Personal Narrative: The Face Of Adoption

`Have you ever wondered what it is like to be in or a part of the adoption process? Most people have different opinions on the whole system. Many think that the process is easy and they don’t actually know what most children go through. If more people understood the problems they face then child welfare wouldn’t be so difficult. Children come from broken or abusive households where treatment is horrible or to the point where they just remove the children.

The authors talk about their research of what has mostly affected the parties of adoption and how even the adoptive parents can struggle to feel like the child belongs to them.

I remember as a teenager thinking I never belonged to this family, and that I did not fit in, and I never would. I admit, not looking like everyone else in the family was difficult. It was not just the color of the hair. Going through life, not truly being attached with your real parent. For people who are raised by their real parents, this is not a big deal. They grow up knowing whose freckles they have, where they got that chin, why they are talented in different areas. For me, living without that knowing, was a huge deal. Maybe it doesn't sound important to you, but when you do not know the answers to those simple questions, it really bothers you. Those of us from open adoptions deal with knowing a very little if anything about our parents.

Since birth, my life has been very hard to understand but I've always been very open to whoever wants to know about it. On January 13, 2003 I was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma. My parents were Anita Gomez and Billy hunt. I then moved to Georgia a while later, and then made my way to Calhoun.

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 beginning, International adoption programs in poor nations like that of Ethiopia, started with a few honest humanitarian adoptions, rescuing orphans from hopeless circumstances. However, once the news of an overflow of healthy adopted children out a specific country reach Western countries, expectant parents that desire healthy children begin to sign up for more children than the small, poor country can adequately supply. As a result of these demands,

Previously, I thought that adoption was easy. This course has taught me that it is not as simple as it seems, and there are many different issues that need to be considered. Adoption is an amazing gift for couples who are unable to have children. There are many problems that couples face when they cannot conceive. It is heart-wrenching for couples who need to endure years of trying and hoping, only to see their efforts fail or end in miscarriages. Thankfully, there is a way for these childless couples to become parents through adoption. “There are approximately 1.5 million adoptees under the age of 18 years in the United States, accounting for just over 2% of the population” (Nickman et al., 2005). Though we may take fertility for granted,

About 135,000 children are put up for adoption each year, and only 4% of women with unwanted pregnancies put their child up for adoption. People are not taking advantage of this wonderful opportunity to put a kid up for adoption if they know they are physically or mentally not able to raise their child. Instead abortions are happening. Adoption helps couples who cannot conceive a child on their own and want a family. It helps women who are too old to have kids, but want to help a child in need of a family, love, and protection. Adoption is an amazing thing and is the better

“It’s about my entire life, it’s not just about my childhood. I want to know that I’m going to have someone to walk me down the aisle. That I’m going to have grandparents for my children.” -Mary (a girl in foster care). Adoption is a short term solution, and causes problems that has a lasting effect on a child. Adoption is the act of taking in a child to raise as your own. On paper, it sounds likes like an act of kindness, but adoption has many issues tied to it. Due to the many problems of adoption, such as the environment in a foster home, the people that lives in the home, mental instability, the process of adoption, same-sex parents, and transracial adoption, a child that experienced it could have an impact their life negatively, as

My adoption: In this video I cried like a baby because I felt the mother’s passion love strength and pain through the video. The words that spoke to me is when the mother stated adoption isn’t a birth mothers rejection but an unconditional love that inspires her to put herself last.

This past December I volunteered through United Way for Adopt-A-Family. My job was to wrap the gifts for the families that wanted it. Many families did want the gifts wrapped, in my time wrapping I realized how many families that are in of assistance. Some did not ask for much, but others did ask for more. For Adopt-A-Family, the families request what they need for to provide an amazing Christmas morning. This day really opened my eyes to a number of families that there are out there who are in need of assistance in ensuring that each child gets the Christmas that they deserve. Having this eye-opening experience makes me want to reach out to all of the families that I possibly can that may not have gotten assistance whether they did not ask

Adoption, an extensive process, allows individuals who have been given up or taken away from their biological parent(s) the opportunity to be welcomed into the loving and warm embrace of adoptive parent(s). Adopting a child is a such a unique experience and it takes a person with a lot of heart and courage to do so. Carried in Our Hearts: THE GIFT OF ADOPTION: Inspiring Stories of Families Created Across Continents written by Dr. Jane Aronson is a beautiful tribute to the process of adoption. Dr. Jane Aronson is a pediatrician who strongly advocates for children domestically and internationally. Her focus is on adoption medicine, which she has been doing for over thirty years. She created the Worldwide Orphans Foundation which aims to

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

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

There are common ordeals and situations that can trouble a family emotionally, physically, and psychologically. Adoption is one situation a family must encounter when a child is born without a proper system of support to sustain life after birth. The causes for a family to make a heartfelt decision to place a child for adoption can have dramatic effects on the birth parents, adoptive parents, and child (Adoptee), even if the decision is meant for the best.