Open adoption

I was about a year and a half when social services came to take me away from my family. It was right after my little brother was born, when the hospital notice that my parents where drug addicts. Therefore making my birth parents unfit to raise me and my brother. It was then social services found a home for my brother and I. Since I was so young I did not remember that I was adopted until I would get a call from my birth mother. It was just any other Saturday watching cartoons when unexpectedly…

Loring Jones’s article Measuring Resiliency and Its Predictors in Recently Discharged Foster Youth is a study where 97 foster youth are interviewed six months after they are discharged from the foster care system. The study took place at a foster care residence that uses a “residential education” approach. This means the emphasis at this facility was on education and social development. The interview is used to see how resilient the youth are based on predetermined predictors for being resilient…

Gay Adoption In many states, step parent, second parent, or joint adoption is not an option for gay and lesbian couples. There are 402,000 kids in U.S. foster care system, 102,000 eligible for adoption, and 23,000 “aged out before finding a family (familyEquality.org). Same sex couples are six times more likely than their different sex counterparts to be raising foster children (familyequality.org). Although there are some states that support fostering by LGBTQ+ couples, there are 41 states that…

Same-Sex Adoption “There are no unwanted children. Just unfound families.” – National Adoption Center. According to Terra Cooper a staff storyteller at Adoption.com there are nine basic steps to adoption. The first step is making the decision to adopt (Cooper). In making this decision, people need to decide if they are suitable to be an adoptive parent. There are three types of adoption: domestic, foster and international. Choosing one of these is the second step (Cooper). From adopting an…

unadoptable will decide to seek revenge, and that is a traumatic event for them but also a traumatic event for the rest of the nation because loved one could be lost. Children who are deemed unadoptable are deemed unadoptable because many experts on adoption believe that the children will suffer identity issues and not make it in life because they cannot figure out who they are. The children in the welfare system who are adoptable and find good homes are more successful than those who do not.…

abuse or neglect, and safely sheltering the more endangered children in foster care homes. The state struggled with keeping up with the expanding range of federal pressure, which was more focused on the preservation of families and the option of adoption. During the 20-year period of 1974 to 1994, Arkansas child welfare authorities struggled between removing children from their parents’ custody and helping to preserve the structure of the family, without compromising…

In today’s society everyone has rights that they are entitled to, for example, the right to freedom of speech, the right to choose religious beliefs, and the right to bear arms. Everything in the Bill of Rights is directed towards ensuring that people are aware of their rights as well as protecting them. However, children are not given the same rights as an adult. It is thought that children do not fully understand what rights are and that they are not mature enough to know right from wrong,…

Another debate related to abortion is the plan b pill. People argue how and to whom it should be available. Marjorie Signer argues that it should be available over the counter. It is safe and effective but must be used within 72 hours. That is why it is important for it to be available over the counter rather than with a prescription. Not everyone has a doctor and health insurance available. It is also commonly used in cases of sexual assault. Rep. Dave Weldon, M.D, R-Fla. is against the pill…

They Discover How Much He Misses His Brothers and Sisters. Summary: Adoption is an amazing thing, but it takes a significant amount of time and money. Couples have to really know if they are prepared for having a child. This is especially the case for older children who might need extra care and support during the transition. For Diego and Nina Cortes, the choice was easy. The only problem was what happened after the adoption was over with. Introduction: Diego and Nina Cortes had been…

“put up for adoption” was created. At that time, many homeless children in America “were placed on trains and put up on platforms to see anyone wanted them(facts.radomhistory.com)”. Nowadays, contrary to the fact that kids used to travel thousands miles to find someone to take care of them, a lot of loving couples are looking for children to adopt. More and more couples start to consider adopting children overseas because of the limited amount of domestic children. However, overseas adoption is…