International Adoption Case Study

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In the years between 1971 and 2001, people from the United States adopted over 265,677 children from other counties. Emily Helder, a psychological professor, is now studying some issues on it. Her recent study project is called “Cognitive, Emotional and Behavioral Outcomes Following International Adoption,” where she is studying the outcome children who were adopted in a three year time period. Besides Mexico being one of America's closest neighbors, Mexico’s foreign adoption takes the longest to finalized (on average 770 days). International Adoption has great advantages like better home life for the child and giving the chance to a family who never had one. Although foreign adoption can be great, there are disadvantages as legal rights when they come to america and culture differences/ discrimination they could face living in a foreign place. …show more content…
One example of this is Anne’s story. She was four months along when she figured out she was pregnant. Anne was still in school and she did not have a good job. She knew right then the best thing for her child would be to give it up for adoption, due to the fact that she did not have the necessary money to support the child.(“Anne’s Story” 1) Living conditions play a big role in a “better home life” to. In Argentina, you have unpredictable politics and up and downs in the economics.(Poelzl 2)In france there is a high cost of living, and Mexico like some poorly developed countries safety concerns are in the air due to violent conflict.(Shah 3) Some of the undeveloped countries include Africa, Asia and Haiti. To be classified as an undeveloped country, some of the factors are health, nutrition, education and Adult literacy.(Least Developed Countries 1) This is a good reason for foreign adoption providing they could go to a different