Adoption In Third World Countries

third-world-countries are cheaper and easier to adopt than others because of their lifestyle. Referring to the topic, “Intercountry Adoption”, “millions of children across the world live without the love and protection of a family. In the United States alone, over 500,000 children live in our foster care system, and approximately 115,000 of them are waiting to be adopted.” What makes a child eligible for adoption in other countries is the act of being an orphan. An orphan is a child of any age who does not have parents. Children can become orphans if their parents are killed, or if they are given up by their parents. Third world countries suffer more than first world countries. Adopting from third world countries are helping children more than …show more content…
Creating a family does not mean two or more people who are related by blood, but anyone who is there, loving and caring of one another. Single people who feel the need and want of having a family deserve that right just as any couple. Adopting a child is giving a chance of a family to both the adoptive parent and the adopted child. Adoption is all about second chances, and the sad truth is that many children may never get that chance of feeling the love and nurture that they deserve. Adoption should not be gender, age, or race specific because children of all ages, genders, and races deserve to have a family just as much as any other child in the world. “It is not a cultural adjustment to adopt as a single parent. The choice to adopt rather than give birth to a child is a personal one.” (Johnson). Adoption is a legal process by which adults take in a child as their own son or daughter who was not conceived by them (The World Book Encyclopedia). Children whom are adopted are given the same rights as any other child apart of a family, such as property rights. DNA has absolutely nothing to do with having a family. Family is about who is there for one another, not whose blood is the same. Sheryl crow explained to Weller that her adopted sons, Wyatt and Levi, understand that they came from different people and that they also believe that God put them together (Weller). Single-parent families have more control over situations in their lives due to the fact that the parent only has them and their child to think about. Two-parent families may have arguing between parents in stressful situations. Adoptive single parent families have unique advantages. Reasons being that children who may have went through a trauma experience or have difficulties with attachment, feel emotionally more safe in a one-parent family than in a two-parent family. The bond between parent and child is everlasting. In order to