Personal Narrative Essay: Adoption

On October 21, 2015 I and some friends attended an event sponsored jointly by the Humanities and English department. The title of this event; “Adoption Narratives of the Human”. Four women sat on the panel; Maggie Jones, Visiting Assistant Professor, Nonfiction Writing, University of Pittsburgh; Margaret Homans, Professor of English and Women’s, Gender, Sexuality Studies, Yale University; Frayda Cohen, Senior Lecturer, Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies, University of Pittsburgh; SooJin Pate, independent scholar and educator, Minneapolis, MN.

My most enduring passion is the care of foster children. This interest sprouted several years ago when my aunt and uncle first became foster parents. Since then, as I have loved and tended to the children in their care, it has grown into a full-fledged desire to base my career on ameliorating these children’s lives. I aspire to pursue a career in law so that I may one day fight for their prosperity and facilitate their adoptions into loving homes. Studying Political Science would allow me to achieve these goals by preparing me for law school. Along with the ability to lead me towards my desired career path, this major encompasses a plethora of captivating subjects: government, problem solving, critical thinking, writing, philosophy and ethics,

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

During the early 1900s, the large majority of adoptions in the United States were closed. In the Western world many thought that the way to make adoptions a natural part of forming a family was by completely severing the links between the adoptee and his biological family and for birth parents and adoptees to remain unknown to each other. It was thought that severing these links made the newly formed family appear to be a biological family, which was assumed to be the ideal family

The conflict of whether or not single parents should be allowed to adopt has been a very concerning problem in the U.S for many years, and many believe the conflict has became a bigger problem. The real problem that people are not seeing is that children are sitting in an adoption home without the love and care they need. It doesn't matter whether a parent is married or single they still offer the love a child needs. And in all reality growing up with one parent is better than growing up with none, do to my experiences. When you limit adoption down to only couples it becomes a huge detriment in the chance of a child getting adopted. For the most part, all a child needs is love; something child hearts are full of.

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.

Would you ever adopt a kid? Thousands of kids are accepted into good homes every day, but so many are also put into bad homes. Are there ways to prevent this from happening? Once kids are accepted into homes, there are no more checkups into the home after legalization of the child. Most of the time kids will not take the initiative to tell anybody about their problems with their newly found homes. The kids are thankful for their new home and sometimes too scared to tell anybody about their problems simply because they are scared what will come next, so that is where the people around them come into play. Those people are there to notice these things for the sake of the child. Several kids earn the right to be adopted, unfortunately

In today’s society, over 143 million of children worldwide are growing up without parents (The United Nations Children’s Fund, 2006). This is largely due to homelessness, wars, natural disasters, and disease which produce many unadopted children (Bartholet & Smolin, 2012). Unparented children find themselves at a high-level danger of perception, deficient care, mistreatment and exploitation, and their welfare is regularly inadequately monitored. Many Children without parental care are placed in terrible institutions, where they receive less personal attention and insufficient care environments can diminish children’s feeling and societal advancement and leave them defenceless to exploitation, sexual mistreatment and corporal savagery (The

“James and Martha Brown went to Mrs. White’s office the next day and found waiting for them a bouncing baby girl with soft brown eyes and a happy smile. Right away they said, ‘We love this baby already’” (Wasson). As is stated in the classic children’s book, The Chosen Baby, this story serves as a common introductory tool that some adoptive families use to explain to their children the way their family was created. The Chosen Baby shares the absolute joy that parents experience when adopting a child and effectively helps children better understand their family dynamics. Adoptive families are unique in that they choose their children, creating a loving foundation for a nurturing home. Although a “chosen family” would appear to be

A variety of different people and families will chose to adopt a child within their lifetime. Some will chose to adopt due to an inability to have children, “others choose to adopt rather than add to the world’s ever-expanding population”, and yet again others “choose adoption because they were adopted themselves or because they are sympathetic to children in orphanages or foster homes and want to provide them a home.” Whatever the reason, most of these adoptive parents share the same pain and concern of not receiving an adequate amount of time off in order to finalize the adoption, bring their child home, and help them to adapt to their new environment. Though adoptive parents do not have to go through the process of childbirth, there is still a list of things that they need to go through in order to bring and keep their new child in their home. This list of things, “includes the following steps: home study,…placement of the child in an adoptive home; postplacement, periodic reports submitted to the court by caseworkers on the progress of the child, within the new family:[and] finalization of the adoption according to law.” Not only that, but adoption can cause psychosocial ramifications on the adoptive families, that include, but does not limit, problems with developmental tasks and higher stress levels. With all of these steps that must be done plus the added possibilities of psychosocial

     Adoption is metamorphosing into a radical new process that is both sweeping the nation and changing it. But this process is not an easy one, there are many steps to go through. Through research it is made a lot easier. Adoption is a also a highly visible example of a social institution that has benefits from and been reshaped by both the Internet and the exponential growth of alternative lifestyles, from single to transracial to gay. It is accelerating our transformation into a more multicultural society; even as it helps redefine out understanding of “family.” The process includes three main steps including a type of adoption, the techniques for location a baby for adoption, arranging

mothers to evaluate circumcisions for the infant with the father, and grandparents on an interpersonal level. Intrapersonally, mother’s are uncertain of infant circumcision therefore they seek guidance from family members. When the decision for infant circumcision is made, fathers and grandparents are typically absence. This causes either delays the procedure or for the infant to bypass the procedure completely.

In the following pages, I will discuss one of the least discussed aspects of our salvation: adoption. I will describe what it is and will establish its great importance in the life of every believer. In discussing this important aspect of Soteriology, I will touch upon the different roles of the triune God in bringing us into this privileged relationship. Through study of biblical passages, I will show the importance of fully understanding our adoption and its impact on our Christian walk. As a natural outflow of the study of adoption, I will also examine the concept of sonship, with special emphasis on rights, responsibilities and discipline. My goal is to explain this marvelous truth and to make it clear that the doctrine of adoption,

Adopting a child is an experience that promises to bring great joy as it changes a couple or individual’s life forever. But what happens if the mother of that child wants to endorse their child? Those are the issues that many adopting parents and birth-right mothers are facing today. Many biological mothers want their child back. There are many concerns for adopting parents to know- that there is the possibly that the birth mother may file for the child. As a birth mother or the adopting parent one must realize consequences that could lay ahead.

Since 1776, the United States of America has had a growing problem with orphans and childhood adoption. Orphanages become overpopulated while foster homes shelter up to 3 children on average. The foster care system has been viewed as positive reinforcement for American homes; yet the point of fostering children is consistently overlooked. Adoption is necessary for orphans, foster children, or children in abusive homes. The act of adopting a child comes with positive benefits and fiscal responsibility, such as government assistance and wiser spending. Children obtain a healthy childhood with a familiar sense of belonging. The drawback of this is the long governmental process of petitioning for adoption. Seeking the birthparents, if they are alive, retrieving consent, being fiscally responsible, and having a safe environment for the child to grow up in are all responsibilities to look forward to when adopting a child. The adoption rate in the United States of America needs to increase dramatically, as there are social benefits, mental health improvements, and economical advantages for families who adopt.