Pros And Cons Of International Adoption
U.S. Adoption
According to Children’s Rights “In 2013 more than 23,000 young people whom states failed to reunite with their families or place in permanent homes — aged out of foster care, simply because they were too old to remain. The percentage of youth that age out of foster care increased from eight percent in 2003, to ten percent in 2013. Youth who age out of foster care are less likely to graduate from high school and less likely to attend of graduate college. By age 26, approximately 80 percent of young people who aged out of foster care earned at least a high school degree or GED compared to 94 percent in the general population.” Providing children in the United States with a family domestically is the best thing to do not only for …show more content…
the children, but for the countries wellbeing for having educated citizens.
The National Council for Adoption shows that domestic adoption agencies have raised; from 14,549 in the year 1982 to a stunning 20,254 in the year 2007. While our domestic agencies are continuing to rise, international Agencies have declined over several years. In 2010 there were reported of 11,058 agencies and in the year 2013 there were 7,092 agencies. This country need to start lowering the amount of agencies domestically. The first thing someone should consider when adopting internationally is most of the time future parents are not given any medical of social back ground about the parents or child. The future parents are clueless to what hereditary conditions the child should be expected to have or if the parents had drugs in their system while pregnant. In the United States not only is most of the research done on a child for their wellbeing but there for the adoptees to take into consideration. Domestically 55% of adoptions are open meaning that the birth parents will be there in the child’s life. As not everyone is comfortable with this idea it does give the Adoptees the peace of mind knowing who the parent is and that their child doesn’t have to wonder what their birth parents are like when they get older.
Niccole Witt, MBA executive director of the adoption consultancy says “Most people just beginning a domestic adoption have a fear of the birthmother “showing up on their doorstep.” In a closed or semi-open adoption, the birthmother will not know where your doorstep is. Even if she found your doorstep, she would have no legal right to the baby once her rights are properly terminated” she then says most biological parents are at peace with their decision and don’t want to disrupt the kids life or cause any issues. Another fear many people have with open adoption is that potential parents feel that the birth parents will change their mind and when adopting domestically its easier for them to take the kids back. The fact is that on average 20% of birth parents will change their mind which does seem to be a high number but with a closed adoption studies have shown that children are confused with the secrecy of who their birth parents are don’t feel they have access with honest information.
There are an estimated 73,000,000 children in the United States out of which 640,000 children spent their time in foster care in 2013 that’s about .8% of children. 58,000 children are waiting to be adopted and had their biological parents taken from them. Most children in the United States spend an average of two years waiting to be adopted.
Someone might say it’s easier to adopt outside of the United States but current U.S. laws make it harder to not only must one pay for the Visa for the child but one must have to provide documentation to the Department of State showing that the adoption agency was a nonprofit organization, the agency have never been involved in any improper conduct, the child that is being adopted has both biological parents deceased or that the biological parents are unable to provide proper care to the child, then the prospective parent would have to file for citizenship for the child with the U.S. Citizenship and immigration Services (USCIS). All the documentation must be turned in before the child is officially adopted. The USCIS can deny any claim or the claim may have to wait for approval for weeks if not months. This all can be difficult to do especially if the biological parent is alive and just doesn’t want to be a parent. All this could be avoided if prospective parents adopt domestically.
The most children adopted by the United States citizens were reported to be from China with 3,401 in the year 2010 and following behind were Ethiopia and Russia with over 1,000 adoptions for each county. Adopting internationally is a form of child Trafficking, most people get personal gain from moving a child from these poor countries to the richer nations rather or not it is for sex, or labor. The meaning of trafficking
Erika Lynn Kleiman an attorney in California stated in one article “One of the most common reasons for a person to turn to international adoption is that he has effectively been rendered ineligible as a prospective adoptive parent by domestic agency criteria….
Foreign countries often have less stringent requirements than American agencies. In addition, international home studies are often less rigorous than domestic ones. Admittedly, there are some countries with strict restrictions regarding which people may adopt their children. Nevertheless, the large number of countries that are willing to allow Americans to adopt their orphaned children increases most people’s chances of meeting the standards of eligibility for adoptive parents in at least one country. As such, international adoption provides an alternate source of children for Americans who may not qualify as eligible adoptive parents under domestic …show more content…
standards.”
What everyone should do as a nation is protect the children in this country. From the president to city mayor we should encourage our people to adopt children domestically without all of these barriers. It will save the country money by eliminating the amount of money foster homes get in subsidy (which can be up to 2,000 dollars per month) and then the Deduction they take for the children living in the foster homes. The United States uses approximately 22 billion tax dollars a year to support foster/orphaned kids. While some people may not care much about the money the United States can save, adopting from our own county can qualify adoptees with a monthly stipend which can be used to provide necessities for one’s new child.
The problem that others may have with domestic adoption is that prospective parents can end up not getting the child’s adoption processed and completed because the birth parents can withdraw from the agreement.
International birth parents usually have their rights transferred to agencies or orphanages before the prospective parents are ever involved in trying to obtain the child. As these fears are normal for anyone want to be parents the best part of adopting domestically is that a person wanting to be a new parent gets to participate in the newborn or infants adoption.
A family that adopts in the U.S. is a part of something big; it gives someone the feeling they are needed, improves our education in the United States, lower the amount of citizens that end up homeless, and lower the amount of people that will go to prison. Everyone should adopt domestically; to better the country and lives of the American
people.
According to Children’s Rights “In 2013 more than 23,000 young people whom states failed to reunite with their families or place in permanent homes — aged out of foster care, simply because they were too old to remain. The percentage of youth that age out of foster care increased from eight percent in 2003, to ten percent in 2013. Youth who age out of foster care are less likely to graduate from high school and less likely to attend of graduate college. By age 26, approximately 80 percent of young people who aged out of foster care earned at least a high school degree or GED compared to 94 percent in the general population.” Providing children in the United States with a family domestically is the best thing to do not only for …show more content…
the children, but for the countries wellbeing for having educated citizens.
The National Council for Adoption shows that domestic adoption agencies have raised; from 14,549 in the year 1982 to a stunning 20,254 in the year 2007. While our domestic agencies are continuing to rise, international Agencies have declined over several years. In 2010 there were reported of 11,058 agencies and in the year 2013 there were 7,092 agencies. This country need to start lowering the amount of agencies domestically. The first thing someone should consider when adopting internationally is most of the time future parents are not given any medical of social back ground about the parents or child. The future parents are clueless to what hereditary conditions the child should be expected to have or if the parents had drugs in their system while pregnant. In the United States not only is most of the research done on a child for their wellbeing but there for the adoptees to take into consideration. Domestically 55% of adoptions are open meaning that the birth parents will be there in the child’s life. As not everyone is comfortable with this idea it does give the Adoptees the peace of mind knowing who the parent is and that their child doesn’t have to wonder what their birth parents are like when they get older.
Niccole Witt, MBA executive director of the adoption consultancy says “Most people just beginning a domestic adoption have a fear of the birthmother “showing up on their doorstep.” In a closed or semi-open adoption, the birthmother will not know where your doorstep is. Even if she found your doorstep, she would have no legal right to the baby once her rights are properly terminated” she then says most biological parents are at peace with their decision and don’t want to disrupt the kids life or cause any issues. Another fear many people have with open adoption is that potential parents feel that the birth parents will change their mind and when adopting domestically its easier for them to take the kids back. The fact is that on average 20% of birth parents will change their mind which does seem to be a high number but with a closed adoption studies have shown that children are confused with the secrecy of who their birth parents are don’t feel they have access with honest information.
There are an estimated 73,000,000 children in the United States out of which 640,000 children spent their time in foster care in 2013 that’s about .8% of children. 58,000 children are waiting to be adopted and had their biological parents taken from them. Most children in the United States spend an average of two years waiting to be adopted.
Someone might say it’s easier to adopt outside of the United States but current U.S. laws make it harder to not only must one pay for the Visa for the child but one must have to provide documentation to the Department of State showing that the adoption agency was a nonprofit organization, the agency have never been involved in any improper conduct, the child that is being adopted has both biological parents deceased or that the biological parents are unable to provide proper care to the child, then the prospective parent would have to file for citizenship for the child with the U.S. Citizenship and immigration Services (USCIS). All the documentation must be turned in before the child is officially adopted. The USCIS can deny any claim or the claim may have to wait for approval for weeks if not months. This all can be difficult to do especially if the biological parent is alive and just doesn’t want to be a parent. All this could be avoided if prospective parents adopt domestically.
The most children adopted by the United States citizens were reported to be from China with 3,401 in the year 2010 and following behind were Ethiopia and Russia with over 1,000 adoptions for each county. Adopting internationally is a form of child Trafficking, most people get personal gain from moving a child from these poor countries to the richer nations rather or not it is for sex, or labor. The meaning of trafficking
Erika Lynn Kleiman an attorney in California stated in one article “One of the most common reasons for a person to turn to international adoption is that he has effectively been rendered ineligible as a prospective adoptive parent by domestic agency criteria….
Foreign countries often have less stringent requirements than American agencies. In addition, international home studies are often less rigorous than domestic ones. Admittedly, there are some countries with strict restrictions regarding which people may adopt their children. Nevertheless, the large number of countries that are willing to allow Americans to adopt their orphaned children increases most people’s chances of meeting the standards of eligibility for adoptive parents in at least one country. As such, international adoption provides an alternate source of children for Americans who may not qualify as eligible adoptive parents under domestic …show more content…
standards.”
What everyone should do as a nation is protect the children in this country. From the president to city mayor we should encourage our people to adopt children domestically without all of these barriers. It will save the country money by eliminating the amount of money foster homes get in subsidy (which can be up to 2,000 dollars per month) and then the Deduction they take for the children living in the foster homes. The United States uses approximately 22 billion tax dollars a year to support foster/orphaned kids. While some people may not care much about the money the United States can save, adopting from our own county can qualify adoptees with a monthly stipend which can be used to provide necessities for one’s new child.
The problem that others may have with domestic adoption is that prospective parents can end up not getting the child’s adoption processed and completed because the birth parents can withdraw from the agreement.
International birth parents usually have their rights transferred to agencies or orphanages before the prospective parents are ever involved in trying to obtain the child. As these fears are normal for anyone want to be parents the best part of adopting domestically is that a person wanting to be a new parent gets to participate in the newborn or infants adoption.
A family that adopts in the U.S. is a part of something big; it gives someone the feeling they are needed, improves our education in the United States, lower the amount of citizens that end up homeless, and lower the amount of people that will go to prison. Everyone should adopt domestically; to better the country and lives of the American
people.