International Adoption

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.

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

When you adopt out of the country you most likely will not know the medical history or the parent’s information. Most of the time the child or baby will not be able to speak English or speak at all. Before you adopt the child or baby you may have to have fundraisers because it costs a ton of money. Once you adopt the child or baby it does

When an individual or family decides to adopt children or a child through intercountry adoption the individuals/ families must make certain that they are following all rules and guidelines set forth by the HCIA if applicable, to the country in which the individual or family is adopting. It is equally important for the adopting country to make certain that the child is being adopted for the right reasons, however it is something that it hard to gauge as a Social Work or adoption agency. Globally Social Worker has a vast set of responsibilities as practitioners of social justice. Intercountry adoption is just one sector in which Social Workers play a vital role, in the field of Social Work this is why aiding in developing policies are so important.

The children in these situations evidently face many circumstances other children do not. From emotional attachment issues to physically having to go from place to place. As these adoptive families are formed, these struggles must be considered. Not only is it significant to discover new heritage, but it is also correspondingly significant for adoptive children to be educated of their biological heritage. Adoptive parents have an obligation to disclose all pertinent information to their adoptive children, to include the identity of their birth parents “Birth parents also began to demand greater involvement in the adoption process, including the right to know the progress of the children they had relinquished” (Mandell Reid, B.,2007). However, it is the adoptive parent’s choice until the child is 18 and can choose what they would like to do with their life.

This allows for people to even adopt locally or near them. This can be convenient for families to save money on traveling. Even in domestic adoption, people must travel to the place of the child’s birth and often even travel to meet the biological parents prior to the birth. This is not ideal for people who choose to adopt from another state because the cost of travel is added on to the total. However, adopting closer to home is still less expensive than adopting internationally. The requirements are also less strict for people adopting domestically. You have to prove a stable marital relationship, clean criminal record, correct age, and health to be authorized to adopt. Overall domestic adoption is less costly and has less strict of requirements for people wanting to pursue the adoption route for a child of their

Against the amounts of credible evidence, throughout all the headlines in International Adoption: A Sociological Account of the US Experience, never once was there a counter argument on how domestic adoption compares to the topic of international adoption. For further support of their topic, a counter argument would best fit in the headline “Attitudes towards US adoptions and their impact on adoption policies.” In this section, it reveals the polices from other countries such as Korean government reducing the number of adoptions to US parents. With circumstances from other countries, a statement on domestic adoption and the US laws would counteract with the situation. For example, in International Adoption, written by Christina Frank, writes

The number of international adoptions taking place in the United States is steadily increasing. Many people looking to start a family in the United States are turning to international adoptions because the process is easier than adopting within this country. However, many of these adoptive parents are not ready for the challenges of adopting a child from another country. Not only are the adoptive parents and the children at different levels of readiness to attach but the child is forced into a new culture as well. Many of the children adopted internationally have been mistreated prior to adoption and as a resulting have great difficulty forming attachments with their adoptive parents. It is difficult for these internationally

There are many challenges existing in ethnic adoption. The most difficult wide gap is that cultural difference. Although the majority of people hope to remove the bad views of difference races and fuse the whole world, there still remain some preconceptions when people treat other ethnic ones. According to Leonard(2006), some ethnic minorities receive lower care than the non-minorities. In another condition which the adopted children are not their current parents’ natural sons and daughters, they may bear more pressure than the same ages’. Some children at very young age are adopted by other couples and taken to the whole strange areas to raise. Generally speaking, they can adapt in the new environment, including their

Adoption is the process in which an adult legally becomes the guardian to a child or children that are not biologically their own (Legal Information Institute, n.d.). Through adoption, a new family is created and rather than looking at it as one event—which many people mistakenly do—it is a lifelong process that has an effect on every aspect of all parties involved. While there are many different components of adoption, this paper has a strong emphasis of unrelated adoptions, or adoptions by adults who are not in any way biologically related to the child, and when fit, the adoption process and effects specific to infants.

When an adolescent becomes pregnant, they are faced with the choice on whether or not to parent it or put it for adoption. One article surveyed adolescent mothers who placed their children for adoption and adolescent mothers who parented their children. This particular survey indicated that adolescent mothers who put their child for adoption are more likely to complete vocational training, delay marriage, be employed after the births, and live in higher income households verses mothers who parent their children. Such authors of this article believe that adolescents who put their child for adoption had more advantages than adolescents who chose to parent their child. The mothers who did choose to adopt reported their lives as being less stressful. Majority of these mothers who chose to place their child for adoption also reported that they received post placement counseling and found that to help increase their satisfaction for their decision.

There are many different important aspects to consider in international adoptions versus domestic adoption. When adopting from a foreign country, it is important be comfortable with respecting and teaching the country’s culture and ethics to that child as it is part of their cultural heritage. Likewise, children adopted internationally are of various ethnicities of which you must be comfortable with accepting into your own family. To adopt internationally, travel to the foreign country is usually required once or twice for a period of one to two weeks each trip. This will allow the chance to meet with the child selected for adoption. International adoptions are comprised of the adoption of a child from an orphanage. Due to government guidelines and abandonment issues in foreign countries, it is impossible or very limited to access information regarding the child or their family’s medical or personal history prior to arrival at the orphanage (How to Adopt, n.d.). Because most children adopted internationally are cared for in an orphanage, they are at an increased risk of developmental or motor delays as also stated by How to Adopt (n.d.). It is also important to note that newborns are not available for adoption in foreign countries as it takes time to process all the foreign documentation and approval needed prior to travel to picking up the child and bringing them to the U.S.

Imagine being a child living in a third world country and only being fed two meals a day that barely provide the nutrients needed to help one grow, along with receiving very little affection. Some people argue that international adoption, provides a key role in improving a child 's life. Although others believe international adoption creates many complications and should not be an option. Therefore, many believe adopting a child from an outside country or culture can be quite rewarding for both the parents and the child; however, international adoption deals with many concerns as well as serious challenges.

"When a poor person dies of hunger, it has not happened because God did not take care of him or her. It has happened because neither you nor I wanted to give that person what he or she needed,” said Mother Teresa. It is true that of the 2.2 billion children in the world, an estimated 22,000 of that population die each day from poverty according to globalissues.org. As a way to fulfill their part in reducing those numbers and to provide a child with a stable and enriching environment as expressed by Mother Tereasa as what “he or she needed”, many American parents turn to third world countries in order to adopt. According to the Bureau of Consular Affairs, there were exactly 7,092 international adoptions by American families in 2013 which makes us the leading country on the receiving side followed closely by countries such as Italy, Spain and England. Although, what should be a beautiful humanitarian effort in order to provide supposedly orphaned, impoverished children in desolate villages with opportunities and care that they could never receive in their own country has turned into a lucrative business. This “business” which puts more emphasis on the financial side of the process and less on the wellbeing of the child, exploits both the biological mother, the child, and the receiving family while providing large sums of money to corrupt foreign agencies.

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