Essay On International Adoption

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Adoption and the Birth Of Happiness: Pursuing International Adoption If you knew that children in other nations were being abused and held in institutions after being matched for adoption, would you want to give them life? The rate of international adoptions are declining as the number of orphans are being outnumbered for care. Adoption pursues happiness throughout families and potentially fills the voids of emptiness. Cross-border adoption has reached a goal to help children in poor countries, and in institutions, to provide a loving family to care for them. Americans should pursue adoptions from countries with known regulation abuses because children in other countries have already been abandoned or parentless. Many are locked into institutions …show more content…

Also according to Dozier, in Institutional Care For Children, at times, especially during periods of economic hardship, abandoned babies have outnumbered those available to care for them through informal systems of care (Dozier 1). This reveals that more parents are unable to care for their children and others near and far from these families are also unable. In the article it states, “At one time, abandoned and orphaned children were typically placed with neighbors or in city almshouses or indentured into apprenticeships (Dozier 1). Supporting the fact that conditions placed upon these children are unfit and unstable. Another leading reason of abandonment can occur at birth and …show more content…

What this argument fails to consider is the fact that even prior to adoption, countries may have already been dishonest and corrupt. Abuse throughout the life of a child is negative, regardless of which country it occurs in. Americans wanting to adopt, will not allow their child to go through the trauma that they faced back home. Corruption is not encouraged when their are other factors that influence and lead unbenefited conduct in other nations and throughout countries. The argument overlooks how regulations are strictly enforced through international adoption. International adoption actually saves the children from the challenges of facing life in