Open Adoption Benefits Every Party Involved

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The definition of adoption "is a social, emotional, and legal progress though which children who will not be raised by their birth parents become full, permanent and legal members of another family" ("Ethical"). Adoption is a common way to gain a child when normal means do not or cannot work. "The past decade has seen the rise of a broad and loose coalition of activists out to change the way adoptions work in America" (Matcher). The increase is largely because if the growing infertility issue. "Infertility is a growing social issue that has encouraged the increasing commercialization of children through nontraditional adoption practices as well as through the proliferation of productive technologies" (Holbrook). "Adoption in America has changed vastly since the end of the so-called "Baby Scoop Era" in the early 1970s, when many pregnant women were "sent away" and their babies offered up for adoption as a matter of course" (Matcher). The concept of adoption is no longer perceived this way. Women are no longer sent away, they are now given options. Although some would say that they are forced into an unethical adoption process. In order for the adoption process to work and be considered ethical, people must be patient, be willing to listen and demand answers, and be willing to walk away when they know so,etching is wrong.
One of the best ways to start the adoption process is to research agencies, ask questions to families that have already adopted, find out if international adoption is the way to go. There are so many different routes to go the possibilities are endless. Always ask questions, no matter how small or unimportant it may be, the regret felt by not asking can be worse than knowing the answer. Keep looking until every...

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