International Adoption Pros And Cons

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Professor Catherine Choy’s lecture on the artistic expressions of international adoption happened to interact with her own experience when she lived in Minnesota. Throughout her lecture, she mentioned how adoption in Asian countries has increased within the Western Hemisphere in the 20th century. She brings out both pros and cons of people adopting internationally and how celebrities adopt such even when they have kids of their own, for example Jim Bouton who knew how difficult it would be adopting internationally. Professor Choy made it clear that she had beliefs similar to those of the ISS-USA.
As the U.S. was emerging from the cold war within the 1950’s-1970’s, it was seen that more families were adopting mixed race children. She mentioned

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