The Dirty Truth behind Foreign Adoption

One boy and one girl were adopted from a country with thousands of kids orphaned due to over 30 years of conflict (“Afghanistan”, “Ali Muhammad”). This may be because of the strictness as to who may adopt children in Afghanistan. There aren’t any age, residency, or marriage requirements for adopting a child in Afghanistan. Potential parents must be able to demonstrate a sufficient resources to raise and educate a child. Non-muslims are not allowed to adopt muslim children and potential parents must demonstrate to the child’s family in Afghanistan that they intend to raise the child with Islamic traditions and norms. Potential parents may be rejected if they have been convicted of crimes against public morality or chastity, have a bad reputation, do not have a legitimate income, have previously lost custody of the child, have been denied custody by the father or paternal grandfather of the child, or if they have any judicial

Ever wonder what adoption is like? There are many opinions about how people should view adoption and how they view it themselves. This is an ethical issue because many people view this differently according to their race, religion, family and even society can influence the way you view how adoption is too a person, There are two sides with ethical issues so in this paper, I will show you both sides of adoption.

adoptive parents meet with the birth mother (and father, if present) throughout the adoption process. Most of the time the birth mother actually chooses the adoptive parents from a selection of eligible candidates. Usually open adoptions are considered to be healthy for everyone involved, but sometimes adoptive parents can be nervous about their child’s interaction with the birth parents. International adoptions, on the other hand, are usually closed events where adoptive parents and adoptees have no contact with birth mothers or fathers (Reed & Walker, n.d.). Although many people might think that not having the birth parents involved would be easier and safer, it can actually lead to children to being sold on the black market or being sold in the sex trade. An example of this was in March 2007, when a Utah adoption agency called Focus on Children was charged in a Samoan child-laundering scheme. The Samoan parents were being tricked into believing that their children were being offered the opportunity to move to the U.S. to receive an education and then move back when they turned eighteen. On the other side of this, prospective adoptive parents in the U.S. were supposed to be receiving a permanent Samoan child (Reed & Walker, n.d.). Another example is that in very poor areas of the world, young girls are often given cash for getting pregnant, birthing the baby, and then giving it to a “baby broker” who then sell them for high fees to the international

I do not believe that cross-cultural adoption should be sanctioned, but it is an extremely controversial issue. I believe adoption agencies throughout the world and their governments must work together to create rigorous policy to ensure the safety of the children, and set a quality standard for parents looking to adopt. Sanctions are to impose a penalty, or threaten with a penalty for disobeying rules (Dictonary.com, 2017). I believe imposing sanctions on those looking to adopt would deter them from adopting at all, and that child may never be placed in a home. I believe that if cross-cultural adoption is an option for couples, then the culture heritage of that

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

Since the 1950s, the United States and other countries started a new way in the de-institutionalize the care of vulnerable children which is, close down orphanages in favour of substitute care and accelerated adoption. Besides, western countries started to give up their children without placing them for adoption, and thus, the need to operate large orphanages has decreased. These issues have resulted in a dramatic reduction of local orphans available for adoption, requiring many adoptive parents to orphanages in the Third World.

At a young age, parents tend to exercise how crucial it is not to talk to strangers in hopes of protecting their child from this cruel world, but what if your parents gave you to a stranger instead of shielding you from one. In the mid-1800s, many women began to advertise for someone to take their child and care for them in exchange for money due to being denounced for having a child outside of wedlock. As a result, baby “farming” or as we call it today, adoption came to be. Amelia Dyer was Britain’s most famous baby farmer of her time. People would pay for her to take their child and care for it when in reality she would pocket the money and either strangle the baby or let it starve to death.

The image of an American family 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 to reduce race related issues. Children are the future of a country. 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.

People in the U.S who want to adopt are being put on hold for long periods of time. “The sad reality is that adoptive parents are beggars with no “rights” in the process” ("Why So Many Families Who Want To Adopt, Can't”). International adoption agencies seem to take too much time and way too much money to help a child in need. The process feels as if it’s going nowhere. For the people trying to adopt, becoming a parent is all they want and are left eagerly waiting for a child when there's so much children who need a

Inter country adoption is becoming more prevalent amongst American citizens. The process of adopting a child from another country can be tedious, but the very particular precautionary measures and steps are set in place to ensure not only that the child’s best interest are at the center of the adoption but to also ensure that the adoption is legitimate in both the country of origin and in America. The process of adopting from countries that have ratified The Hague and non-Hague countries are different and will be outlined below.

While many organizations, such as Adopt Together, are putting forth an effort to reduce the price of adoption, it is not enough. Resources such as these are not well known. Therefore, many adoptive parents and potential donors are completely unaware that they exist. They try to face adoption without financial help and are unable to adopt. The solutions provided through grants, loans, tax credits, and crowdfunding platforms help many families but do not fully support the cost of adoption. For these solutions to work fully, more publicity would be required.

y point of argument I would like discusses with about international adoption. To support my ideas with a valid argument I will add some real stories from the magazine, web page, academic journal article, and my personal observation in this issue.

All around the world, babies are being born every several minutes, yet numerous people are also becoming homeless every several minutes, occasionally it is the newborn babies. Lately, various amounts of children have had their own children too, as a result of it not being illegal to have a child until you’re 18 or older. Thus, they’ve been needing extra homes or orphanages for the people who can’t provide for those kids. This is due to people saying it’s their own fault they’re pregnant, and that they need to either keep the child or hand it over to adoption. Although people dislike abortion as a result of people saying they would be ending a life… these people clearly haven’t researched enough on how deranged a child in an orphanage can become.

Human Trafficking weather it is Illegal adoption or just selling people is the largest growing trade. People don’t usually realize that it is going on because it is over looked or pushed under the rug. There are many people who help in recovering those who are trafficked.

According to the U.S. government and UNICEF, there are about 17.8 million children, globally, who have lost both parents. Of course, this is just an estimate, but it’s a high one. If the child doesn’t have another family member that can take them in, they’ll be put in foster care, or something of the like. There are so many children who are waiting to find a family, and so many people wanting to be a parent, so why are there still any children without homes? Many factors go into this, but a big one that makes someone ready to adopt pause is the the price. The money that goes into the adoption process should be lowered because the high prices discourage people to adopt, they lead to less children growing up with a family, and more children will grow up in foster care.