Stigma Of Adoption Essay

Another way to remove the stigma from adoption is to look at the broader society and see why more people do not chose to adopt in the first place. Often, these are children who come from nothing. They have no family to take care of them and are left to try and survive. They are children who have physical abnormalities or mental issues that will need lots of work. In a study by Donna de Maat, adopted children were compared to those who were not adopted, and they saw an increase in the occurrence of attention deficit hyperactive disorder (de Maat). A current PhD student at Erasmus University Rotterdam, de Maat has expertise in developmental psychology and child studies. She found that her hypothesis, “assuming that the correlation between ADHD symptoms and …show more content…
By showing that the parents are not going anywhere and instead can provide a safe environment where the child is always considered first, then these mental issues might not become such a prevalent issue and that stigma could dissipate. de Maat also expresses that these are children who might have fetal alcohol exposure and other abuses during their early childhood that could impact their mental states (de Maat). While many parents might not want these children who have these disorders, adoptive parents are willing to take the risks and welcome these children into their home. Taking away the idea that the child is a disorder and instead looking at who they are as a person, stigma can begin to go away. The parents who take this on should be hailed as heroes, but instead get questioned about why they are not having their own child. For many, that is out of the question and they have to look at other options for having children. Yet society is nosy and want to know all the details when they do not get the easy answer that the child is their