Lindsey Fleming
Specific Goal Statement: To persuade and encourage the class to consider child adoption.
I. Introduction
A. Are you aware that there are millions of children just in the U.S. that need loving families and a home?
B. Locating information about an adoption in your family takes time. As an adoptee I have become increasingly aware how many children are in the system.
C. We must understand that adopting a child is hard on both mother and child. But can also make it better for the mother or child.
D. Today I’m going to take you through a basic step overview of the adoption process and the types of adoption. My hope is that by learning a little bit of what the adoption process can be like and how and where you can adopt, and …show more content…
Agency adoption is where the process is arranged by a public or private adoption agency.
D. Private adoption is one that is arranged through a middle person such as a lawyer, physician, or other facilitator, rather than a licensed adoption agency.
E.Fost-adopt adoption is where a child is placed into a home as a foster child, with the expectation that the child will become legally free and be adopted by the foster parents.
2. International adoption is the type where you adopt from another country. There are two different types of processes for international adoption.
A. The Hague Convention adoption process (convention adoptions). This process requires consent from the birthparent or legal guardian
B. Non-Hague adoption process is where the child either has not parents or has a sole or surviving parent who is unable to car for the child and has, in writing, irrevocably released the child for emigration and adoption.
C. Adoption is not a problem. Adoption is a solution.
1. There are people all over this country who would like to be parents, and who would be fine parents, but who are not able to grow babies.
2. There are children all over this world who no longer have parents, or whose parents are unable to care for