Do you know what Steve Jobs, Gerald Ford, and Jesse Jackson have in common? These famous characters of history, all share the same facet of being adopted. Even though these well-renowned people have been adopted, they were not the first ones to be so. The history of adoption has been present since the Biblical era. As a matter of fact, the Bible states in James 1:27, “Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world. (JMS, 1:27)” As a result of the verse from James, adoption still contributes to many people’s happiness today. Adoption is beneficial to the adoptive family, birth mothers, and adopted children. Adoption is beneficial …show more content…
In America, there are two options presented to the birthmother: abort the baby or keep it and raise it with harsh living conditions. However, doctors and specialists leave out the third party, adoption. Adoption is often overlooked when the mother is making her life-changing decision, whether to keep her baby or abort it. Abortion has played a key role in our society in America and has taken the lives of 1.3 million babies annually (Cothran). By the same token, keeping the baby while being incapable of raising the child can be as equally damaging to the child’s success and future. Not only does it affect the child, but it also affects the mother in her education, career, and other goals. Helen Cothran inscribed a list of negative situations that a mother could find herself in when she decides to keep her baby instead of putting them up for adoption. Some of the list follows: they will have employment problems, will require public assistance, will live in poverty, and will remain unmarried (Cothran). On the contrary to keeping the newborn, if mothers were to give the child up for adoption their future would not find itself turning down the wrong road. Cothran writes an additional list of positive positions that a mother could be in. A partial list follows: they will be able to finish school, they will escape the living in poverty and they will be
What do Babe Ruth, Marilyn Monroe, John Lennon, and Steve Jobs have in common? That’s right, they were all adopted. Babe Ruth was placed in an orphanage at seven years old; Marilyn Monroe spent much of her childhood in foster care, while John Lennon’s mother was not able to care for him after his dad went missing on a naval ship. Steve Jobs was the product of an unapproved relationship, so he was put up for adoption at birth (Althouse, Spencer). All of these well-known people struggled through the process of adoption, as well as many others. The adoption process should be shorter because the number of kids in foster care is likely to decrease, is financially taking, and takes a toll on the child and the adoptive family.
When a couple or individual decides to adopt a child, they know they are going to take on the responsibility of taking care of someone else’s child. Due to the biological parent(s) who can’t take care of that child anymore, because of either drug abuse, alcohol abuse, abuse to the child or if the parent(s) had died and there is no other care for the child. So that’s why this gives other couples who cannot have kids, the opportunity to promise themselves to be a great parent to a child in need. Though there are some bad things about adoption as well. Like adopting a child from another country of another race, because once that child is adopted into an American family, he or she will be cut off from their culture and never know about their history. Everyone should to know about their culture and history.
“Pro choice is not set on abortion” (head, 2015, para.20); the movement focuses on the choice the parents believe will give their child the best opportunity. Adoption should always be considered before the abortion which the article does not include. Many women who do have health issues and cannot have children try to adopt, yet the process is long and tiring. While attempting to adopt a couple may overcome the issue of not finding a proper set of parents who they personally enjoy to be the birth parents of the child they are wanting to receive. If a healthy pregnant woman fits the criteria of a family looking to adopt, then she should try to consider that option if she was looking to abort
Ladies and gentlemen, good morning. Adoption recently has caused a hot-spot debate in Australia . Mr Rudd just argued that we should maintain the policy but I don’t agree with him. I am sure many of you are not satisfied with the current situation because we all clear this is not a great one. Adoption is so important because it is a way to change children’s lives. This debate is not about me and Mr Rudd; it’s about you and these children so you should make the best choice. For too long this policy has been disadvantaged to the children who are adopted or going to be adopted and those foster families. It’s the time to change. Relaxing the regulation of adoption within Australia and from overseas will be one of the liberal party’s aiming next term if I get your support. And let me tell you why choosing to relax adoption’s regulation is stepping up in the right direction to change.
The idea of adoption has been around far longer than the formal legal system of adoption in place today. In the bible, there is a passage detailing the adoption of Ester by her cousin, Mordecai, after the death of her parents. Ancient Greeks, Egyptians, Romans, and Babylonians all had their own systems of adoption. Adoption systems differ from country to country. United States citizens who internationally adopt today allow for the blending of cultures, languages, traditions, and ideals. In contrast, the practice of adult adoption in Japan is a particularly interesting system used quite differently and reflects a lot of traditional Japanese culture itself.
Many women who carry unexpected or unwanted children are left to decide between keeping the child, adoption, abortion and maybe foster care. Most of the time the decision is just between adoption and abortion. In that case, the mother is losing the child either way. Most of the time choosing adoption or foster care would be a better choice than abortion because the pregnancy would end by giving life instead of death. Adoption and foster care are an opportunity for people who wish to be parents, but are not able to have a child of their own to finally become parents or people who have children of their own, but want to add-on to their family.
For a mother or father to learn that their adopted child, who they believed was an orphan, actually has a caring and loving family is heartbreaking. Adoptive parents feel guilty. The children yearn for their true home. The biological family feels deceived and desire for their child to return. This situation is far too familiar within intercountry adoption cases. Many children are pulled away from home, put into orphanages, and painted as helpless orphans. The actions perpetrated by adoption agencies reflects an underlying network of corruption and exploitation. This is not for the purpose of discouraging international adoption, but to shed light on the horrific practices taking place behind the scenes. Intercountry adoptions are often tangled
During the 1960's and 1970's another monumental shift changed the views of adoption. With unwed mothers lessening and the legalization of abortion by the 1973 Roe v. Wade trial, the number of healthy, white infants adoptees dropped. Even though there wasn't that many white babies to be adopted, African-American babies swa...
There are so many families that are not able to have their own children, but adoption is a great way for child loving families to have the opportunity to raise and bond with children in need of parents. Since there are so many families wanting to adopt a child, there is no reason anyone can fairly say that a child could ever be unwanted. In 2011 a total of “730,322 abortions were reported to Centers for Disease Control” and only 9,319 children were adopted. Adoptions are always great for children and safe for them as well. Background checks and extensive research is always mandatory before child services allow adults to adopt, and when they are clear to make an adoption, a child’s life is changed and in most cases they are saved. It is a mystery why anyone would choose death over life and abortion over adoption. To abort a baby is to not only take the child’s opportunity at life away, but to also take away another family’s chance at having their own
Being a mother is a lifelong job that requires copious time, energy, and money. There are myriad different reasons in which a woman would consider getting an abortion. The decision is often tragic and painful for the mother. It is one of the biggest choices a woman will make. Many people have strong beliefs about abortion, and if a mother makes a decision that they do not agree with they sometimes turn against the mother, and enkindle egregious feelings about their decision for the rest of their life. Indeed a woman may not get an abortion for selfish reasons or out of convenience, but out of a desire to protect certain important values such as her own health or a decent standard of living for the other members of the family. Additional intentions for having abortion include rape, financial difficulties, obligation by family members, or danger to the baby’s health (Roleff
Many people grow up in loving families and cannot imagine not having their parents and siblings around, but each year, 18,000 or more American born babies are put up for adoption (Newlin Carney). That means at least 18,000 children face the harsh truth of maybe not having a family to grow up in. Childhood is a very important part of one’s life and helps shape who one is. These children that are eligible to be adopted just need loving parents, good homes, and stability. And who is to say the high price of adopting is not ho...
Every day, an overwhelming amount of human beings’ lives are terminated. The culprit: unwanted pregnancies. Many woman are (not by choice), becoming pregnant as a result of unsafe sex, rape, and other things. So what is one to do when they discover that they’re pregnant? They have some alternatives: (1) have the child and raise it (2) have the child, then give it up for adoption (3) get an abortion. Sadly, many women choose alternative three, unaware of what they’re getting themselves into.
If you have ever considered adopting a newborn, or a child under the age of three, then you have undoubtedly recognized that the price affiliated with this type of adoption is outrageously expensive. Some adoptions costing in the upper $40,000 range. When there are so many children in foster care already, why are the costs of adoption so extreme? How is the adoption process broken down into these fees? What do adoptive candidates have to go through in order to adopt a baby? Is the foster care system failing the children it currently serves? Why are more birth mothers choosing the unsightly demise of abortion rather than adoption? Do these women who choose abortion know all their options when it comes to their unborn child? Is there enough
This is unlike the case for the rich, who can travel to other places where they can procure safe abortions. In addition, the prohibition of abortion often defeats the purpose of bringing up a child. A child is often considered a fruit of love and passion among two consenting adults. However, in cases where a woman feels that she does not want or does not have the capacity to bring up a child, it goes without saying more children would be brought up in situations and homes that are less than loving. Indeed, the prohibition would result in unwanted children, which are often the most tragic cases in the society (Norgren et al, 2001).
When pregnancy is unwanted women perceive the choice of abortion as the least of three evils: abortion, adoption, or keeping the child (Smith, 2000). Pregnancy changes a woman's life, regardless of whether or not it ends in abortion. The woman making the abortion decision looks at a variety of relationships to help her make the decision. Often, she will discuss her options with a physician or counselor. If she does decide to get an abortion, there are many factors she will have to face. According to an article in Business 2.0, written by David Shribman (2000), women who have had abortions are at greater risk of suffering emotional and psychological problems which may interfere with their ability to concentrate, make decisions, and interact with others. As a result, it reduces the woman's level of job skills and employment opportunities. Post-abortion women are more likely to engage in drug and alcohol abuse, often as a result of the guilt and negative feelings held inside of them after the abortion. This may prevent them from entering other meaningful relationships. They are likely to become pregnant again and undergo additional abortions and are more likely to never marry, more likely divorce, and m...