Adoption Pros And Cons

“According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families, 641,000 children lived in foster care in 2012. Even with 52,000 adoptions in 2012, 102,000 were still legally ready for adoption with no parental rights' strings attached.” Adoption can be a very long process, especially if it is an international deal. Other than it being a long process, it can also be an emotional and thoughtful event that can bring happiness, of many emotions. When going through the adoption process, the adopting family must go through a screening process to make sure that they are financially and physically able to support the child they intend on adopting. After the screening process, the adopting family is chosen by the family who is putting their child up for adoption. “When a good family adopts a child, he(or she) receives the love and support necessary to have a good childhood.” Adoption provides the child with a home that will (hopefully) take care of them. With adoption as an increasingly popular arrangement, many of the mothers would do it for a good reason. More often than not the mother is a teen, and in that case, the biggest reason as to why she would put her child up for adoption is
Therefore, “allowing an ongoing relationship between the birth parent(s) and the adopted child's family may not be in anyone's best interests.” There has been no proven and researched information on the outcomes of open adoptions. As there is no clinical research provided, “family therapist Patrick F. Fagan argues that blending birth families with adoptive families may result in a "confusion of roles" that "interferes with parent and child bonding in the adoptive family and inhibits the birth parents' grieving