Biological children need and deserve fit parents just as much. If there are unfit parents, then the child should be given to a better family. And why not? There's plenty of willing people waiting to adopt. It won't just be beneficial for the children, but for our society in the long run given that more often than not good parents=good cycle.
2006-12-05 01:20:40 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
they make sure that adopted children get qualified parents because they want to make sure they are going to good homes-unfortunately their screening processes need a bit of work given how many children die each year under their foster or adoptive parents care.... A lot of adopted children are taken away from their biological parents, it doesn't always happen- alot of them go into foster care and are unadoptable.... and for good reason.. if the government decided that you were a bad parent for whatever you did and took your child away from you and put him/her up for adoption, without giving you a chance...would that be fair-absolutely not and if you want the government to control every aspect of our lives then you go ahead and petition for it.. I would like to see how many signatures you get.... what's to keep them from deciding, you are a single mother so you are a bad parent, you lost your job, so you are a bad parent, you went out drinking last night, you are a bad parent...
2006-12-05 01:27:34 · answer #1 · answered by katjha2005 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The answer is that the adoption process involves the "state" and thus when it must get involved it has a responsibility to ensure that it's not giving children to just any person, but rather a fit parent. On the other hand, when someone gives birth (certainly a constitutionally protected fundamental right), the state is not directly involved. While we have been willing to "invade the home" in cases of abuse or neglect and take children away from biological parents involuntarily, it is with GREAT care and only in the most serious circumstances.
What you're advocating is some sort of Platonic state, where only certain classes of people have the job of raising children. This is utterly contrary to the American ideal of natural rights--that we are endowed with certain inalienable rights as human beings. Certainly one of those rights is the right to reproduce and to raise children. When someone chooses to relinquish that right and give a child up for adoption, the state moves in and has a responsibility to provide some screening, probably beyond just the baseline for abuse and neglect. But otherwise we must be very careful because, like other natural rights (like the right to privacy) more searching inquiries lead us farther and farther away from freedom and closer to tyranny.
2006-12-05 01:34:19 · answer #2 · answered by Perdendosi 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I agree! Even to adopt a pet cat you have to pass tests and have references! But to raise a child, another life who will have impact on the world? It needs to be regulated! I know this would be difficult to achieve, but I think people should be temporarily sterilzed until they have taken a class on parenting and can pass a reasonable exam testing their common sense and ability to take care of another living being. I'm not sure people would be thrilled to adopt a child that had already been emotionally damaged by unfit parents, so I think that situation just needs to be prevented.
2006-12-05 01:34:53 · answer #3 · answered by Julia 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well I tend to somewhat agree with your point. I often wish that there was a pill you would have to take in order to get pregnant, rather than a pill to put off conception. Too many people in the world are having children that they didn't want, or having them for the dollar from welfare. It's pathetic, but true. Unfortunately, there is nothing we can do about it.
2006-12-05 01:29:05 · answer #4 · answered by kari w 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
were you "wodering" or questioning. In an adoption procedure there are a series of criteria that one ought to satisfy/bypass. between the failings they could actual take a seem at is someone's psychological ability/stability and this can come into question in accordance with the position you're contained in the transition procedure.
2016-11-23 17:57:10 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have asked myself that same question. I guess people believe it's their right to have kids. But I feel people should take a test before they have a child and if they don't pass that test get sterilized.
2006-12-05 01:24:16 · answer #6 · answered by Mikira 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋