The Pros And Cons Of Adoption

Adoption is the action or fact of being adopted. International adoption is a type of adoption in which an individual or couple becomes the legal and permanent parent(s) of a child who is a native of a different country. The United States has the most domestic and international adoptions each year. Most adoptions to the United States come from China, Ethiopia, and Ukraine (Top 3 Countries). International adoption, especially through Afghanistan, is a long and complicated process.

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

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.

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

When an individual or family decides to adopt children or a child through intercountry adoption the individuals/ families must make certain that they are following all rules and guidelines set forth by the HCIA if applicable, to the country in which the individual or family is adopting. It is equally important for the adopting country to make certain that the child is being adopted for the right reasons, however it is something that it hard to gauge as a Social Work or adoption agency. Globally Social Worker has a vast set of responsibilities as practitioners of social justice. Intercountry adoption is just one sector in which Social Workers play a vital role, in the field of Social Work this is why aiding in developing policies are so important.

In this article, I should argue two sides of the ethnic adoption, both negative and positive ones. But in my point of view, I believe the ethnic adoption has more positive effects than its drawbacks. First of all I shall introduce the phenomenon of ethnic adoption, then I shall list some negative effects and challenges on the adopted children and their adopting family. Finally, I shall analyze the positive influence which the adopted children and the adoptive parents will achieve in their ethnic adoption.

Although some people argue that people should not be able to adopt international because of money. Despite this idea, That reason is absolutely not valid because people can always get a loan and if the adoption caretakers only care about money, then they don’t need to sell children. For example, article “Overseas Orphans.” claims that children who get adopted learn love. “Providing a loving and safe environment.” (Green,, n.p.) In other words love from a family is greater than a lot of things. Additionally, according to article “The Evangelical Orphan Boom.” claims that children who get adopted are cared for. Adoption also embodied a more holistic "pro-life" message -- caring for children outside the womb as well as within. (The Evangelical Orphan Boom,, n.p.) Basically adoption is spectacular for a caring home. Lastly, according to “Acting Out the Role of Single Mom.” claims that adoption is great for cultural. “Wanted to bring people into our lives and thought we needed a cultural medium to accomplish that.” ( Hyung-sook,, n.p.) What this means is parents want to bring children into their culture. Therefore, It is clear to see, It is very important to have a family because of love, care, and culture in a

In past years a rate of international adoption increased by approximately 16% from 1998 to 2007 (Selman 2009, 576). Figure 1 shows the rate of international adoption increased dramatically from approximately 32000 to 45000 children in 1998- 2004 years; then it has started to decrease. Such big numbers in the rate of international adoption and popularity of it raises more and more positive and negative concerns. The whole society started to pay more attention to it, asking questions and raising ethical dilemma of international adoption. The importance of this topic is significant, since children should be considered as the most precious parts of every nation. Country’s well-being includes not only economic stability and military force, but children’s happiness as well. Especially the future and happiness of abandoned children depends on international adoption. Accordingly, taking into account rate of intercountry adoption and its current problems the topic is relevant nowadays.

The final adoption method is an independent adoption. “An independent adoption is an adoption facilitated by those other than caseworkers associated with an agency.” This can be a person who is a physician, or just an attorney. In an independent adoption, the selection over the placement is entirely the families involved. A separate adoption is not necessarily an open adoption. An open adoption consists of a certain amount of consecutive contact with birth and adoptive families. The adoptive and birth parents both have to agree and be on the same term of to what the birth parents' role is in future communication. The birth mother and father have to obey by the adoptive parents' rules about future communication. The adoptive parent has the right to say that they don’t want the birth parents to see the child during certain adoptions.

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

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

The disadvantages outweigh the advantages of terminating parental rights because the state thinks only about the well being of the child. The state should not be terminating parental rights because there are psychological issues with the child while being adopted, their schoolmates or friends believe they are socially unacceptable to them, and the birth parents are traumatized by their loss of one or more children (Impact=Birth Parents). In the U.S. 397,122 children are living without permanent families in the foster care system. 101,666 of these children are eligible for adoption, but nearly 32% of these children will wait over three years in foster care before being adopted. On any given day, over 415,000 children are living in the U.S. foster care system and the number has been rising. Nearly 108,000 of these children are eligible for adoption and they will wait, on average, four years for an adoptive family.

Adoption is a wonderful and rewarding way to grow a family. When you open your heart and house to a child through adoption, you make an everlasting commitment. It is an important decision that requires thought and discussion among the entire family. Adopting a child is without a doubt a life changing experience that requires patience and dedication. This experience allows families to change a child’s life who one day may have thought that they would never be loved. Parents who adopt from infertility have already felt what loss and disappointment feels like due to not being able to bear a child. Many times these same parents have experienced prior miscarriages or even unsuccessful fertility clinics. For them, the opportunity to adopt is a

     Adoption is metamorphosing into a radical new process that is both sweeping the nation and changing it. But this process is not an easy one, there are many steps to go through. Through research it is made a lot easier. Adoption is a also a highly visible example of a social institution that has benefits from and been reshaped by both the Internet and the exponential growth of alternative lifestyles, from single to transracial to gay. It is accelerating our transformation into a more multicultural society; even as it helps redefine out understanding of “family.” The process includes three main steps including a type of adoption, the techniques for location a baby for adoption, arranging

“There are no unwanted children. Just unfound families.”, a quote from the National Adoption Center. Do you think adoption should be encouraged? This is a good question because we need know that adoption is a good thing and it’s a blessing to someone’s family and to a child’s life. Adoption is good because it’s a blessing to a married couple that can’t grow babies. It also gives the child being adopted a better life and a new beginning. The problem is that there are children and teens that need a new family, and that are suffering at home. The cause to this is that their parents are neglecting them and abandoning them. The solution would be adoption, and giving them to families that care.