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The Pros And Cons Of Adoption

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As the ideas of what a family could be changes, so does the thoughts of what makes of a family.Studies have shown that “4 in 10 Americans” have considered adoption at some point in their lives, however when it comes to actually adopting “research indicates that only about 1 in 50 women have actually ever applied to an adoption agency” (L.,) When it does come to actually adoptions we have seen that there are more open adoptions than ever before. With open adoptions “now the most widely practiced form of adoption in the United States”(Adoptions) comes with many pros and cons. Pros of the increase towards open adoptions are that of its allowance for the child, in question of adoption, to have some form of relationship with their birth parent, compared to that of a closed adoption where there is no contact until the child is 18. Allowing for an open adoption and having “some type of healthy relationship with the birth parents” (Adoptions), in the long run, have a chance to help the child’s growth in “Identity Development” as well as their “Self-Esteem” (Adoptions). This is because, unlike closed adoptions, the child won’t have to go through like wondering why they weren’t enough for their birth parent, the children will have a better understanding of why they were put up for adoption. As open adoptions become more popular so does LGBT adoption and single parent adoption. “Unmarried households headed by same-sex couples increased 80 percent 2010...from a decade earlier to almost 650,000,..estimated 25 percent of those households are raising children” (The New) lgbt parenting has seen a tremendous increase over the last 30 years. Even single parent adoptions have become more frequent as it has become “more widely accepted” (Adoption) and encouraged among adults. Being a single parent or a gay parent now is

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Open adoption gives the adoptive parents better ways to answer the questions of the children or child. Open adoption also can help the children or child to get why they were adopted. This is because concerns can be confronted by everyone who was there for the adoption. Although the adoptive parents could feel threatened by the open adoption it will benefit the children or child by the truth, clearness and the responsibility of this process. (Castellucci

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Social changes for adoptive parents include open adoption arrangements which is a particular kind of adoption where the biological and adoptive families can choose to stay in touch and have access to different levels of private information about one another but the adoptive parents can make decisions regarding the child’s culture, and the adoption process is a particular kind of adoption where culture, open adoption is becoming more common in today’s society. It is also crucial that the foster parent(s) retain the cultural identity and knowledge of the child as it is a huge part of the child’s sense of identity and is something to carry on from their birth family. Foster families feel a sense of community giving back, and parents want to make a difference. However, issues may arise with birth parents, family separation, new school rules, stress, and restraining orders. There is also a negative stigma attached to fostering due to troubled family backgrounds and misconceptions about government-paid foster parents.

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Introduction: Adoption is a beautiful process to provide a child who needs a loving home and family just that; however, one of the biggest controversies the adoption world is dealing with is the choice of transracial adoption. Transracial adoption is when a child is adopted by a family with a different racial or cultural background. In the article Promoting Same-Race Adoption for Children of Color written by Leslie Hollingsworth explains how adoption came about in 1940 during the end of WWII. By 1971 people started to oppose transracial adoption due to Black Children not fitting into the right family. The article explains how only black families can give the children emotional and psychological development to black children because of their

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Many different options exist for couples who either want children but cannot have them or couples who have children but do not want them. Adoption, being one of the more popular options, has developed into a law binding agreement between the government and the parents towards the child. Its original purpose during the ancient times was continuing the male family line, but modern adoption from a foreign country to the United States is a challenging process with much sacrifice needed. Adoption has both positives and negatives for not only the newly unorphaned child, but also for the single couple or family. Governments across the nation have worked with each other through The Hague Convention and other organizations to help children find a home.

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An important part of adoption is finding the right people who will be able to ensure the well-being and care of a child. However, even if a family meets all the necessary requirements and is able to fulfill the duties of raising a child, they can be turned away because of one small factor: ethnicity. Ethnicity was such a big deal that the government made adjustments to the adoption process, demanding the ethnicities of both parents and child be taken into account to ensure they would be compatible. Since then, those requirements have been revoked due to changing ideals of what it means to be a family. Family is a bond on love and togetherness and not just the same race, origin, or religion.

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