Adoption Lindsey Fleming Specific Goal Statement: To persuade and encourage the class to consider child adoption. I. Introduction A. Are you aware that there are millions of children just in the U.S. that need loving families and a home? B. Locating information about an adoption in your family takes time. As an adoptee I have become increasingly aware how many children are in the system. C. We must understand that adopting a child is hard on both mother and child. But can also make it better for
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Child Adoption Child adoption speech Thesis: Reasons for adopting a child Purpose: To persuade the audience to consider adoption Introduction As a social worker at this child adoption centre‚ I feel that I am the right person to speak to the people who might be potential parents for these loved ones. There is a need to review the dynamics that are involved with child adoption and its importance. The willingness to adopt a child is not enough to determine the ability of a person to become a parent
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Adoption: A Choice Of Love In a world where almost everyone has been touched by‚ or has some association with‚ adoption‚ it is amazing that the topic is still so foreign to so many of us. It is probable that there are more misconceptions about adoption than there are truths. Adoption is not about abandonment; adoption is about love. Only a mother who loves her child more than herself chooses adoption. Adoption has changed over the years and it continues to change everyday. It used to be a topic
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the adoption process would count their blessings every day because of the peace and joy that their new family life offer. If a child’s parents are no longer able to adequately care for them or single motherhood is considered unacceptable‚ as is the case in some countries‚ then plans for adoption are made. Children are also abandoned near an orphanage in order to be adopted. Some parents involuntarily lose their rights because of child abuse or neglect due to alcohol or drug abuse. The child is then
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newborn up for adoption. There is no situation in which an unmarried teenage girl fares best by keeping her child‚ and in no situation in which doing so is in the child’s best interest. Also‚ when neither marriage or the common sense of maturity are agreed upon‚ parenting takes on an entirely different role for the father. Without full commitment and responsibility to either the child or the girl‚ he may find himself being an absent father where the word father is given to mean child support‚ which
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Adoption is a topic that has always been thoroughly debated. Whether it’s because of religion or plain ethics‚ people normally have a strong opinion on the topic no matter if they are for or against it. Adoption has been on the rise in the past 30 years. Specifically‚ international adoption has seen its numbers more than double in recent years. Christian Pryor of A Narrative Inquiry of International Adoption Stories states that “In 1991‚ there were 8‚481 children adopted from other countries
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However‚ there are 16 states that definitely allow joint gay adoptions (when a same-sex couple jointly petition for adoption): Arkansas‚ California‚ Colorado‚ Connecticut‚ D.C.‚ Illinois‚ Indiana‚ Iowa‚ Maine‚ Massachusetts‚ Nevada‚ New Hampshire‚ New Jersey‚ New York‚ Oregon‚ Vermont‚ and Washington. • Other states allow second parent adoption by law. Second parent adoption is when one person adopts the child of his partner. These states include: Arkansas‚ California‚ Colorado‚ Connecticut
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Throughout the United States‚ the difference in opinion in gay adoption has risen as gay marriage has become legal. The positive side to the controversy is that homosexual parents are more into the children’s future because they want to become parents. As children grow up having parents of the same gender they will learn more about themselves. They are able to stand out and be understanding with others they encounter. No matter the parents‚ children should be viewed on their characteristics not on
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millions of children that are in the child welfare system. The Child Welfare League of America (CWLA) confirms that homosexuals are just as appropriate to raise children and have families as any heterosexuals (CWLA‚ 2009). The American Academy of Pediatrics claims that children with homosexual parents have the same opportunities and the same presumptions for health‚ adjustment‚ and development as children who have heterosexual parents (Coparent or second-parent adoption by same-sex parents.‚2002). This
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Many reasons come to mind when talking about adoption. The possibility that couples‚ single heterosexual‚ or gay and lesbian couples could not conceive‚ because of issues with infertility‚ or having a miscarriage. Having to adopt could be the means of completing a family one waited so long have. Some might want to adopt to help those children who live in countries that are less fortunate and need homes and families themselves. Many singles and celebrities have done a good cause when adopting children
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