About 135,000 children are adopted every year in the United States and about seventy-eight percent of the US population uses social media. With so many people being adopted and the majority of the population using social media, these two topics have intertwined. There are benefits to this but also problems. As many people already know, there are many negative aspects to social media but it can be positive like being able to find and communicate with family. It makes sense to question, “Is connecting with biological relatives through social media a positive choice for adopted children?” Though there are some perks to using social media for communication with biological relatives, it is not an excellent choice. One source I chose was an
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It was written by Adoption Star and published in 2012. In this e-book, it explains how to search for a birth family member and how to prepare for a conversation and relationship with them. It even explains how to be safe on social media and to process information before reacting. Also, it explains how to go about a communicating with birth relatives in a closed, opened, and semi-opened adoption. There is one part that lists pros and cons about social media and relationships with biological family. The author explains how to communicate with biological relatives like how they should do what they are comfortable with, how to prepare, and how to break the ice. In the end the author gives a couple of examples from an adoptive parents and a birth mom to show how social media and communication can work. The parents discuss how their experience was. In, summary, this e-book explains how an adopted child can have a healthy and safe relationship with their birth family. The author, Adoption Star, is a non-for-profit organization and has a staff of well educated people. The e-book was published fairly recently. This source provides a healthy way to communicate with birth relatives and also provides cons about …show more content…
The authors are Harold D. Grotevant, Ruth G. McRoy, Gretchen M. Wrobel, and Susan Ayers-Lopez and it was published in 2013. Although this article doesn’t have anything to do with social media, it explains why people involved in the adoption system search for their biological family. It explained some reasons why birthparents, adoptive parents, and adopted children search for birth relatives. They even compared how open and closed adoption affected how much the birth relatives wanted to find each other. In their experiment they discovered long-term effect of being separated from their biological family. One problem with this experiment is that it does not represent the whole population of adoption because none of the children were put up for adoption because of maltreatment. This source seems credible because they have in depth information, the article was peer reviewed, it is fairly recent, there were not any pop-ups. This source will help me in writing my paper by helping me better understand why birth relatives search each other after they have gone through the adoption
It was written by Adoption Star and published in 2012. In this e-book, it explains how to search for a birth family member and how to prepare for a conversation and relationship with them. It even explains how to be safe on social media and to process information before reacting. Also, it explains how to go about a communicating with birth relatives in a closed, opened, and semi-opened adoption. There is one part that lists pros and cons about social media and relationships with biological family. The author explains how to communicate with biological relatives like how they should do what they are comfortable with, how to prepare, and how to break the ice. In the end the author gives a couple of examples from an adoptive parents and a birth mom to show how social media and communication can work. The parents discuss how their experience was. In, summary, this e-book explains how an adopted child can have a healthy and safe relationship with their birth family. The author, Adoption Star, is a non-for-profit organization and has a staff of well educated people. The e-book was published fairly recently. This source provides a healthy way to communicate with birth relatives and also provides cons about …show more content…
The authors are Harold D. Grotevant, Ruth G. McRoy, Gretchen M. Wrobel, and Susan Ayers-Lopez and it was published in 2013. Although this article doesn’t have anything to do with social media, it explains why people involved in the adoption system search for their biological family. It explained some reasons why birthparents, adoptive parents, and adopted children search for birth relatives. They even compared how open and closed adoption affected how much the birth relatives wanted to find each other. In their experiment they discovered long-term effect of being separated from their biological family. One problem with this experiment is that it does not represent the whole population of adoption because none of the children were put up for adoption because of maltreatment. This source seems credible because they have in depth information, the article was peer reviewed, it is fairly recent, there were not any pop-ups. This source will help me in writing my paper by helping me better understand why birth relatives search each other after they have gone through the adoption