Adoption

Adoption

Alvin Tardy

Mrs. Julia Harrington

English I

November 5, 2012

Adoption

Giving birth to a child or children and deciding to place them up for adoption is an extremely serious matter. This means that a mother has carried her baby for nine months, gives birth to him or her, and signs over her legal rights. When a person decides to adopt, he or she is practically taking custody of someone else child or children. I am saddened at the thought of anyone giving their own flesh up for adoption. No child asks to be a part of this world, therefore he or she does not deserve to grow up without being with his or her biological parent. To begin with, the history of the adoption process, list and explain the different forms of adoption, and what would be the effects that adoption has on the biological parents and the children.

First, adoption is the process whereby parents are matched with children who biological parents that is unable to provide for their care. Adoption is an ancient arrangement spoken of in the Bible. The Greeks, Romans, Egyptians, and Babylon have all had adoption systems. The concept was not recognizing until the 1850s. While translators of the children to substitute parents had occurred informally since American colonial times, adoption statutes legitimized their formal adoptive arrangements with previously existed.

Domestic adoption is the first form of adoption available in the US. This involves adopting from within the fifty states or in the US territories. Closed adoption versus open adoption is next. Closed adoption takes place when there is no identifying information about the birth family. Open adoption allows some form of association between the birth family, adoptees, and adoptive parents. Another type is agency versus private adoption. An agency adoption is when the adoption is arranged by a public or private agency. Lastly, the foster-adopt adoption. This form of adoption is when a child is...