Misconceptions About Adoption

Adoption refers to the process whereby adults who are not biological parents of a child can legally be granted the permission to be permanent parents of a child, and the kid in this case is said to be adopted. For many couples who cannot bear children, adoption provides a viable way of having a family. However, there are widespread misconceptions regarding adoption. One of the misapprehensions is that families that embrace adoption are not truly connected and lack bonding, as it is the case with birth or biological families. Most fallacies are essentially biases embraced by society, but in true sense supported by facts, they are vague and untrue in reality. Adoption is an alternative way for couples to create a family; if couples and society
Adoption should also be encouraged as a possible alternative to parenthood and abortion. Couples who have experienced infertility usually resort to adoption often after spending years in fertility clinics trying to have children with no success. Heterosexual unions in particular have always preferred biological child as the only path to parenthood, negating the fact or reality that infertile couples can also utilize adoption to procreate and create a family. Adoption has also shrunk dramatically, as a result of advent of technologies such as Intro-Vitro Fertilization, Artificial insemination, all of which are costly and takes a great deal of emotional, mental and physical demand for the couples looking to have children. In 2002, data from the National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG), indicated that at least 57 percent of the women who pursued infertility treatment either considered adoption as an alternative or actively resorted to child adoption (Gulcin and Jungmin). Couples should take into account adoption, as it provides the peace of mind, joy and happiness that comes with having a family, especially for married couples who have spent time and energy trying infertility treatment without any achievement. The amount of emotional, physical and psychological sacrifices that couples undergo while pursuing barrenness treatment, especially for a
There are three forms of adoption: domestic infant adoption, international adoption and foster care adoption. The three options are cost effective and guaranteed approach to raising a lineage, as the offspring are readily available with varying preferences for couples to select from. The adoption process for domestic infant adoption can be lengthy, but rewarding in the long-term compared to infertility treatment where couples spend thousands of dollars and time without any success. For instance, In terms of costs, couples may utilize a licensed agency when seeking adoption from foster care with a general cost that may not exceed $500 compared to the costly infertility treatment. “Embry adoption” is a new option of adoption available to couples, especially infertile couples. This new form of adoption utilizes the frozen stored zygotes from couples attempting pregnancy through In Vitro Fertilization (IVF), the infertile couple may offer the zygote for “adoption” to another couple through an agency specializing in embryo adoption. The procedure allows the adoptive mother to be implanted with the frozen zygote through In Vitro Fertilization, resulting in her becoming the legal birth mother. It also enables her to be able to experience pregnancy and childbirth