Why do people from the united states adopt kids overseas and not here in the us?

Question

I am just wondering. THere are so many here in the us that needs homes, why go all the way to china? or somehwres so far away?

Why not help someone close to home?

How can a child from the united states be an ungratefu child when they do not have a family and are living in foster homes where most likely they are being abused? Think about others for once yourself. That makes no sense that what you said

Answer 1

There are hundreds of thousands of kids in the US that need families. Unfortunately in most cases these kids are not infants, and/or they need special medical compensations.

Many foreign countries do allow people to adopt infants, so if you want a baby many look outside the US. If you want to help out a child in need though, you need only look outside your back door.

Answer 2

The primary reason is it is easier. In this country it can take years to get a child and many times that child has been abused and has emotional issues. If you go abroad chances are that child was put up because they were poor and they are leading a horrible life that might scar them but they are not violent or anything like that.
The average time for overseas adoption is like two years versus the like 5 or more in the US. The only way to speed up the US adoption is if you do a private adoption which is costly. Overseas is also costly but you still save a few thousand dollars

Answer 3

I was checking out adoption at one time and I looked through the US and it just seemed so difficult. I also checked out international and decided that if I did, I would adopt from Bulgaria. I have a best friend there. I ended up deciding not too. But I guess like some have said, in the US yes the children can jump from foster family to foster family, but they do have homes. The children in Bulgaria for example, live in very bad conditions in orphanages and they dont have much at all. Its a terrible thing there. Maybe that is why some think of international adoption because they feel sorry for the children in that type of situation.

Answer 4

Why do you want to adopt from India or any other country when there are tens of thousands of foster children in your home country who need homes and loving families? A child in India (for example, since you mentioned the country) doesn't know English, has different customs than you do, and their culture is completely different. They may have a different religion and they will almost certainly look different than you. Why put all that on a child? If you want to help a child in India, donate money. Volunteer to build an irrigation ditch or housing in his village. Give clothing or food to needy families there. But don't take their children away in order for you to feel good about yourself. Most international adoptions are unnecessary. If the people in lesser developed countries had the resources to keep their children, they would! Due to lack of funds, many people leave their children in orphanages or on the streets, hoping that someone will take them in. Taking them in and taking them to another country are two very different things. If you want to adopt from India, move to India. Learn the language of the area in which you'll live and learn the local customs. THEN adopt an Indian child in need and raise him in his native country. The child shouldn't have to sacrifice everything he's ever known just so YOU can be a parent.

Answer 5

Because there is such trememdous need overseas. And because the US adoption system is crap.
My family has friends who started the adoption process 3 years ago in the US. They have been held up for various stupid reasons the whole way through. They were only recently told that is would not work. They even had kids picked out from the very first. They invested three years of dreams and hopes and expectations, not to mention money, into these kids that they are not going to get.
My family on the other hand, went through TWO entire, start to finish adoptions overseas.
It is so much quicker and more efficient, heck, it's even cheaper.

Answer 6

Adoption overseas is just as expensive as here in the us.
You have to have a house check an international agency and a lawyer.
You have to make a minimum of 2 international trips that vary in length from 1week to a month.Differnt countries have differnt fules some make you come over more and stay longer than others.
The difference between overseas adoption and those in the us is that once you adopt the child he or she is yours.There is not a father coming back saying that he wants custody or visitation due to the fact he was not informed of the child.There are no mothers coming back and saying that they were coked up and did not know what they were doing when they did it.
Some countries have a time where you are awarded temp. custody and then after that final but most of them award you custody before you leave with the child and that is it. They are yours forever.
In the us in a lot of cases the biological parents have a year to come back and sue for reversal and who wants to go through that pain.NOT me. I will go international every time!!!

Answer 7

Kids from Africa and other third world countries have it a little bit rougher then our orphans here. They starve (most of our orphans do not), they don't have any sense of family (at least ours are in a foster care program), and they are just not going to even have the possibility of being adopted by their own people.

I don't know about you but I would much rather help out a truly family-less and starving child then an ungrateful American child. Think of someone other then yourself for once. Sure, adoption in America is great and needed BUT so is adopting from other countries. It's all as important and the whole "adopt our own" thing isn't working too well for me.

Along with the noble reasons to adopt from another country--the adoption process here is far more expensive. It also isn't quick or easy.

I answered this question a few days ago--this was my response to them as it will be for you. Adoption is needed worldwide. Not only is it necessary here in America but in other countries where most children will never be adopted or die before they are even 18.

Answer 8

There are not many healthy infants available for adoption in the US because of abortion and welfare for single Moms. Most couples dream of a little baby. The wait for an infant is very long. Also many states, which regulate adoptions, do not allow parents of one race to adopt children of another race.

It is way quicker, cheaper and easier to adopt from some foreign countries. Then they can say it was because they wanted to help a poor child from where ever in the 3rd world.

Answer 9

To adopt a child in the US, you must open your life up to investigation, it is a long difficult process with no guarantee that you will be approved to adopt a child. The adult is required to attend classes, to be tested, some places even require a medical exam.

While some people who adopt, mostly the everyday person who is just looking to be able to be a parent, adopt through their christian organization who has outreaches in other countries.

As for the celebrities who adopt, I would say that they adopt in other countries for one of two reasons.

1. They are looking for the media coverage that they will certainly get for adopting a child from an "underdeveloped country"

or

2. They are aware that their lifestyle, while it may be envied by most, may not meet the criteria of a adoption agency in the US. And they are trying to avoid the public embarrassment of being turned down as a adoptive parent.

Answer 10

I think people adopt from overseas, because they believe that the children overseas are in a worse situation than kids in our own country. I'm not sure if that's true or not, I suppose it depends on your viewpoint, but I've also heard that adopting from the United States is very difficult. I don't know what the adoption procedures are in China, or Africa, or any other country that people choose to adopt from.