Everyone loves a heartwarming adoption story, but many people and our government believe that a family should be kept together at all costs. The United States spends millions of dollars each year on foster care, parenting classes, and legal costs to keep children with their biological parents or relatives. UNICEF also spends millions of dollars internationally to keep children in their home countries, even though those children may spend their childhoods in an orphanage until they age out of the system. People assume that domestic and international adoption are broken systems and sometimes they are. For example, people may adopt a child and be unprepared for the physical, psychological, medical, and social challenges that child may carry
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In domestic adoption there are mounds of paperwork and endless court dates and legal issues. International adoption requires not only the mounds of paperwork, and translators, but background checks, fingerprinting for the FBI, waiting periods and expensive travel. But the end result is better than anything. When you get adopted it can motivate you to work hard for multiple reasons, you may not have come from a good background, but you have been given a chance to have a better life. You also may have to excel in school or at work in general just to survive, and when you work hard it gives you a big reward, In the story “Blue Collar Brilliance” Rose writes about how working a blue collar job is hard work. Rose writes about how when you work “in the blue collar workplace, directions, plans and reference books rely on illustrations, some easily understand and others, like blue prints, that require training to interpret”. (167) This means that you not only get work from experience but the harder you work, the more experience you get with what you are trying to accomplish. Rose also writes about how a waitress will serve seven to nine tables and is responsible for all the people and orders at the table. While during adoption you have to fill out tons and tons of paper work and go through a background check just so you are able to take this child home with you. On top of that you may also have to travel and go to court, the …show more content…
For example, you have to be very dedicated to the child, and to your work. And when you get adopted you also have to be dedicated, because you have been given a chance to live a great life. You have to dedicate yourself to do better things and work hard and dedicate yourself to live the life you truly want. In the story “Blue Collar Brilliance” . Rose writes about being a blue collar worker and the importance of them in our society. He uses a waitress as an example to show us how hard it really is to be a blue collar worker and all the dedication you have to have. You also have to be dedicated to every part of your job, this involves a lot of dedication. When you become adopted it is a true blessing that people take for granted sometimes. It gives you a new chance at life, the parents have to be dedicated to you as you to them. When you get adopted you may have a hard past, why not dedicate yourself to become a better person and live a life you are happy with. Rose writes about how “customers who entered the restaurant with all sorts of needs, from physiological ones, including the emotions that accompany hunger, to a sometimes complicated desire for human contact”.
In domestic adoption there are mounds of paperwork and endless court dates and legal issues. International adoption requires not only the mounds of paperwork, and translators, but background checks, fingerprinting for the FBI, waiting periods and expensive travel. But the end result is better than anything. When you get adopted it can motivate you to work hard for multiple reasons, you may not have come from a good background, but you have been given a chance to have a better life. You also may have to excel in school or at work in general just to survive, and when you work hard it gives you a big reward, In the story “Blue Collar Brilliance” Rose writes about how working a blue collar job is hard work. Rose writes about how when you work “in the blue collar workplace, directions, plans and reference books rely on illustrations, some easily understand and others, like blue prints, that require training to interpret”. (167) This means that you not only get work from experience but the harder you work, the more experience you get with what you are trying to accomplish. Rose also writes about how a waitress will serve seven to nine tables and is responsible for all the people and orders at the table. While during adoption you have to fill out tons and tons of paper work and go through a background check just so you are able to take this child home with you. On top of that you may also have to travel and go to court, the …show more content…
For example, you have to be very dedicated to the child, and to your work. And when you get adopted you also have to be dedicated, because you have been given a chance to live a great life. You have to dedicate yourself to do better things and work hard and dedicate yourself to live the life you truly want. In the story “Blue Collar Brilliance” . Rose writes about being a blue collar worker and the importance of them in our society. He uses a waitress as an example to show us how hard it really is to be a blue collar worker and all the dedication you have to have. You also have to be dedicated to every part of your job, this involves a lot of dedication. When you become adopted it is a true blessing that people take for granted sometimes. It gives you a new chance at life, the parents have to be dedicated to you as you to them. When you get adopted you may have a hard past, why not dedicate yourself to become a better person and live a life you are happy with. Rose writes about how “customers who entered the restaurant with all sorts of needs, from physiological ones, including the emotions that accompany hunger, to a sometimes complicated desire for human contact”.