2006-10-25 09:14:09 · 13 answers · asked by kissmybum 4 in Social Science ➔ Sociology
Have you any idea the ridiculus hoops you have to jump through? hundreds of people are rejected due to age, faith, race, gender, beliefs, etc.. and so consiquently there are hundreds of children not given the opportunity of a loving, caring, stable family home simply because of the prejudices of the adoption system. It is exactly the same, if not a whole lot worse here in the UK. By the time you've gone through the processes and checks and training nessesary, it's taken so long, they reject you for being over 37...
2006-10-25 09:31:32 · answer #1 · answered by Josie 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think it's most often because people want to adopt babies and don't want to have to worry about the baggage that comes with an older child. Also, just because a child is in need of foster care doesn't mean that child is adoptable. Another possibility is the fact that in the United States adoptions are open. This means that the parent can have access to the child after that child is adopted by new parents. Just a few thoughts, hope they help.
2006-10-25 09:25:01 · answer #2 · answered by Lori 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't think we should ever give up. There are too many stories of families who meet a 17 year old teen and rush to adopt him/her only to finalize 2 weeks before his/her 18th birthday. I do think more money needs to be funneled in to training more workers to only work with teens who are 13 and older to start learning skills and beginning those realizations that a teen can only get from being in a permanent home- like what are you going to do when you are 18 or graduate high school?? What about college or vocational secondary schooling?? Who could take care of you if you became ill at 20 years old that you could trust?? Learning to open a checking account, getting their driver's license, getting an apartment and turning on utilities, developing a work ethic (interviewing for and getting a job). Where I am from, there is a program that does this as mentioned above but it is not as big as it needs to be. Trips are planned to get teens together at symposiums that talk about living independently. The state picks up the secondary schooling/college tab for most of these kids. There is a small unit that identifies these kids, but there are so many and IMO there is not a fine tuned group of workers to focus on only the teens who will likely age out. If there is ever a chance to find a child a home then we owe it to these kids to do whatever it takes.
2016-05-22 13:30:15 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know unless the adoption process is faster in foreign countries. I believe we should take care of our own children first. I have been a foster mom but don't have a large enough home to provide each child with their own room. I would have loved to adopt lots of children but the man I was married to when I was younger wasn't a nice man so it wouldn't have been good for the kids. I have always regretted that I couldn't adopt. Now I am to old.
2006-10-25 11:28:09 · answer #4 · answered by bramblerock 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most people who adopt want babies. Many people want babies of the same race or closer to their race.
Sadly, most of the children in the foster care system are no longer babies and people don't seem to want to adopt them.
Countries like China have many, many female babies available due to the governement forcing them to only have 1 child and the fact that parents rely on male children as their retirment plans. Babies from other countries tend to come from drug problems or alcoholism.
2006-10-25 09:25:26 · answer #5 · answered by lumos 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
So they can be seen to be doing something. It is often about them not the child. Madonna could sponsor 100 kids but she chose to get her head on TV. It's all about what motivation they have. She could have done much more good by sponsoring 100 kids through some agency but she chose to take film crews over to get her head on TV didn't she. What do u think was her motivation? The kids welfare or her own profile?
2006-10-25 09:46:44 · answer #6 · answered by johnno K 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No one has made the news by adopting here in the U.S. Blame it on the press. If they started covering adoptions here in this country as front page news, maybe we can get something done.
2006-10-25 09:21:46 · answer #7 · answered by struth 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It seems to me it's because you get a foreign vacation into the bargain.
2006-10-25 09:21:30 · answer #8 · answered by silvercomet 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
because it makes them feel better about themselves, like they're helping the global problem, while in reality they're just turning a blind eye to the problems we have here.
2006-10-25 12:57:40 · answer #9 · answered by Clay P 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you'd change your avatar to something besides a hot @$$ I might be able to actually think and answer this one. (male obviously)
2006-10-25 11:47:22 · answer #10 · answered by twocircuits 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋