Persuasive Essay On Adoption

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Recommended: Positive reasons for adoption

Maya Hunter
Mrs. Scott-Jackson
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9 January 2014
Adoption
Imagine your face red as a tomato, tears gushing all down your face, snot oozing out of your nose, barely able to breathe all because today is Mothers Day. Everybody’s making breakfast for their mother giving gifts to them and watching them smile as they open them. Imagine you as a five year old sitting there in school while all the other students are making cards in class saying how much they love their mother. You just sit there hopelessly wishing your parents were still alive. Flashbacks come back to haunt you, “bang!” “Bang!” “Boom!” “Boom!” “Pop!” “Pop!” playing inside your head like a broken record, it’s the day you killed your mother. Child services come and put you in the back of a black Toyota license plate Soc19W. You stare out the window watching your life flash before your eyes. You even remember pulling up at a 5 story building built out of red bricks bright red letters on the door C.W.S the acronym for Child Welfare Services. This is very scary Right? imagine you going through this traumatic event. Many kids go to foster care because something as traumatic as this happened to them. Some kids stay in foster care and never get adopted. Adoption is a good cause you help a poor little child have closure and a loving home and family.
Adoption is a very emotional and long process to go through. Many people adopt for different reasons. Some adopt because they are not able to have children of their own, or they can be gay or lesbian couples or they are adopting their spouse’s child/children. Adopting your partner's children is often a big step in your relationship with your new partner, and it can be a big legal step too (Snider).
There are many reasons for peo...

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... The final and most important step in the adoption process (Child Welfare Information Gateway).

Works Cited

Caldwell,Mardie. “Adoption:Your step by step Guide.” USA Today Magazine,2010
Facts about adoption” Children Rights. www.childrenrights.org/issues-resources/adoption/facts-about-adoption
Child Welfare Information Gateway. “Adoption: where do I start?” Child Welfare Information Gateway. 2010.12 Nov.2013 Child Welfare Gateway. www.childwelfare.gov/pubs/f_start.cfm
Snider,Brett,Esq.”Legal How-to:Adopting as a stepdad.” 12,June,2013. 12 Nov.2013 http://blogs.findlaw.com/law_and_life/2013/06/legal-how-to-adopting-as-a-stepdad.html
“Stepparent Aoption FAQ’s” family.findlaw.com http://family.findlaw.com/adoption/stepparent- adoption-faq-s.html
“Parental rights and responsibilites.” Gov.UK. 8 Nov.2013 12 Nov.2013. www.gov.uk/parental- rights- responsibilites

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