Overall, gay adoption is an option to consider. Since gay adoption is increasing adoption rates have raised drastically. Compared to others, gay parents have even excel in many aspects of parenting. There are many positives and negatives that go along with this issue. To further this subject matter there should be more awareness that gay adoption is a valuable option.…
With the combination of the CAPTA and the 1980 legislation there was the thought that foster care was harmful to children which is by no means supported by research. In fact, foster care was much safer than leaving a child with their biological family in which abuse has occurred. Many families were not offered extensive services to help the child and/or the family. This act was responsible for state services and created financial incentives which encouraged legislators to promote stable child welfare services for children. “This resulted in larger prevention efforts, expanded program eligibility standards, support for finding adoptive homes, increased availability of placements for special needs and minority populations, increased kin and family…
Adoption records should be open to give adoptees the ability to know where they come from. Various state laws create many paths or roadblocks to determining biological parental information. Knowledge is more important than privacy.…
The night Jennings was left out in a foster home, his mother swore to come back for him. But to Jennings dismay, he had to get used to being in foster homes for a while. He couldn’t have thought of being there and he couldn’t have thought that love only meant being alone, but his 8-year old mind didn’t know that. He didn’t know that he was going to jump from foster home to foster home. He didn’t know he would stay there until he concluded what love was to him on his own. Jennings Michael Burch was in the foster homes because his mother didn’t have the right necessities and the foster homes didn’t either. Jennings situation is not uncommon, but it can’t happen all the time. In the year of 2014, over 650,000 children spent their time in a U.S.…
According to the Cambridge dictionary, adoption is “the act of taking another person's child legally into your family to raise as your own child.” It quickly became a very popular thing to do in the mid-1900s. Since then, adoption has been a very common topic of conversation, more so of argument. Similar to a myriad of other controversial topics, people have their own opinions; many people are actually against adoption and could sit down and write a whole list of reasons why adopting a child is a terrible idea. However, many of those people never take into account all of the positives that come with adopting a child. Adoption is an amazing, indescribable act that I look forward to being a part of in the future. Just like almost everything in this imperfect world, adoption has its cons. As well, adoption has its pros; I believe that the more people partake in it, the better we can make the lives of children in need.…
Are you an Authoritative or Permissive when it comes to parenting your child? In ways they are positive and negative for the child as they are growing up. Each way gives a perspective on situation should be handled; but in most of these cases when a child is told to do something it is hard for them to “Comprehend” how it needs to be done. That is when parenting comes into play and the child when then to receive and retain or to deny and rebel…Even though it is an action a parent can control sometimes how they bring up the child from birth sets them in a distinct path which is hard to get out of.…
January 8th 2002, then President George W. Bush proposed a bill that was shortly approved by Congress and later enacted as a law that we today refer as the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001. Title 1 is the first and most debated article of this provision, and '' The purpose of this title is to ensure that all children have a fair, equal, and significant opportunity to obtain a high-quality education and reach, at a minimum, proficiency on challenging State academic achievement standards and state academic assessments" (107th Congress, 2002). In other words, the bill was established with the purpose of ensuring that no child is left behind by implementing services, with a combined effort from the school, parents, and student, which will assure…
Opponents of transracial adoption argue that children should be placed in homes of the same racial and cultural backgrounds, otherwise know as “race-matching”. They believe “such placement enhances the development of positive racial identity and coping skills to deal with racism in society” (Johnson, Mickelson, & Davila 2013, p. 8). Randall Kennedy, a professor of law at Harvard University, argued against “race-matching” and what he termed “racialism”: Racial matching reinforces racialism. It strengthens the baleful notion that race is destiny.…
You claim that the foster care system is failing and yet you do nothing to try and save it. It’s like watching a person drown but doing nothing to rescue them. You are watching these children suffer, but have not taken any measures to ease their suffering. Instead, all you do is complain. It is fantastic that you have noticed them because they need the attention.…
Definition: Foster care is defined as care for delinquents or neglected children usually in an institution or substitute home. Children in our foster care system receive long lasting effects of abuse and neglect but in some cases the foster care system has been proven to minimize the negative results of inappropriate use of child care.…
Transracial adoption can be defined as the joining of racially different parents and children together in adoptive families (Silverman, 1993). Before 1920 adopting a child adopting who is not related only occurred with children who had no relatives capable of the taken care of them. The child would usually be adopted by a family that needed extra help maintaining their business or maintain their property. Transracial adoption became prevalent following paramount events such as World War II, the Civil Rights Movement and the Indian Placement Act, which opened white people’s eyes to the need of minorities living in the United States and abroad. Andrew Morrison transracial adoption Pro and cons of …..…
We as a society have this false sense of reality that everyone is treated equal, but I often ponder if we are truly equal? Everyone in the world today fears what they cannot understand. People have this enormous cowardice of homosexuality. If we as a nation are looked upon as being righteous, then why do we treat same sex relationships unfairly? Nowadays, same sex relationships are a natural occurrence. Everywhere in today’s media it is very easy to hear and see about the events, news, and controversy surrounding the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community and their right to marriage and adoption. Many people support the idea of equality for all regardless…
According to Children’s Rights “In 2013 more than 23,000 young people whom states failed to reunite with their families or place in permanent homes — aged out of foster care, simply because they were too old to remain. The percentage of youth that age out of foster care increased from eight percent in 2003, to ten percent in 2013. Youth who age out of foster care are less likely to graduate from high school and less likely to attend of graduate college. By age 26, approximately 80 percent of young people who aged out of foster care earned at least a high school degree or GED compared to 94 percent in the general population.” Providing children in the United States with a family domestically is the best thing to do not only for…
For all the kids in abusive, neglected, or abandoned home situations, the foster care system is there to help. It gives kids a temporary stable home until a permanent home can be found. Foster parents dedicate their time and open their home up to children they do not know just to try to better that child’s life. Even though this system has done numerous great things for children throughout America, there are any issues with the foster care system. Children that age out of foster care need more guidance and support to have a chance at a successful future. Additionally, the foster parents need support through this process. They try their best at creating a stable home for these children, but they face hurdles just like the foster children do.…
Transracial adoption also known as TRA, is defined as the adoption of children of a different race or culture from their adoptive parents, has been a controversial issue in the United States. Social workers are usually the one that match the child with the “parents” when it comes to adoption. The number of adoptive parents does not relate with the number of adoptive minority children. Therefore, more parents of a different race are able to adopt them. Many social workers see transracial adoption as an ideal solution to the lack of adoptive homes for children of color. However, that is not the case with all social workers. There are some social workers that do not agree with TRA regardless of laws that have been set. They can prevent the placement of children of color with families of a different race by deciding they are not fit for different reasons. They are overlooking the reality of the situation. The reality is that there are children in America that need homes, and homes that need children. These social workers would rather have these children raised by the system than belong to a loving family all due to their argument that children should remain with their race to sustain their cultural background. Children need more than their cultural background. They need love, stability, and a good home.…