The Benefits Of 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.

The adoption process can be really long and drawn out. For young children, who do not have strong grasp of the concept of time, learning that you want to adopt a child before you know that you can will make the process stretch out endlessly for your

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 people believe that international adoptions are a positive thing, and help provide a brighter future for the children they adopt. However, many countries have strict laws on international adoptions. The article Home Alone ventures to say that, "poor countries should fix their adoption systems so that, once domestic possibilities have been exhausted, foreigners can step in" (Home Alone). International adoptions can sometimes be tricky. Many countries have constantly changing laws on international adoption. "Adoption laws change from year to year, and from country to country. Changes in intercountry adoption bans and regulations in different countries may cause unexpected challenges for prospective international adoptive parents." (Child Welfare Information Gateway). Often times many international adoptions can become corrupt. Children are sometimes smuggled across borders. "If the children travel through an official border the adult who accompanies them needs to have paperwork, but in its absence a bit of money in an envelope does the trick"

The image of an American family has changed dramatically over the last fifty years. American families are no longer modeled after the Cleavers. International adoption has contributed to this changing family view, bringing in children who are not biologically related to their parents and often of a different race. This new American image has helped eliminate race related issues. So, what is the controversy with international adoption? Children are the future of a country; children are human resources. If a country is losing their children to international adoption; the county is losing the gifts and talents that are irreplaceable in those children. Intercountry adoption should not be a viable adoption source because this process does not adequately benefit those involved, international adoption exploits poor children and hurts their countries of origin.

This is likely correlated with Australia’s overall decline in intercountry adoptions. Since the Hague convention was implemented, adoptions from Australian citizens declined by approximately 74%. In addition to this, 94% of adoptees that came from overseas were from Asia, 6% were from South/Central America, and there were no finalised adoptions from Africa or other regions. This distribution reflects the number of countries in each region with which Australia has an adoption program, and the characteristics of these programs. As well as this, the typical waiting period for families who adopted a child from overseas in 2014-15 was a period of over five years. It would undoubtedly be beneficial not only to Australian citizens desiring to adopt, but also to an immense number of orphaned children, if the Hague convention reached African countries, or made it easier to adopt from those countries that are not under the convention

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

There are two types of adoption; these are out of country and in country adoption. Out of country adoption is when you adopt a child or baby out of the country that you live in. In country adoption is when you adopt a child or baby in the same country that you are a citizen of. Adoption is a long and stressful process with both types. There is two ways for both with an agency and with a lawyer/private.

The countries which sent the highest number of children for adoption were China, Russia, Ethiopia, Columbia, and Ukraine. However, over the years, the total number of annual adoptions from these countries has declined steadily. A number of reasons are responsible for the decline, including tighter governmental regulations, bans on adoptions from select countries to select countries, as well as longer waiting periods and increasingly strict requirements. For instance, Russia has had a series of intercountry adoption scandals in the United States, including deaths of Russian children from child abuse by the adoptive families in the United States. China has made administrative changes and created difficult requirements for prospective adoptive parents to meet in order to complete an adoption and shifted mainly to releasing children with special needs for international adoption. Further, Guatemala is notorious for its multiple failures related to human rights abuse, including child

Adoption provides the opportunity for children to be raised in a healthy environment in cases where their biological parents can’t provide for them nor are they sufficiently capable of raising a child and taking responsibilities. Adoption gives children the opportunity to get the resources necessary to thrive which the parents provide security, education, protection, and skills needed for success. They overall provide comfort creating a lifelong relationship with the child despite the circumstances that has led to them being adopted. However, despite the positive experience that is life changing not only for the child, but as well as for the parents, there are myths that do prevent people from adopting. These myths deny the opportunity of a

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

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 is absolutely nothing wrong with a childless couple wanting to adopt a baby—it would certainly be a wonderful, life-changing decision for both the parents and the child—but this still leaves a fairly large group of older children without a home to call their own. “Because of changes in legislation and policies regarding child welfare, increasing numbers of older children are being placed for adoption. Many of these children are defined as having ‘special needs’ and include children who are at risk for physical, emotional, or behavioral problems” (Schweiger). Statistics today show that the majority of children put up for adoption are said to have special needs, which could be any number of things that might make finding a home more difficult for them: they could be a racial minority, have emotional or physical issues, be of an older age, have siblings that cannot be separated from them, have behavioral problems, or possess a record of difficulty in past adoptive placements (Wind). All of these children are desperately in need of a family to call their own, although some children—such as those who are of an older age or those who have siblings that they do not wish to be split up from— have a significantly more difficult time finding one. Infertile couples are clearly the more traditional adoptive parents, but it would certainly be impossible for every child to find a home if they were the only group looking to adopt. According to Rene Hoksbergen, the