Adoption: Types, Process and Importance

We have the potential to help out people of all ages, race and gender around the world. I feel that adoption is a wonderful way to help out mothers who cannot afford children at a certain time such as teenage mothers who are still in school. Adoption gives people a second chance. A mother that is giving up their child for adoption can give them huge opportunities to get their lives in order before they have another child. Also, the children that are adopted will be placed into a loving and caring family and will live a better life than they would have with their birth parents, that couldn’t provide them with everything they need. In most cases children will not be placed in an adoptive family if the court doesn’t feel as if the household that’s trying to adopt is mentally, emotionally, and financially stabled.

There are many different types of adoption. The most common ones are open adoption, closed adoption, and semi-open adoption. Open adoption is when the child has the chance to develop a one-on-one relationship with their birth parents. Closed adoption is where the adoptive parents and the birth parents have not met and they don’t have intentions of the child coming in contact with their birth parents. Semi-open adoption is when a child is placed in an adoptive family and the adoptive parents will write letters or send pictures of the child developing. The other types of adoption are: International, Waiting Child Adoption, Step Child Adoption, and lastly Adopting an Adult. Intercountry and Domestic adoption are types of adoption also. They’re both somewhat similar and somewhat different. They both consist of the legal transfer of parental rights and responsibilities from a child’s birth parent or to another guardian. The o...

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...are adopted into families don’t know they’re adopted until they get a little older. Reason is the older the child is, the more they will understand. Teens that are told they are adopted may take it the hard way and feel unwanted and unaccepted, and may feel they don’t have the acceptance of other. Also a teen may experience a feeling different from their peers. People already know that there is not another time in life do people want to fit in, be part of a group as they do in the adolescent years. Being adopted creates many feelings of being different. Often an adopted child may look differently than their adopted parents as they may be a different race or culture, but in some cases they are. The feelings that arise around these differences need to be addressed or it can affect a child's sense of self worth and security within the adoptive family in a negative way.