Pros And Cons Of International Adoption
U.S. Adoption
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 …show more content…
Foreign countries often have less stringent requirements than American agencies. In addition, international home studies are often less rigorous than domestic ones. Admittedly, there are some countries with strict restrictions regarding which people may adopt their children. Nevertheless, the large number of countries that are willing to allow Americans to adopt their orphaned children increases most people’s chances of meeting the standards of eligibility for adoptive parents in at least one country. As such, international adoption provides an alternate source of children for Americans who may not qualify as eligible adoptive parents under domestic …show more content…
International birth parents usually have their rights transferred to agencies or orphanages before the prospective parents are ever involved in trying to obtain the child. As these fears are normal for anyone want to be parents the best part of adopting domestically is that a person wanting to be a new parent gets to participate in the newborn or infants adoption.
A family that adopts in the U.S. is a part of something big; it gives someone the feeling they are needed, improves our education in the United States, lower the amount of citizens that end up homeless, and lower the amount of people that will go to prison. Everyone should adopt domestically; to better the country and lives of the American
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 …show more content…
Foreign countries often have less stringent requirements than American agencies. In addition, international home studies are often less rigorous than domestic ones. Admittedly, there are some countries with strict restrictions regarding which people may adopt their children. Nevertheless, the large number of countries that are willing to allow Americans to adopt their orphaned children increases most people’s chances of meeting the standards of eligibility for adoptive parents in at least one country. As such, international adoption provides an alternate source of children for Americans who may not qualify as eligible adoptive parents under domestic …show more content…
International birth parents usually have their rights transferred to agencies or orphanages before the prospective parents are ever involved in trying to obtain the child. As these fears are normal for anyone want to be parents the best part of adopting domestically is that a person wanting to be a new parent gets to participate in the newborn or infants adoption.
A family that adopts in the U.S. is a part of something big; it gives someone the feeling they are needed, improves our education in the United States, lower the amount of citizens that end up homeless, and lower the amount of people that will go to prison. Everyone should adopt domestically; to better the country and lives of the American