Foster Parent Adoption Research Paper

Week 7
Why some parents adopt or become foster parents and how to handle those challenges.
In our reading this week, I discovered some reason why parents want to adopt or become foster parents. One of such reasons is that of infertility, this is one of the major reasons because it affects both men and women. Male for example may have problem with sperm production or the woman may have problem with fertility as the case may be, the couple can decide to go for adoption or to become a foster parent. I found that foster and adopted parent are not similar, foster parents is a means of providing temporary homes to children because they are yet to be re-united with their family, and if re-unification is not possible, such parent may be adopted. This
Divorce is an emotionally charged process for a family. It is therefore necessary to state in clear terms what is happening to the children; likewise parents must be ready to provide non-judgmental answer to child when it is required. Parents need to consider some factors to minimize the effects of divorce or absence on the kids, i.e. parent should avoid conflict as much as possible in the presence of the children, parent should realized that their relationship as not come to an end but rather changing, furthermore, both parents should always have a positive attitude towards the other biological parents also parents should make sure that they live closely enough within the same geographical location for easy accessibility to the children. On last note parent should allow consistency in communication about the children health, emotion and academic progress as well be supportive to each other in playing the role as parents. In conclusion when parents is supportive to each other while the children maintains clear boundaries, this will minimize greatly the effect of divorce or parental absence on the