children awaiting adoption in the United States, several American couples still turn to foreign adoption when seeking potential children. Americans often fail to realize the need for intervention within their own country and their duty to take care of domestic affairs before venturing to