Help Children Get a Home and Save Their Life
Single adopters should be seen as much capable as married couple at taking care of children because it is the best thing for the child and the adopter. There are many children who need to be adopted. There are approximately 408,425 children who need to be adopted in the US only (Unmarried Equality). Most adoptive children all around the world have been abused, neglected leading to physical, emotional, and intellectual disabilities (Unmarried Equality). We need to help these children get a home instead of depriving them of their rights just because of our discrimination against single adopters.
Single adopters should get as much right to adopt a child as couple adopters. Many adoption agencies and
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They actually are very capable of taking care of children in a healthy environment. Single parents lack the animosity from former spouses, reduced income, and insecurity with the new status of being a single parent (Family Education). This allows for the children to grow up in loving and caring environment reducing the number of children with social issues.
There are many single parents (biological) around the world due to divorce, deployment, or death of spouses so why can’t single adopters have children? (Child Welfare Information Gateway, Pg. 14). “A New York Times article reports that out of one-fifth of the nation 's 51.1 million Caucasian children, over half of the 9.8 million African-American children, and almost one-third of the 7 million Hispanic children live with one parent due to divorce and unwed mothers.” (Cormell, Adopting.org). Also unstable and broken home causes more damage to a child than having one parent (Cormell,
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Based on a study published in Families in Society, over half of single adopters had some college education (Family Education). Also most single adopters are very capable in the career portion and in taking care of children. Single adopters can also join an adoptive parent (couple and single) group that will help them get ready before adopting (Family Education). This proves that not only are single adopters educated and ready for a child in the financial standard, but they can also be ready for any kinds of possible challenges after adoption by joining a group for
323,123,019 and growing is the United States census for this year of 2016 (U.S. and World Population Clock). 415,129 is the amount of children living in the United States who are currently in foster care waiting to be adopted (The AFCARS Report). These numbers are staggering and highlight a huge problem in America caused by adoption regulations, same sex debates, and cost; the effects are rising foster care numbers, declining adoption rates, higher abortion rates, and physical and psychological harms to children. Background knowledge is a very important essential when doing research; therefore one should know the history of adoption. “Adoption refers to the act by which an adult formally becomes the guardian of a child and incurs the rights and responsibilities of a parent.
There are many children that are stuck in the foster care system because they do not have a biological family or an adoptive
This policy is just one of many that is geared toward incentivizing the adoption of children. In this paper I will discuss the development of this policy, what its values are, and how it is currently being implemented. I would like to first start off with the values that this policy holds and the background of what created this policy. The National Adoption Center came about in 1972 in hopes to speak out for children who could not speak for themselves. With their help, 23,000 families have been created and that number should be attributed to the work of Caroyln Johnson, the founder of this organization (adopt.org/about).
Every year, more than 100,000 children in foster care are available for adoption according to Children’s Action Network. Foster care is a temporary living situation for children whose parents are unable, unwilling, or unfit to care for them. Minors whose need for care has come to the attention, are placed with a state certified caregiver which is arranged through the government or a social service agency. The primary goal of foster care is to reunite children with their parents. With the history and known statistics, this many children entering the system every year, finding the right care becomes increasingly difficult.
In the United States, there are numerous legal and bureaucratic hurdles that potential adoptive parents must navigate in order to complete an adoption. These include home studies, background checks, and lengthy waiting periods, among other requirements. Additionally, the cost of adoption can be prohibitively expensive for many families, with fees for domestic adoption often ranging from $20,000 to $40,000 or more. These challenges can make it difficult for families who are interested in adopting to follow through with the process and can leave many children waiting in foster care or institutional settings for extended periods of time. Another challenge of adoption is the potential for disruptions or dissolutions.
Adoption, defined as the “[taking]” of “another's child and bring it up as one's own”, is a choice for many couples who yearn to overcome infertility, become parents, or help a child in need. There are many children and infants waiting to be adopted, and many couples with a desire to adopt both globally and in the United States. In the United States, 6 out of 10 individuals have had “personal experience with adoption”, whether that means they placed a child up for adoption, were adopted themselves, or adopted a child. For mothers or families who cannot raise their children, adoption is a suitable alternative, because the process of adoption is safe and dedicated to the mother and children who are adopted “do as well as or better than their
A single parent have to take all the responsibility to raise children. They have to work hard in order to get enough money for the whole family. It is truly stressful for these families. The kind of family type is unstable as a result of divorce of coupled parents and the death of parents. The women who get pregnant by accident can also become single parents.
Open adoption gives the adoptive parents better ways to answer the questions of the children or child. Open adoption also can help the children or child to get why they were adopted. This is because concerns can be confronted by everyone who was there for the adoption. Although the adoptive parents could feel threatened by the open adoption it will benefit the children or child by the truth, clearness and the responsibility of this process. (Castellucci
Teen pregnancies have become much more common with the oversexualized views of our millennial era, and often times young parents cannot handle the stress of the child. In 2013 alone, 273,105 babies were born to women aged 15–19 years. If abortion is not their number one choice, they will most likely turn to adoption, leaving the population problem still in existence. People often use the common phrase “adoption is always an option” but are unaware that there are currently “397,122 children are living without permanent families in the foster care system (Congressional Coalition On Adoption Institute, CCAI). There are too many children, and not enough eligible parents around to take care of them.
This heavy financial cost, extensive time span, and turmoil that it takes to go through adopting a child in the U.S is taking away from couples and individuals dreams of having a fair chance of being able to raise a family of their own some
I. Adoption A. Hook B. Ladder C. The large number of children who need love love ones through adoption is a social injustice because these children defence to have home. Many children who are lonely needs a family who can be loved and protected and the Gladney Center of Adoption works to address this issue by placing children who are without a home with foster families.
The main solution needed for this problem is adoption. This is the reason why single individuals should be able to adopt and should be treated as any other couple willing to go through this process. A. If an individual chooses to be single and not be in a relationship or get married, this doesn’t automatically means that this individual is not skilled enough to raise a family. 1.
Single Parent Families Can Succeed! "Single Parent" families are known as "the fastest growing family style" in the United States and likewise in several other countries. The recorded number of divorces, separations, desertions, and illegitimate births is seen to have had tremendous consequences for millions of parents and children worldwide.
Adoption Difficulties Adopting a child is a controversial issue. Many children go without homes, because the qualifications people have to fit are very high, and somewhat unachievable. However some people say that these standards should be high, because they want the child to go into the best home, but if they are too high, which they are now, people will not be eligible to adopt, because they do not fit the standards. The fact is, adoption should be made easier, so kids can find forever homes. Adopting a child is very difficult.
Regardless if a single does not qualify for some part of the adoption i strongly believe that they should be able to adopt a child as long as they have steady income. To conclude, having a child in one's life can be great in so many ways it’s crazy, there are a lot of single lonely people out in the world and kids can be the solution. By having a kid in their life they create a bond and the adults are not so lonely anymore which helps both parties. Adopting is not an easy process, singles have to prepare and go through a lot to get the chance to raise a child, therefore