Cassandra Clare stated, ¨Family is more than blood¨. The people you call family do not have to share the same blood. Family is the people who are there in the highest and lowest parts of a person's life. International adoption should not be an option in the adoption process, people should only get the choice to adopt in their own country. Many hardships come within the adoption process, there is stress put on the adopters and adoptees. If the adopters do not fill out the paperwork correctly, children will later not know where they come from. Another side to international adoption will give abandoned children a better home but this process comes with many hardships on the adopters and adoptee; also, adopting young children will not allow them to know who they are. …show more content…
The adopters have to find an adoption agency and then fill out paperwork. They will help you figure out where you want to adopt from. Paying for the adoption can be extremely expensive. People can spend up to $20,000 to $50,000 when adopting internationally (Freivalds, 2018, p. 2). Adoption can have outraging costs, people do not realize how expensive it is. International adoptions have dropped in the past years; more than 60 percent. This is because some countries, such as Guatemala and Russia, are no longer allowing international adoptions. (Freivalds, 2018, p. 1). The more countries stop allowing international adoptions, there will be less and less countries to choose from. ¨The practice of adopting children from abroad began in the 1940s, just after World War II, when large numbers of children had been orphaned, abandoned or separated from their parents as a result of the war in Europe.¨(author?, 2010, p.). After World War I, there were many children that became orphans and later adoption was