Personal Narrative: National Adoption

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,

Throughout life I have experienced numerous events that have shaped me into becoming the person I am to this day. Out of all these events, my adoption has been the most significant and life changing event of my life. Two weeks before my first birthday in, I was adopted from Nanchang, China. As I grew up, my parents never once tried to conceal my adoption. Without them, I believe I would have grown to be a totally different person. Although I was adopted and brought in by my adoptive parents, I see myself in the everyday. I see them as nothing less than my real parents and I aspire to be as generous and compassionate as they are. Without them, I would have never been able to experience half of the life changing events I have gone through. As

I’m BACK! I was in school studying phlebotomy for the last month and a half so now I’m studying for the state test and hoping to keep up with my blog again! Sorry about that, I hope you missed me like I missed you.

Adopting a child into your family can be a joyous, rewarding experience. However, the journey is not without its hurdles. Knowing what to expect throughout the adoption process will help you determine the best path forward while helping you avoid common pitfalls. Below, a Lake St. Louis, MO family law attorney from Coyne, Cundiff & Hillemann, P.C. discusses what you need to know with regard to the adoption process and eligibility.

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

One year later, a very tragic day happened. I have heard the talk about the word “adoption” and that “there’s too many dogs.” I ran towards Koda and hugged his paw. “What’s the matter?” asked Koda. “Dad, whats adoption?” I asked. “Adoption is a state of someone legally takes someone or something and brings it up as one’s own.” “What do you mean?” I asked. “It’s time for your brothers and sisters to be adopted,” said Koda, “but don’t worry, Kingsay has a home here and so do you.” Then, my owner came and picked up Koda and Koko and took them to the car. “Dad!!” I yelled. “Mom!!” yelled Kingsay. “Kido, don’t worry about me,” said Koda, “just be brave and take care of your brother.” “Kingsay, I will always love you,” said Koko, “take care of yourself

I should just stop counting the houses. I’m just kidding myself. I’ll never be adopted. They are sending me to a new home today. But this one is different from the rest. Apparently a family in America is interested in adopting a Russian girl. They are shipping me off for a yearlong trial run. I hear they were expecting a child. But they will quickly realize that with Russia you take what you can get. In a week I’ll be sixteen. They assigned me an English teacher. I’m getting pretty good. He says I should start writing in English too. So I guess now would be as good a time as

There she was, tan with blue eyes and brown points. Sitting there was my Queen of the House cat.

It was a frosty day. I felt a cold breeze blowing on my face. I saw children running around in the snow wearing matching hats and gloves. I noticed the moving van maneuvering its way to my driveway. I dragged my feet through the deep snow to the moving van.

I am a completely different person now than I was back when I was 4 years old. I will do my best to make this long story short.

The birth of a girl has never been a cause for celebration in China, and

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

Idaho Code, Policy § 16-1514A of International Adoption should make some minor adjustments due to the decrease in international adoption numbers over the years. This policy should be slightly altered in the timeline of the international adoption process. It should then be amended or be made available for other states to adopt into their Statutes or Constitution.

The key issue in the scenario is whether the unmarried biological father of a child born out of wedlock can acquire parental rights and responsibilities and if he can withdraw his given consent to the child’s adoption. Adoption is regulated by the Children’s Act (“CA”), which defines adoption as a situation where a child has been placed in the permanent care of an adoptive parent as stipulated by a court adoption order. These proceedings are to be done to protect the best interests of the child, as stipulated by s19(1) of the CA and s28(2) of the Constitution. This essay will argue that Y can acquire parental rights and responsibilities over his child by proving paternity, despite him and X never being married or in a long-term partnership.

“There is no real ending. It’s just the place where you stop the story.” This is a quote written by Frank Herbert. This quote stood out to me because it showed me that even though you may have ended a paper, that does not mean it is the ending of the emotions and lessons you learned from the experience. Not all assignments may stand out to you, but I believe that everyone has one experience that impacts them in a large way. My experience that impacted me in a large way was a when I wrote about my adoption that had rocked my world from the day I was born, having people understand something important to me, and it was not based on the grade but the experience of it.