Issues with Adoption
Adoption has existed for decades and originated in the United States, and since then it has come a long way and improved. When adoption was first made it had many unreasonable rules and guidelines, such as a law made in Rome stated that “France's Napoleonic Code made adoption difficult, requiring adopters to be over the age of 50, sterile, older than the adopted person by at least fifteen years, and to have fostered the adoptee for at least six years.” (Wikipedia). So in the start many issues in the adoption process occurred in several countries.
Some of the beginning countries of adoption were Rome, China, and India. One of the problems with adoption in Rome were that when a child’s birth father abandoned them, the child was not looked at as an orphan, and could not get adopted because both their parents weren’t deceased (Wikipedia) so the child, would have to live alone because they technically still have a guardian. Also, age didn’t matter in early adoption in Rome so, and young adult could be adopted. For example, in Rome many emperors were adopted into the throne, in aristocracy’s …show more content…
But we later realized that those children were legally born in the U.S, making them U.S citizens and have the right to live here so we passed the Indian Child Welfare Act allowing Indian American children and their parents to live in the U.S (University of Oregon). Also in the late 1950s older, disabled, non-white and special needs children were starting to be adopted (University of Oregon). Which made made its own set of standards to the adoptive parents can adopt, take care of, and bond with the
Adoption has existed for decades and originated in the United States, and since then it has come a long way and improved. When adoption was first made it had many unreasonable rules and guidelines, such as a law made in Rome stated that “France's Napoleonic Code made adoption difficult, requiring adopters to be over the age of 50, sterile, older than the adopted person by at least fifteen years, and to have fostered the adoptee for at least six years.” (Wikipedia). So in the start many issues in the adoption process occurred in several countries.
Some of the beginning countries of adoption were Rome, China, and India. One of the problems with adoption in Rome were that when a child’s birth father abandoned them, the child was not looked at as an orphan, and could not get adopted because both their parents weren’t deceased (Wikipedia) so the child, would have to live alone because they technically still have a guardian. Also, age didn’t matter in early adoption in Rome so, and young adult could be adopted. For example, in Rome many emperors were adopted into the throne, in aristocracy’s …show more content…
But we later realized that those children were legally born in the U.S, making them U.S citizens and have the right to live here so we passed the Indian Child Welfare Act allowing Indian American children and their parents to live in the U.S (University of Oregon). Also in the late 1950s older, disabled, non-white and special needs children were starting to be adopted (University of Oregon). Which made made its own set of standards to the adoptive parents can adopt, take care of, and bond with the