This report explains what adoption is. It includes the explanation of the differences between fostering and adoption, major causes of adoption, adopting children of different ages (babies, schoolchildren, and adolescents), adopting a disabled child, adopting emotionally, physically or sexually abused child and psychological consequences being adopted children. Furthermore, the procedure of adoption in Turkey was explained in details. This report also contains statistics for adoption and a research conducted in the field of gay, lesbian, transsexual parenting when adopting a child. This topic was chosen by our group members because adoption is a very important and sensitive issue. From our perspective, everyone should be informed about adoption …show more content…
Adoption is a legal procedure in which all the parental duty is transferred to the adopters. The judicial ties of adopted child is got through from the biological parents to the adoptive parents and the child becomes a whole member of new family (Donnellan,1999).
Differences Between Adoption and Fostering
There are some important differences between adoption and fostering. Adoption is a child to become complete and permanent member of a new family, this is a legal process. Conversely, fostering is to let a child live with a family until circumstances become suitable for the child to return their own family, live independently, positioned for adoption. Fostering is a temporary regulation (Donnellan,1999).
Major Causes of Adoption
Infertility is one of the most common reasons of adoption is infertility. Couples who sre not able to have a child of their own, they might choose adoption.
Being adopted themselves; sometimes people who are adopted as children choose adoption.
Religious reasons; several religions promote adoption.
Environmental reasons; for some people adoption obtain the opportunity to parent children who are already in the world. The reason is they believe that the world has too much population, and each new person will be responsible for a new carbon footprint in the
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specification) should be taken, the couples should be married at least for 5 years or the both of the couples has to be at least 30 years old (Çocuk Hizmetleri Genel