The Importance Of Open Adoption

Every child needs a loving family, a house to live in, and a good education, right? According to Whittaker and Finley, a child can only receive these things by foreign adoption. Whittaker and Finley also believe that foreign adoption allows families to have children, and offers children more comfortable homes than they could have in their native nations. Also claimed by the two authors is that the Hague Convention has eliminated most illegal and unethical adoptions. I do not agree with the authors because children in the U.S. need the same resources such as a loving family, a house to live in, and a good education just as much as foreign children do. Also, I believe children can not be more comfortable in the U.S. than what their native nation

“I want to be like my adoptive mother, but my birth mother says I’m like her. I don’t know what to do or who I am. My whole life is messed up. It’s not my fault. It can’t be fixed,” said a girl adopted into an open adoption (Byrd). An open adoption is a process in which the birth parents and the adoptive parents know each other and are involved in the adopted child’s life. A closed adoption is when there is no contact at all and no identifying information is given between birth and adoptive parents (Byrd). While both are common to today’s society, closed adoptions allow opportunities for the adoptive parents to raise their kids without the interference of birth parents (Bender).

There are many sides and opinion about adoption, me coming from the adoption system highly agrees with adoption. In this paper, I 'm going to explain the history of adoption, the rules you have to follow, the pros and cons of adoption and the process of adoption, and stories of adoption. Also, I will talk and explain about the system and what could be improvements to the system.

About twenty years ago my Uncle Hosea had a son named Javion. He was the first boy out of all the girls my uncle had conceived, which made him very proud. However, due to some underlying circumstances, he was taken away from his mom and put into the system. He was somehow adopted and never seen again, nor has any information been given out to our family to help locate him. He had entered closed adoption, which is an irreversible system where parents give up their rights to know any information and right to ever take part in their children 's lives. The child is given a new home and grows up thinking the family raising them is their biological relatives. They never know anything about their true family or where they come from. They are mislead by this system of closed adoption, restricted from truth their own beginning, and lose touch with the family who brought them into this world. Children suffer tremendously from closed adoption, and because closed adoption has tougher policies, takes away many of children’s rights, puts a strain on biological families, distributes limited background family information, and strips identity, it should be abolished.

The aim of this study is to evaluate the Adoption and Safe Families Act of 2007. This act provides children waiting in foster care with permanent families through adoption. The states increased the number and proportion of adopted children that received adoption assistance because the child had a special need. The article goes over administrative data that indicates that states more diligently recorded the special needs of children as well as post adoption financial support and assistants. The paper reviews how some states found themselves in the contradictory position of promoting adoption while simultaneously cutting post- adoption support. In the next section of the article it outlines federal adoption incentives and funding for post- adoption

Design/Methodology: This exploratory design hopes to attain valuable insight on what types of post adoption services are available to families. This design is qualitative as it seeks to explore the types of services that are offered and if any have a positive influence in providing the necessary support to assist in the preservation of adoptive families. It is hoped that this results can provide a deeper understanding of which post adoption services are vital in aiding new adoptive parents to safeguard their forever family against possible challenges that lie ahead. Sampling: This study will utilize non probability convenience and purposive sampling as current or former foster parents of the Los Angeles child welfare system will be recruited through various post adoption service agencies. Eligible participants are individuals who have received post adoption services and finalized adoption with at least one child. According to Acharya et al. (2013), convenience and purposive sampling is beneficial when participation of individuals is needed to meet a certain criteria; individuals will also be easily located for the study. Two hundred former consumers of the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services, Post Adoption Services Unit (PAS) department will be invited to participate in the study via U.S. mail. The PAS unit offers post adoption services such as referrals and counseling to families to avoid family dissolutions which will return the child in the child

Open adoption is now the most commonly used type of adoption. This is because throughout the years people have seen the negative effects of a closed adoption. This does not go to say, in any way, that an open adoption is a flawless one. Open adoption is still considered a moderately new concept and there area number of kinks that facilitators are still on the way to fixing. “In the early days, every open adoption was a novel foray into exotic territory; and every adoption constituted an obvious opportunity to learn. Operating without the benefits of experience, we had no protocol; every decision required fresh thinking. Lacking precedent, we had no idea what ‘normal’ in open adoption and what was not. Happily, with the passage of time, the

If you are considering going through the process of adopting a child, you need to decide if you would like to have an open adoption. Open adoptions have become increasingly popular in recent years. Here are two ways an open adoption can give your child a better sense of themselves.

Generally speaking, any individual or entity that has the legal right to make decisions on behalf of a child or regarding the child’s care may place that child for adoption. Individuals who have this right typically include: birth parents, legal guardians, guardian ad litem, State departments of social services or child-placing agencies, etc. All states in the United States of America designate the persons or entities that have the authority to make adoptive placements.

The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Adoption defines adoption as the transfer of parental rights and obligations from one family to another. The adoptive parents assume all responsibilities of raising the child legally and financially, therefore severing all ties to the biological parents. The difference between a closed adoption and open adoption is when birthparents and the adoptive parents know nothing of each other. Records are usually sealed until the child becomes of age and chooses to open them. An open adoption is when the birthparents and the adoptive parents meet each other and come to a legal agreement concerning the exchange of pictures and letters and sometime visitation is allowed. This is where the conflict comes into play.

There are many women who, unfortunately, cannot conceive. These women suffer far beyond infertility. There are also many children who are awaiting adoption, suffering. Families seeking to adopt are looking for children because most can’t have their own. Some families seeking to adopt just want to offer these children a better life and give them a forever home. Adoption is a good deed, you’re putting children in homes and giving them love that they desire. Families on a tighter income who cannot conceive probably wouldn’t be able to afford to adopt, which is heart breaking. There are so many children who will never know the love of a parent due to how difficult it is to adopt in America.

Today there are many issues on the topic of adoption—should the child have rights to see his or her biological parents? Is it wrong to cut off all ties between the child and parent? What about the child’s past, and why was he or she adopted? These are all issues to be concerned with, along with many others. There are plenty of people who have thought on these issues and have even studied into it. Each case will have a different outcome, of course, but overall it seems to lean toward the fact that it should not be legally made mandatory for adoptive parents to allow biological parents’ access to the children they gave birth to.

Morgan's parents (Ashton and Shannon) are on drugs. Ashton and Shannon are both IV user. Ashton and Shannon used meth, heroin, marijuana, and pain pill (Xanax). Ashton was using drugs throughout her entire pregnancy. It is unknown if Ashton stopped using the drugs for delivery. Ashton might went to the doctor once during her pregnancy. Ashton has never shown a sonogram picture of the baby. Ashton has two other children (Tucker and unknown female child) that were taken by CPS. Because of her and Shannon's drug used. Tucker is lives with his maternal grandmother (Michelle), and his sister lived with her father and grandparent (unknown). Ashton has another baby (unknown) two years old. Ashton put the baby up for adoption two

In the last four decades, the concept of the American family has undergone a radical transformation, reflecting society¡¯s growing openness. Among all segments of society, there is a greater acceptance of a variety of family structures ¨C from single parenting to blended families to same sex parenting of children. The introduction of openness into the process of adoption offers new opportunities for children in need of a parent or parents and prospective parents wishing to create or expand their families. Meeting the requirements to become eligible to adopt no longer means being constrained by the conventions of an earlier generation.

When the average American citizen today thinks about the concept of adoption, what images are typically the first that come to mind? Although different people are sure to have equally as different experiences in this field, one picture continues to remain the most commonly-accepted. This image consists of a man and a woman who cannot have children of their own, a newborn baby, and a single mother who will certainly be unable to provide for the infant due to her young age, lack of financial support, or another variety of unfortunate circumstances. Making the decision to adopt a child is without a doubt one of the best options available for couples who are unable to conceive, but by thinking of adoption as nothing more than the fallback