Adoption Essay

For many years adoption has been the subject of both novels and nonfiction writing. In recent years, The Orphan Train, The Book Thief, Cider House Rules, The Child Called It, and The Lost Boy have gained attention for their portrayal of adoption. Historically, such authors as Charles Dickens, Emily Bronte, and Louisa May Alcott (Little Men) show both positive and negative experiences of being adopted. The book that I would like to write would focus on the adoption experience as told by the…

Common Difficulties Faced with Transracial Adoption Transracial adoption can be defined as placing children or infants with families of a different race than the children’s birth family (Lee, 2003; Simon & Altstein, 1996). Transracial adoptions (TRA’s) are common within the U.S. but are also common internationally. International TRA’s in the U.S. began in the 1940’s with the end of World War II (Hollingsworth, 1998). The number of international TRA’s continued to increase after later wars…

People like you and me go through hard times. They go through things like losing their family. Those people sometimes don’t have relatives either. They end up going to an orphanage. That is why I am writing a book about a foster child to encourage people to adopt children. This will take me around 1 and a half years. If you were in an orphanage I’m sure when someone picked you up, you’d go through the best day of your life. I want to encourage people to adopt children. Maybe their parents died,…

Many adoptions are being taken place in the U.S. today and dozens of couples across America adopt. Alot of the adoptions are not necessarily the same as race, therefore that is why transracial adoption has become very well known to those couples who are in need or eager to adopt. Transracial Adoption is when a couple of the same race adopts a child of another race. The idea of adopting children from other race has brought up some debates and controversies which at times the government had to…

their own child to love and care for. There are many different reasons people choose to adopt children. Adoption provides a chance for unwanted children to become loved and live a happy life. What would Steve Jobs, President Clinton, or athletes such as Eric Dickerson and Daunte Culpepper have done if they were not adopted? This paper will provide a brief description on the benefits of adoption and how it can help you as well as others. It will also tell about the process of adopting a child…

scenario would be considered a closed adoption. A closed adoption is when a child is adopted by a family, but the records of such an event are kept sealed. Therefore, the child is unable to contact his or her biological parents and is left with very little information about their background or family history. Alternatively, there are open adoptions, which allow the birth parents and the adoptee to have contact, or even hold visits. Within an open adoption, the adoption records are generally left…

Currently, there are 101,666 children available for adoption in the United States (Why We Do It). According to “It’s Easier to Adopt a Baby,” written in 1964 by The New York Times, there were “90,000 adoptions and a dozen couples for each adoptable child (Streit, P).” This newspaper article written in New York is about the changes to the adoption process at the time, and how that may affect both possible parents and child. The reason I have chosen this article for the museum of childhood…

companion, it is my dog. Approximately 37-47% of U.S households have a dog and 30-37% have a cat according to APPA. These low statistics prove that as a nation we need to step up and adopt from shelters more. Not only is it very beneficial, but every adoption saves an animal's life. Now this is a call to action; or wake up call as many would say to adopt animals straight from local shelters. Approximately, 7.6 million animals enter shelters nationwide every year. Out of those, only 2.7 million…

Adoption has been a choice for families all over the world for a long time. Now the question of gay adoption has come up. It is still illegal for homosexuals to adopt in most states in America. There are thousands of children waiting to be adopted, and parents waiting to adopt but are banned from it. Discrimination and prejudice are the main reasons for this injustice. It should be just as easy for homosexual couples to adopt as it is for straight couples. For obvious reasons gay couples…

time in my life that I could potentially be starting a family and be ready to adopt a child, I have begun thinking about all of the things that it may entail and how to prepare for it. Although race has never been a deciding factor for me in the adoption process, I have for some reason always thought I would adopt a child of a different race. As I have grown and become more educated in terms of society and how race & culture plays a great role in a persons’ life, I realize that it is important…