Biological Parent Adoption

Making decisions about the future for a child in foster care can be difficult and controversial. "Options include: returning the child to his/her birth parents; termination of parental rights (a formal legal procedure) to be followed, hopefully, by adoption; or long-term care with foster parents or relatives. Most states encourage efforts to provide the birth parents with support and needed services (e.g. mental health or drug/alcohol treatment, parent skills, training

Ever wonder what adoption is like? There are many opinions about how people should view adoption and how they view it themselves. This is an ethical issue because many people view this differently according to their race, religion, family and even society can influence the way you view how adoption is too a person, There are two sides with ethical issues so in this paper, I will show you both sides of adoption.

Should gays and lesbians have the same rights to adopt as heterosexuals? The laws of most states permit an unmarried person to be an adopted parent. However, many states have enacted laws limiting and in some cases prohibiting, lesbian and gay men from adopting. Adoption of children by lesbian and gay men remains controversial. A court must first find that the best interest of the child will be served by the adoption. Some courts have strongly rejected the notion that adoption by a lesbian or gay parent could ever be in the best interest of a child. This applies to same sex unions as well. Yet the United States has many children waiting to be adopted. Older children and those with special needs are the hardest to

Adoptive couple v. Baby Girl was a case that involved the biological parents of the baby girl in question. The biological mother Christy was Hispanic-Caucasian and, the father Mr. Brown, a member of a Cherokee Indian tribe. Congress had to step in due to the “ICWA” or the Indian Child Welfare Act that was passed in 1978 to prevent the illegal and harsh removal of Indian children from the tribes. This case was a huge battle in the Supreme Court between the biological father Dusten Brown and the adoptive parents of baby Veronica in September of 2011. This case caused uproar with people on both sides of the fence.

Adoption is the legal process whereby adults become parents to children not born to the. An adoptive parent assumes all the legal rights and responsibilities for the adopted child.

The aim of this study is to evaluate the Adoption and Safe Families Act of 2007. This act provides children waiting in foster care with permanent families through adoption. The states increased the number and proportion of adopted children that received adoption assistance because the child had a special need. The article goes over administrative data that indicates that states more diligently recorded the special needs of children as well as post adoption financial support and assistants. The paper reviews how some states found themselves in the contradictory position of promoting adoption while simultaneously cutting post- adoption support. In the next section of the article it outlines federal adoption incentives and funding for post- adoption

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Throughout the history of America, children have been put in orphanages and put up for adoption. As the ProQuest staff has explained in the timeline, "The will of Governor Sir William Phips of Massachusetts makes reference to his adopted son. This is the first recorded legal adoption in the American colonies" (Staff, ProQuest). At the time this was considered to be a unique case. After this event there were very few, if any cases of a legal adoption in America for years to come. As time progressed, the concern for orphaned and abandoned children grew, and orphanages were constructed and opened. David Gates states in his article History of the Orphanage "Ursuline nuns founded the first orphan asylum in North America in 1729, after Indians massacred

While many of the unique elements associated with kinship adoption are positive, there are also negatives that must be dealt with along the way. Adopting a child that you are related to comes with its own special challenges. In the last decade or two, kinship adoptions have increased in popularity. In fact, the numbers are still on the rise. With the increase in the number of children being placed with relatives, is more information on the topic than ever before. Knowing what challenges are likely to come up and what to do to move past them is extremely helpful to the entire family unit.

Some relationships are like writing on a dry erase board with permanent marker and trying to erase it—it does not erase! Genetics and union may just seem like two words. However, they have something in common—both are relationships between people. A genetic relationship would include brothers, sisters, moms, and dads. Nothing can ever erase that relationship, because it is genetic. Union is a non-genetic, heartwarming, relationship, such as adoption.

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“It’s about my entire life, it’s not just about my childhood. I want to know that I’m going to have someone to walk me down the aisle. That I’m going to have grandparents for my children.” -Mary (a girl in foster care). Adoption is a short term solution, and causes problems that has a lasting effect on a child. Adoption is the act of taking in a child to raise as your own. On paper, it sounds likes like an act of kindness, but adoption has many issues tied to it. Due to the many problems of adoption, such as the environment in a foster home, the people that lives in the home, mental instability, the process of adoption, same-sex parents, and transracial adoption, a child that experienced it could have an impact their life negatively, as

Heartbreak, hope and healing: A Young Mother's Adoption Story. In this video what surprised me was the open adoption. I was unaware that open adoptions existed, allowing the birth parents or birth parent to remain the baby’s life.

There is a lot of information available about adoption. It’s not difficult to find information on how to help an adopted child assimilate into a new home, how to manage interstate adoption, who to talk to regarding private adoption, how to manage post-adoption stress, etc. There are never ending articles filled with advice for new adoptive parents advising them what to expect and what to expect, helping them prepare, offering checklists of what to do and what not to do, and more. What isn’t as readily available is information for birth mothers.

My sister Katie feels like she “doesn’t belong” with my family. As kids, we used to play dress up with one another and Katie would always ask my mom to make her have blonde hair just as I did. My mom would then put a yellow towel on her head so that she could pretend she did. As a child I could not understand why Katie would want to do such a silly thing to try and look as I did. In my eyes we were both the same and nothing else mattered. As we got older, it became more apparent to me how different we really were. I am Caucasian and she is Native American. I have blonde hair and blue eyes while she has black hair and brown eyes. Not only did we look very different but our personalities differed as well. Katie was always much more fussy