Adoption
Adoption is the process of taking legal responsibility for the care and protection of a child that is not one's own by birth. More than 120,000 children are adopted in the United States each year. Adoption has been the subject of intense public debate in recent times over issues ranging from privacy to freedom of information to race and sexual orientation.
For much of the twentieth century, adoption was a practice shrouded in secrecy. Under what are now called "closed" adoptions, the identities of the birth parents and adoptive parents were kept from each other by the adoption agencies that made the arrangements. Adoptees were sometimes never told by their parents…>> (read more)
Adoption Points of View
5 Prejudice Against Adoption and Adopted Families Should Be Challenged
6 Transracial Adoptions Can Be Beneficial
7 More Foster Children Should Be Placed in Adoptive Homes
8 Pregnant Women Should Not Be Coerced into Placing Their Children Up for Adoption
9 International Adoption Is Harmful and Exploitive
10 Transracial Adoption Should Not Be Encouraged
11 More Regulation of International Adoption Agencies Is Necessary
12 Federal Government Must Regulate Adoption
13 Adoption Workers Are Wrongly Biased in Favor of Gays and Lesbians
14 More Federal Regulation May Displace Small International Adoption Agencies
15 Government Regulations and Procedures for Adoption Are Too Cumbersome
16 Infant Adoption Should Be Deregulated
17 Arguments Against Opening Adoption Records Are Spurious
18 Right of Adoptees to Access Their Personal Information Should Be Unconditional
19 Voluntary Registries Are an Inadequate Substitute for Open Records Laws
20 Opening Adoption and Birth Records Violates the Privacy Rights of Birth Mothers
21 Removing Privacy Protections Will Threaten the Future of Infant Adoption
22 Voluntary Registry System Is Preferable to Open Records Laws
23 Sexual Orientation Should Not Be a Barrier to Adoption
24 Restrictions on Gay and Lesbian Adoptions Are Unconstitutional
25 Legalizing Gay Adoptions Will Strengthen and Stabilize Families
26 Restrictions on Gay and Lesbian Adoption Are Not Unconstitutional
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Adoption in the News
Editor - I am puzzled by the reaction of the adoption community (" 'Orphan' a blow to adoptive families, July 31).
I have a much-beloved cousin adopted…>> (read more)
Staff of the National Association of Public Child Welfare Administrators has been working diligently over the past several months to capture information on how states are implementing the Fostering…>> (read more)
'Orphan' a blow to adoptive families
Editor - I am utterly outraged at Mick LaSalle's review in the San Francisco Chronicle of the movie "Orphan" (Devil in…>> (read more)
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