Adoption Research Paper

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Introduction
Since as early as 1851, adoption has helped kids that couldn’t stay with their biological parents get a new home. Adoption is taking legal guardianship of a child from orphanages or foster care. Many kids that were born into abusive homes get sent to orphanages or foster care, where they get neglected since there are multiple kids living there. Many people believe adopting a child from foster care is too expensive, hard, and that the child won’t love them as much as they would their biological parents, which aren’t true. Actually, adoption can be virtually free, since many agencies do not charge for the services they provide to families who are adopting a child from foster care. Adoption can save kids from neglective, abusive, and unsafe homes.

Subtopic 1- adoption Adoption is the process of choosing a child from either foster care, orphanages, or adoption agencies and taking legal guardianship of them. Adoption Laws started as early as 1851 and women started putting their kids in orphanages if they can’t afford to care for them or other reasons. Around 135,000
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On the other hand, orphanages are buildings that orphans are sent to for temporary care that is run by the government. The average age of a child in foster care is around 9. Before getting adopted, a child can go to around 3-5 foster homes and stay for about a year in each but sometimes that’s not the case.On an average day, there are about 428,000 children in foster care in America. According to http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sally-maslansky/learning-about-adoption-f_b_541791.html, “Children in orphanages have few opportunities to grow and develop in a healthy way…. Neglect is the nature of growing up in an