The adoptive families have disadvantage of losing or investing a whole lot of money off of their pay checks to adopt a child, but children for whom the money is being invested can feel guilty when they do find out how much it actually cost to adopt them. Children are priceless and there are no price in the world that can buy them. Just because their adoptive families invested lots of resources to adopt them, it does not mean children needs to feel that they owe their parents, they do not need to feel like they were purchased. Children deserve to have a better life and have a family, but it is not morally right to put a cost on it. Nothing is free of cost in this world, to gain something we have to lose something, however there is no price on love and care.
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There are many questions about our child welfare system that have to be answered. We can solve them by providing better education to the foster care children, by helping the teens find jobs, by encouraging them not to drop out of school. Also, by listening to and acknowledging what the children in the system feel about certain things, what their perspectives are, and how they want to be treated. Listening to them encourages their capacity for self-expression, respects their rights, and helps them strengthen their social relationships and stay more active as citizens of our societies (Gilligan,42). To make the adoption system more effective and easy, the cost should be lowered, the process should be smoother, and the length of the process needs to be shortened. In addition, we need to make sure that the foster care and adopted children are safe and secure, and they know that they are as special as other children. Children in both systems need to be reminded often that they are as wanted and accepted as others are, and also that they are desirable members of our society. Although, attempting to solve all of America's foster care and adoption system issues are