Category: Adoption

There are many factors to why this is happening and it was interesting to uncover why there is a difference of thousands of children not being adopted compared to the early 2000s. I learned that the main reasons have to do with modern acceptance and not having negative stigma around what women choose to do…

It seems to be that in so many other ways we say colour doesn’t matter anymore, so why should it matter in bringing up a child? It’s not as though white parents can’t tell children about their background and culture, and make them aware of that. There are two ways of looking at the debate…

There are 20,000 adoptions from Russia yearly and over 1.6 million from the world a year, coming from an adoptive child myself from Russia, I Believe strongly in adoption and believe that it is hard to adopt children in this day and age. It is a very controversial topic in the world today. ‘A total…

In recent years, adopting a child is becoming a widespread situation. However, sometimes couples do not adopt kids from their own country; they adopt kids from other countries. This situation can be confusing for older children since everything changes for them such as culture, society, social environment, and the most important one; language. Children are…

Adoption is not just the call to have a seamless glowing family. Rather, it is a call to share and give love, kindness, and patience&! The adoption triangle comprises of the kids who are adopted, birth mothers/fathers, and the adoptive parents. Regardless of whether these three groups never get together, their lives are bound to…

In my research I discovered that in Fairfax County Virginia, the Probate Court operates independently and handles the following: wills for safekeeping, probates wills, grants administration for decedents estates (testate and intestate) and testamentary trusts, and qualifies guardians and/or conservators over incapacitated adults and guardians over the person and property of minors. Appointments to probate…

Adoption means the act or method of adopting a child adoption person implies the legal act or idea of making the child of another person member of your family, such that he or she is one of your own children. Family members want their children to get the best, to support their development and growth.…

As the existing literature has shown, there are many interrelated factors that contribute to sexual victimization in youth post-foster care. Firstly, it is important to reflect on how adverse childhood experiences set forth a trajectory of risk for sexual victimization in foster care youth. Studies have found that the existence of child abuse, both sexual…

An Experiment in Zero Parenting by Eliot Marshall ia an article that discusses an experiment done by the Bucharest Early Intervention Project (BEIP) in Romania. In the 1960s the dictator felt Romanias population needed to be boosted, so he started taxing women for having less than five children with no consideration about their financial and…

One of the purposes of the U.S. child welfare system is to reunify children with their parents or to offer children permanency, or long-term, living arrangements rather through guardianship or adoption. In 2016 alone, over 100,000 children were removed from their homes and placed into foster care (Number of Children, 2017). As a whole, there…