Steve Doughty’s article “Choose Adoption Instead of having Abortion, Teen Mothers are Told,” explains a third option for teenage mothers; to adopt. The article states the concern about hostility and adoption of children of troubled mothers. Overall, the goal would be to place children in stable homes.
The ‘golden option’ consists of setting up an unwanted child for adoption rather than abortion. According to Doughty, “Abortion should be a third option to abortion or keeping the child. It is an attitude that must be allowed to grow.” (Doughty pg.2) This portrays the needed improvements adoption system need to make, in order to have children be placed in homes, as explained in the article. “Ministers have already tried to clear the way for …show more content…
Doughty explains the concern about the delay of children being adopted right away. Programs, like Coalition are helpful because they will pressure social workers to take action quickly. He also states, “Tony Blair tried to reform the system with a new adoption law in 2002… However, it failed to increase the number of children wining new homes through adoption, and its main effect was to allow homosexual couples to adopt for the first time.”(Doughty 2) One of the reasons the adoptive number of children decreased was because of the religious adoption agencies. Roman Catholic agencies are shutting down because of the fact that the church is against same sex couples. Children wait to be adopted up to 3 years, in the care system of a foster home or orphanage. According to Doughty, “Choose adoption instead of having an abortion, teen mothers are told … Most of the 60,000 children in the state care system leave school with no qualifications and many face a future of joblessness and crime.” (Doughty pg. 2) Evidence and statistics prove that children in state care systems skip class or drop out of school, leading them to end up in prison. Berk and Meyer state, “Because about one-fourth of U.S. adolescent pregnancies end in abortion, the number of American teenage births is considerably lower than it was 50 years ago.” (Berk and Meyers) The number of teenage pregnancies is still high till this day. It is important for ministers and social workers to find strategies to increase adoption and find those children a stable
The ‘golden option’ consists of setting up an unwanted child for adoption rather than abortion. According to Doughty, “Abortion should be a third option to abortion or keeping the child. It is an attitude that must be allowed to grow.” (Doughty pg.2) This portrays the needed improvements adoption system need to make, in order to have children be placed in homes, as explained in the article. “Ministers have already tried to clear the way for …show more content…
Doughty explains the concern about the delay of children being adopted right away. Programs, like Coalition are helpful because they will pressure social workers to take action quickly. He also states, “Tony Blair tried to reform the system with a new adoption law in 2002… However, it failed to increase the number of children wining new homes through adoption, and its main effect was to allow homosexual couples to adopt for the first time.”(Doughty 2) One of the reasons the adoptive number of children decreased was because of the religious adoption agencies. Roman Catholic agencies are shutting down because of the fact that the church is against same sex couples. Children wait to be adopted up to 3 years, in the care system of a foster home or orphanage. According to Doughty, “Choose adoption instead of having an abortion, teen mothers are told … Most of the 60,000 children in the state care system leave school with no qualifications and many face a future of joblessness and crime.” (Doughty pg. 2) Evidence and statistics prove that children in state care systems skip class or drop out of school, leading them to end up in prison. Berk and Meyer state, “Because about one-fourth of U.S. adolescent pregnancies end in abortion, the number of American teenage births is considerably lower than it was 50 years ago.” (Berk and Meyers) The number of teenage pregnancies is still high till this day. It is important for ministers and social workers to find strategies to increase adoption and find those children a stable