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Arguments Against Adoption

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Why should people adopt? Adoption is the act of making a person the parent to someone who is not his or her own child. To know that a child is being loved and is safe changes their view on the world. Once they felt alone and now they feel they have been found.
People wanting to become parents should adopt to provide a loving home to children who have emotional or physical challenges, The adoptees get to have family of their own if they couldn't have children themselves, and to help birth parents who are unable to provide for their child.

First of all, People who want to become parents give children who have emotional or physical challenges a proper home, love and a stable environment to live in. Most children in foster care …show more content…

There are many different cases to why a mother puts the child up for adoption. In other cases the child is taken away from CPS (Child Protective Services) or DYFS (Division of Youth and Family Services). This provides parents who cannot physically or emotionally take care of their child help. Drugs, and alcohol can be the remain to be a big reason. Another reason is teen pregnancy, when a single teen parent struggles between school or a job taking care of a child makes it harder. So instead of abandoning the child they choose to give the child a loving home to parents who can take care of them. Adoption can also help the birth mother by giving her a chance to receive an education or achieve other goals. There are also cases where the mother or parents per say don’t feel like they are ready or capable of taking care of the child. Children are a lot of work but do they deserve to be abandoned?

In conclusion, adoption changes the life of a child by providing a safe haven and love. Those who want to adopt in the future or have adopted provide a loving home for children and also get to expand on their family. Even helping those who can not provide for these children.
Now, Yes there are reasons why some choose not to adopt. For reasons like the cost, adoptees pay from 8,000 to 40,000 and that's only in the U.S. Overseas can cost between 15,000 to 30,000 according to the article “The cost of Adoption”

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