Child Adoption Research Paper

If you want to improve the life of a child, then you should adopt. These children need the love and support that most centers do not provide. Adoption these days has seemed to be quiet, we rarely hear about it in the news anymore. Now, I don’t mean that I want to be hearing all the horrible occurrences that cause families to break apart, children who are abandoned, parents addicted to drugs, child abuse. I want to hear about the positive occurrences that are happening, today. As I said, adoption is somewhat out of the limelight. Forgotten, some children have withstood all the abuse from their centers and homes. These children have already had so much happen to them that they start to not care and begin to act out. They start to value life less …show more content…
The rights of a child to a permanent, loving family is lost in a quagmire of concern for parents and birth families. Too often courts and child welfare professionals are loath to make a judgment as to whether a parent can truly care for a child.... While many children removed from home return successfully to their family, many others cannot. And at some point, an effective child welfare system must say that, where parental actions remain dangerously inconsistent with parental good intentions, the child must be removed. The tragic lives of parents are never a reason to repeat the tragedy upon their children...(Albrechtsen)". If the child is taken into protective services, and has a foster family, the biologic parents can still reclaim the child legally if found eligible. That doesn’t make sense because that parents then they will have the opportunity to repeat what they did in the first place that caused them to have to surrender their child. It now makes sense as to why the interest in adoption has gone down, since it may take years for a child be to eligible for adoption.
Age does have a huge impact on the bond made between the child and the adoptive family. Typically, the younger the child the easier it may be to form a solid bond. Now I don’t mean that you should only adopt younger children, because all children of any age still need a home. "Adoption studies regularly confirm that age at the …show more content…
This is true in terms of all the measures social scientists use to assess well-being, including measures of self-esteem and outcome measures related to later education, employment, crime and the like. It is also true in terms of abuse and neglect rates. Indeed, adopted children are less likely to suffer child abuse than is the norm in the general population of children raised by their biological parents (Bartholet)." Thanks to adoption they can be accepted, get the encouragement and support from their adoptive parents than what they ever may have with their birth parents. Even they are adopted by just one parent.
People who want to adopt a child have a reason to adopt. One of the biggest reasons is that they cannot have children of their own, either by choice, circumstance or medical reasons. Same sex couples, people who have not found a partner, and some people just want to be parents without having a spouse. "In 2000, an estimated 33 percent of children adopted from foster care were adopted by single parents. Even though every US state allows single-parent adoption, single parents generally have

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