Harry Harlow, an American psychologist who is best known for his maternal separation experiment, proved that children need love and affection. In orphanages, infants and children do not receive the affection and attention needed to ensure the best developmental growth. This is what leads me to think that more people should adopt both within the United States and outside of the United States. There are millions of children sitting in orphanages waiting to be picked and taken to a home where they are shown love and affection. By adopting, children would be given a chance to become something, instead of spending their lives in an orphanage. The most important aspect of adoption is the fact that the children can become more psychologically sound. My dad and his older sister were both adopted, my dad at birth, and his sister at 6 months. …show more content…
Multiple couples in the world go through the struggles of infertility. Not everyone has the money to go through the extensive tests and procedures to do in vitro fertilization. Often, a surrogate is out of the question. With my experiences with those that have adopted around me and those that have adopted within my family, couples who adopt love those children as if they were their own, and those around do not know any different The problem some have with adoption is the child will not have the same genetics as the parents and the rest of the family, and some families are very adamant on continuing their gene pool. I understand their reasoning, but getting a child from birth will allow those people to really connect with that child and once they have raised them, they will love them as if they were from their own genes. Some mothers believe it would be hard to really connect with that child if the child does not physically grow inside of them, but from my experiences with adoption, that has never been an