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    down her father to learn more about him. She was tracking him down to learn more about herself. ” This statement being a prime example that many adopted children want to know their biological parents for themselves and for their own self-identity. Adoption is a life changing event, and affects the child for the rest of his or her life. So shouldn’t the child have the right to know their parents if they choose to? Absolutely, although allowing the child to meet their biological parents could have…

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    a terrible thing. I was adopted from a family that could not take care of me so I was very thankful for the second chance I was given. Adoption is the act of taking something on as your own and in my case it refers to the legal process of becoming a non-biological parent. Adopting a child is not an easy process and it takes a while to complete. Since my adoption, my life has been drastically different and the changes that overcame my life still affect me to this day. I grew up playing a bunch…

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    Mary Smolnisky Period 2 American Lit 26 February 2018 Should Gay Adoption be allowed Many people argue if it’s right to let gay couples adopt children because of religious reasons. Gay adoption means having two homosexuals take care of and add a child to their growing families. Gay adoption is legal but some people still deny the gay couples the right of adopting a child. Consider that there are roughly 400,000 orphans in the U.S alone. People could really lower that amount if…

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    Adoption is the process of taking legal, responsibility care for a child of someone else. In the United States, adoption has ranged from a low 50,000 in 1944, to a high 175,00 in 1970. In the 1990s to the early 2000s, the number of adoptions remained at 120,000 more per year. By the late 2000s, this number rose to more than 130,000 per year. Although adopting could be the best thing that could happen to a child, there are also many disadvantages about the process. Adopting a child could help…

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    Erikson’s Theory and Adopted Children The adopted child 's trauma begins the moment they are separated from their biological mother at birth and can last a lifetime. This sounds terminally depressing; however, this paper will shed light on a topic much overlooked, giving discernment, showing although there are challenges to be faced, it does not necessarily mean the outcome is doomed to be hopeless. Most adopted children make it through adolescence just as others do. This paper will bring…

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    Adoption is a complicated thing, it can take months, weeks, years to be able to start your family. Many people adopt because they can not have a child of their own, some people adopt because they feel like those children that don’t have a family should have a family before another human being is brought into the world, then there is also the gay community but that goes with the can’t have a baby of their own category and some of the other. I wanna throw some facts down about adoption, and how…

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    their biological family. The act of adoption gives an opportunity for these children to be placed with a family with open arms. Based on The Gale Encyclopedia of Children’s Health: Infancy through Adolescence, adoption serves to provide children under eighteen with a permanent, legal, or non-biological parent(s) after the child has been legally relinquished at birth, orphaned, or legally removed from the custody of an unsuitable parent(s). Giving a child up for adoption would appear to be a…

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    My Life Story Of Adoption

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    Every story has the same three items; a beginning, a middle, and an end. Anyone who has ever read a book would tell you that you are crazy to start at chapter three, you miss the how the story was established, the history, opening to the plot, introduction to key characters but that is what it means to be adopted. Those first few chapters are missing The reason I believe that people say my life story is because life has those same three requirements we just call them different things, birth.…

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    Argument Against Abortion

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    under others. People should have the right to decide what they want to do with their body. However, with abortion, it is not your body. It is the life of someone else that is inside the female body. An argument is that adoption is always an option. However, in some circumstances, adoption is actually not an option. Abortion should be legal in very rare circumstances. Under other circumstances, abortion should be illegal. The decision should be made by a health care…

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    my birth mother on my fifth birthday, he also protected me from them at other times as well. When I was two years old, my birth father came to the door with his new wife. He told my adoptive parents he wanted to try and make it work and since the adoption was not final yet they reluctantly let him take me. Less than a week later, my birth father called my adoptive parents in the middle of the night. He was in a drunken stupor, yelling and screaming that he could not take care of me and said…

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