new adoption agency Angels watch

A new adoption agency sounds great, given the fact of where it is located and the fact that there isn't one where it is going. The only thing I don't agree with is the fact that there is a fee for adopting a child. They're not dogs at a shelter. They're human beings with thoughts and feelings. I do like how they will work with gay and heterosexual couples and single parents so they will be able to adopt though.

New adoption agency gives prospective parents options

There is a new adoption agency opening in New Mexico called Angles Watch. This is because there is no adoption agency south of Belen, now their will be. They will work with mothers and pregnant mothers who want to give up their child for adoption. They will provide home screenings, check references, and offer training for families. They will work with same-sex and heterosexual couples and single parents. The average cost would be around $250 application fee and $1,400home study. Depending on the child, other costs may apply. The agency hopes the support 'open adoptions' where the child can meet their birth mother. Families who adopt through the state can be eligible for money to help pay for medical, education, and clothing expenses until the child is 18.

gay and single couple adoption

In response to the survey, I don't really find it surprising that people are prejudice towards gay couples. There has been a lot of that going on for ages. For the singllle parents though, I feel they just don't want to give them a chance. It's sad. I think anyone who is will to care and rasie a child and knows how to should be able to. No matter what their relationship status. So kudos to the agencies that let gay couples and sinlge parents adopt!

adoption and gay and single couples

There was a recent survey to see how people felt about gay couple and single parent adoption. 87% of people opposed gay and single adoption. Many feel that children should have male and female role models. 76% said that it would break down the traditional family. Many adoption agencies have welcomed gay couples and single parents as prospective parents for years and were surprised at the prejudice. The adoption agencies focus on the child and see if the prospective parents will meet the child's needs. Not the parents relationship status.

Response to "Adoption helps children."

After reading the article "Adoption helps children", I got an understanding on why some people feel that adoption is best. When you take someone out of an abusive of otherwise neglectful home, and then place them with loving guardians to take care of them, of course it's a good thing. The current issue with child welfare is understandable yet unreasonable. True the welfare system may not have been built to provide homes for every child but they could at least make a decent attempt at getting a child into a permanent home. They cannot keep relying on the biological parents to get better with whatever causes them to be unfit. Weather it's drug abuse, alcoholism, a mental illness, or just not knowing how to raise a child. Baby adoptions are the most successful because the baby has time to from bonds with their adoptive parents that is nurturing and loving. As a baby the child might not remember the abuse as well as a teenager might. That doesn't mean that teenagers aren't unfit to be adopted. Many are adopted, it's just that many are traumatized from their past life that they may need more love and nurturing and a little more patience than a baby who was abused. Adoptive children do well because the adoptive parent(s) love them and know how to raise a child. As for the mothers who are against adoption, and feel that the biological parents are the best parents for the child, they're wrong. Studies show that children who were adopted from abusive homes compared with children who weren't and were placed with their biological parents were better off than the children with their real parents. Many adoptions stay intact which is good although some don't. It is true that the younger the child the more the chances are of the adoption being a success. Baby's make bonds with whomever is caring for them while teenagers are more cautious especially when from abusive homes. They're weary of whom they befriend because of fear of being hurt. Adopted children go into loving homes and are better of than in their abusive and /or neglectful biological home.

"Adoption helps children"

In the article "Adoption helps children" by Janet Alberchtsen, on the Opposing Viewpoints database, she states how adoption essentially helps children by taking them out of their abusive or neglectful home and placing them with loving parents. "Yet adoption remains unfashionable in child welfare circles." She says that a lot of children suffer abuse in the child welfare systems "which was built to react to crisis rather than provide long-term homes for children." Problems with the current system are as pointed out that the state usually ends up keeping the child in foster care until he's eighteen, going from foster parents to biological parents in the states hope that the child's real parents have learned how to care for their child. By doing this, the state overshadows the welfare of the child. "It is painfully obvious that biological ties do not guarantee that children will be loved and nurtured." Alberchtsen talks about a book by a Patricia Morgan, Adoption and the Care of Children- The British and American Experience. In her book, Morgan did research on adopted children. "Baby adoptions are the most successful." "Adoptive families seem to accentuate the positive and minimize the negative factors." "A study which compared children who had been adopted from care with those who had been returned from care to their parents found that the "restored" children did bad in every respect compared with the adopted children. Morgan concluded in her research that "adopted children do so well because the [adoptive] parents are so keen to rear a child." Many "relinquishing mothers" view adoption as unjust and a means of dealing with the children of unwed mothers. These mothers claim that the children are always better off with their biological parents. "Breakdown rates for adoption are about 9 percent. However, the younger the child is at placement, the more likely the adoption will succeed." "Adoption needs to be embraced, not as punishment for unfit parents, but as a gift of loving for the child."

Decided ISearch topic

My decided topic for the ISearch will be adoption. After failed research of my original three topics, I decided on adoption because it is a topic of great interest to me. I do think about the adoption process a lot. What it will be like to adopt a child when I grow up and what I would have to go through. Especially if it was a single parent adoption or an adoption over seas.

Adoption is a hot topic. In my beginning research, I found that there were many articles on adoption and many different viewpoints on different subjects related to adoption. The amount of information I found was astounding. Some of the topics covered were weather or not adoption was good or bad, gay couple adoption, and how children should not be bought and sold like dogs. I could also look into celebrity adoptions and what it is like when Americans adopt overseas and when someone outside of America adopts a child from America. I wonder what the ratio is of children adopted from over seas to children adopted from America is? The articles were very interesting and brought up new perspectives on my topic. I feel that by the end of the ISearch process, I will have a whole new perspective on adoption.

The information will be available throughout the ISearch process. There are many websites I can use. Google, Opposing Viewpoints, Marvel, etc. The opinions on this topic are changing constantly so there will be much information to research.

The articles I found are already challenging my thinking. I have knew ideas on what I think is right and wrong in the adoption process. Weather or not adoption is even good for the child. Weather or not gay couples should adopt a child and if single couple adoption is a good idea.

Overall, I feel the topic I have decided on has answered all five criteria questions and will definitely keep me interested for the next five or six months.