ADOPTION

Adoption

Adoption

Introduction

Adoption means giving of a lasting steady home to a child by providing him the chance to fulfill his potentials. Adoption is the legal process by which parental responsibility for a child or young person is vested in a new parent or parents. It is an enduring, lifelong pledge to that child. An adoption arrangement removes parental liability from anyone previously exercising it, including the child's birth parents. In terms of legal course an adoption is a lifelong commitment to a child and creation of a new and legal binding parent and child affiliation. A court asks the court to finalize the adoption proceeding initiated by the prospective adoptive family.

Americans adopt more than 100,000 kids a year. This may seem like a large number of adoptive families but there are still over 400,000 kids left in foster care or in shelters. With this in mind it seems like Americans should be desperate to place the homeless kids in a family. But through trial and error it has become known that only certain families should be allowed to adopt and in some cases kids are better off left in foster care. “In 1917 Minnesota was the first state to require an agency or state welfare department to make written recommendations to court after investigation”. This will ensure families giving their child up for adoption that they aren't giving their kid to just anyone willing to adopt. People who seem to be fit to adopt also have to be able to afford adoption. “The average cost to adopt through an agency is between $5,000 to $6,000”. Many parents take risks and allow their kids to be open for adoption to anyone the laws deem appropriate. But approximately 75% of adoptions were the kind where parents give guardianship to another family member.

Although the costs do seem outrageous, the reasons behind a parent's decision to give kids up for adoption are pretty simple. Some pressures to give a baby up for adoption include: unmarried, the need to finish school, financial problems, or the feeling of not being able to be a proper parent. (http://www.lifetimeadoption.com/highlights.html) It would be hard to tell whether one made the right decision by choosing to give her kid up for adoption until years after the process took place. And even then one couldn't truly compare both families, adoptive vs. biological. Although many parents realize giving their kid up for adoption is the best decision, some young girls have been persuaded to keep their baby by a social worker instead of giving it up. And in some cases a girl not able to care for her baby keeps him anyway, causing more problems in the long run.

Different Aspects-Adoption

Legal Aspect: Adoptive parents take all rights and responsibilities for the child, plus the right to consent to main medical treatment and marriage. The child can be claimed as a dependent for income tax purposes, and also can claim to inherit from adoptive parents The birth parents do not have visitation ...