I have always loved and gotten along with children. I have volunteered and worked for years doing child care and Sunday school at my church. At heart, I feel like I am still a kid myself. A second reason is my family’s ties with adoption. Two of my fraternal cousins were adopted from South Korea and my two youngest siblings were adopted from Ghana. Even my best friend has three adopted siblings, so my family is deeply immersed in the adoption world. Finally, I have had the incredible opportunity for the past two summers to spend two weeks both years on a mission trip in Romania. It was here that I learned about the adoption predicament going on in the country and grew close with several orphan girls we served alongside. I am so passionate about this issue because I have friends involved and I wish that they could be as fortunate as my …show more content…
How can we convince Romania to completely reopen its adoption agencies? For a while, only direct family members were allowed to adopt Romanian orphans. Very recently the country opened up international adoption, but only in the sense that Romanian residents of other countries could adopt from their motherland. The next step is to convince Romania to allow all international adoption. Unfortunately, this is exceedingly difficult because the nation is still struggling to escape the confines of their communist era. In order to solve this major problem, the Romanian leaders need to be convinced that they can trust other countries with the care of their orphans. This will take a lot of time and will only come one small step at a time but I truly believe that it can be