Monday, November 14, 2011

Domestic Adoption

Domestic adoption is adopting through the country you live in and are a citizen of. Usually domestic adoptions are completed through a private adoption, an agency adoption, or through the foster care system. Each of these options presents a different processes, laws and challenges. The next couple of day’s we’ll talk about these differences and similarities that accompany each of these options.

When it comes to domestic adoption many times the media portrays a false perspective. It portrays these 15,16,17 year old girls in high school that have gotten pregnant who are forced to “give up” their child to a couple who is baby hungry and will do anything to get that teenagers baby.

The first falsehood is that not all birth mothers at teenagers, most are actually in their late teen to mid-twenties. The second falsehood is how birth mothers "give up" their babies. They make it sound like it’s all about the birth mother and forget that there is very dear and precious child involved. These birth parents are not “giving up” their babies; they are giving their babies more. By saying they “gave up” their baby, it completely villainies an absolutely selfless act. Words cannot describe how wonderful birth mothers are.

But domestic adoption is much more then infant adoption there is also adoption through the foster care system. The children that are in the foster care system are there because life at home with their birth parents was not fit for the proper development and safety of the children. There are hundreds of thousands of children available for adoption through the foster care system and they are looking for a forever family too.

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