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The Pros And Cons Of Adoption

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Adoption is a legal action to have a child that is not born to the family. The child is released from their parents for legal reasons like neglect or the child is not wanted. These babies and children can be put in foster care or can be adopted. Many children from different age groups can be adopted. Should the child know of their adoption, or should their adoption be kept a secret? There are appropriate ways to let a child know they are adopted and to answer the following questions and address their feelings. This topic is very personal to me because my parents had adopted a baby boy when he was just two days old. My parents and I often talked about telling him that he is adopted and when he would be ready to learn this information. This paper asks if there is a right time to tell a child; is there an appropriate age to disclose this information? Children who are adopted can have many things going through their mind. Some children may believe they were not wanted. The children may also feel that they have done something wrong. At one time or another most of us have felt unsure of ourselves, feared rejection, and might have even felt disconnected from …show more content…

There have are two recent studies about adopted adults. One study was done with adoptees that were Scottish and the other on California adoptees had similar results (Kowai and Schilling, 354-55). They found a person was more likely to look for information if they were female and the only child in the family. Their knowledge of adoption came late in their life, and it was traumatic to learn about their adoption. Another similarity between the two studies is adoptees know little about their birth parents. Some adopted adults have started looking for information about their birth parents because they may want to get married and have children of their own and want to know their family

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In Lorraine Dusky’s article, Adoption Laws Protect -- And Hurt, she tells the story of being a young mother: “When I surrendered my daughter to adoption nearly five decades ago, I was a fearful, teary young woman, desperate to keep my identity secret. I’d quit my job and gone into hiding - even my family didn’t know. I was one of the millions of women who relinquished their children during what has become known as the Baby Scoop Era - from the end of World War II to the mid 70’s when the shame of unwed pregnancy all but dictated that while, middle-class women like myself give up their babies.” This mother’s story shows that many fearful women give up their children for adoption. Once Dusky gave them up, she wanted her identity secret and wanted no one to know who she was.

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(2007) framework on Microaggressions as applied to adoption. Currently the research on Adoption Microaggressions has been limited to adolescent adoptees and their adoptive families. As such the intent is to extend the research on adolescent adoptees experience of Microaggressions to the adult adoptee population. Garber (2014) and Garber and Grotavent (2015) culled from interviews with 156 adolescents in the Minnesota/Texas Adoption Research Project (MTARP) and found 15 themes related to adoption microaggressions (see table 1). The found the most common theme impacting adolescents’ perception of themself, as adoptees was “Silence about adoption” with 222 incidences mentioned in their interviews.

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When Belinda Behague was only 9 days old, her whole life quite literally changed. Because of this, when standing with her mother, father and brother, most don’t think much of it, however, some people may begin to notice that they look nothing alike. Out of the over 1,500 children adopted in the year 1975, Behague was one of them after being given to her loving parents in a closed adoption. Knowing about her adoption since a child was always something Behague considered a good thing. She believes that is the best way to do it, as she had friends in high school who were told at the age of 15 when their parents thought they were ready.

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The adult adoptees suffer from a loss of cultural identity, loneliness, confusion, low self esteem, and feelings of shame, etc. Many of the adoptees learned about their true heritage later in life, since birth records could not be opened unless both the child and parent consented. This caused emotional distress and frustration in the adoptees. Some of the adoptees were placed in homes with loving and supporting families, but they “could not provide culturally specific education and experiences essential to the creation of healthy, Indigenous identities”. Some of the adoptees reported getting physically, sexually, or other types of  abuse.

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I have gone through life associated with ownership and being talked of as if I am property. My childhood years of education have consisted of alternative assignments to those in regards to family history or the heredity unit of science classes. Within the faces of young children who stand with their adoptive families, I see a piece of myself and hope they will not struggle to endure the insensitivity to the culture of adoption and that their sense of identity will only be strengthened. I lacked an understanding of what would come of being a trans-racial adoptee and grew blind to ignorance at a young age, never gaining insight on the subject at hand. Although the culture of adoption has created uncomfortable and unfamiliar years, it also led me to challenge convention, embrace individuality, and find unconditional love from an early

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In all cases it should be the child or children choice whether to know their parents. For kids who have closed adoptions the adoptive parents and the birth parents will only stay in touch until the adoption is over. A lot of the time the children or child will not know about their birth parents until the age of 18, sometimes even longer. (“Open vs. Closed Adoption” 1). Open adoption can get rid of the anonymity of the adoption.

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For the rest of his life, my father lived in content of not knowing his biological parents. There is a difference between a closed adoption and an open adoption, in a closed there is “no sharing of information”, whereas open allows the adopted “to have a one-on-one relationship to the birth parents” (Moe 38,

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Who knew that something so beautiful could be so difficult? Adoption led me to a season of surrender, hurting, and healing, but most importantly, a place of grace and perception. Soon after my fourteenth birthday, my family invited a young boy who had been struggling in his original, adopted home to come live with us. Adopted from Ethiopia at the age of 10, Elias arrived in Texas, only to be sent to my family in Kentucky one year later.

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In an adoption, people like to tell you that it is best to adopt a child that is still a baby so they you don’t have to struggle later o in life and questions about being adopted. Adoption is a very long process and can be stressful. Overall adoption is a great way to help others and possibly yourself. You may go through some problems with the child you adopt. At a certain age, some children figure out that they are adopted which brings up many questions to the adopted parents.

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When a child is available for adoption, their state of mind and well being should be highly considered in the family that is currently wanting to adopt them, More than 60% of children in foster care

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