Adoption

‘Couleur de peau: Miel’, is also called as ‘Approved for Adoption’ in English, is a French-Belgian animated movie based on the adoption experience of Jung. Jung is a cartoon artist and is involved in the directing of the movie. In the animated section of the film, Jung was appeared as a 5-year-old Korean child who was adopted by a Belgian family. His confusion of family status and civil status increases with his growth and his path of growing in Belgium was winding. He tried to escape his…

with your perfect family. Why it is that when it comes to having a perfect family with adoptive children, it’s seen as “much harder”? A study by Martha A. Rueter and Ascan F. Koerner, professors from the University of Minnesota was made to see if adoptions between adopted adolescents in families with certain communication patterns were at greater risk for adjustment problems. They tested several hypotheses using a community-based sample of 592 families, 384 adoptive and 208 nonadoptive…

This results in an adoption arrangement where a child has two legal parents, both with the same legal status regarding their association with the child (NCLR, 2016). Also, same-sex or LGBT couples can utilize the stepparent adoption process used by married couples. Most of the states that identify a comprehensive domestic partnerships or even civil unions permit couples who are united in such legal unions to utilize the stepparent adoption process. The impact caused by such adoptions is similar…

The Adoption Journey When a couple has an emotional journey trying to have their own biological children, but at the end they were unable to, they may consider adopting a child of their own. Although adopt a child may not be same as having their own biological child, they are still able to provide the same amount love and care to their adopted child as they would have given to their own biological child. By adopting they can give the child a better life; however, there are some up and down of…

Dolores M. Schmidt, James A. Rosenthal, and Beth Bombeck conducted a qualitative study on adoption disruption through an in-depth interview process with 15 adoptive parents of children aged 4 to 17. As stated in the article, (Schmidt, Rosenthal, & Bombeck, 1988) "The interview consisted of 15 semi-structured, open-ended questions which were asked of the parents" (p.121). Many of these questions included ideas of expectations parents had of their child, amount of information they received from…

up for adoption. The emotional and practical issues are overwhelming and need resolution. Adoptees should…

amount of love, care and wealth. Homosexuals can’t get their own child naturally, so its just good that they can take care of a child that couldn’t been taken care of by their biological parents. Adoption has been around for many years, but only in the last few years the problems about homosexuals adoption has been raised. The amount of children’s in orphans are bigger than the amount of couples that want to adopt them. So it does not help to forbid homosexual couples, when I am sure they…

to do so, I would support a lot of organizations that can make the world a better place. The first cause would have to be the adoption of children specifically older children. There is one organization: Project Wait No Longer-Older Child Adoption from Foster Care (PWNL) and I would love to get involved in that. I fully understand the importance and joy of the gift of adoption because I am adopted. I was one of…

Adoption has been a common practice for many years, but only recent years has the issue of gay adoption risen. Same-sex couples should be allowed to adopt. There are too many orphans in the world, but there are not enough families or parents to take them in; this is a perfect situation for same-sex couples. Who can say that same-sex parents would not be just as great a parent than heterosexual couples? There are 17.8 million children worldwide that are orphans who need a home. There are not…

lack of access to records, it could range from a simple curiosity to a life or death situation. Some states, such as Kansas and Alaska have never sealed adoption records. States such as Ohio and Illinois have gone through a legislative process to unseal the records. Yet, there…