Can adoption be made a little easier?

Question

If someone wants to make abortion a less viable option, why not reduce some of the red tape to adopt? People cry about abortion being such an evil thing but, an uglier thing is seeing all the paperwork you need to fight through. I understand that is a common sense approach and if you get politics involved, common sense has no chance to happen.

Answer 1

Birthparents have a minimal amount of paperwork to complete when placing a child for adoption.  Adoptive parents an enormous amount.  

Regardless, there are still more potential adoptive parents than there are newborns to adopt.  Reducing the amount of paperwork for the adoptive parents to complete has no direct effect on whether or not a woman decides to abort her baby or place it for adoption.

Adoption is not easy and it shouldn't be.  I am glad the state checked us out thoroughly before we were approved to adopt.  Doing so makes sure that children are placed in safe homes within safe neighborhoods and with parents who can support them financially and provide for them emotionally.

Answer 2

Actually it used to be hard to find adoptive parents for children. There were more children available for adoption than there were parents to adopt them. Charles Loring of the Children's Aid Society of NYC took train loads of these children across the US making stops at each little town inbetween. The children were then exhibited to people in the hopes that they would be adopted! Even then, only older more useful children were considered adoptable (because they could work!) Babies often went to orphanages and often died there.

What changed was contraception and a change in attitude about unwed motherhood. As single moms became increasingly more acceptable, less and less children were placed for adoption.  Also, there is more infertility due to waiting to being a family at an older age.Now demand far out paces supply.

I do agree with you that more people might adopt special needs children or internationally if the homestudy process was not so scary. Not all of course, but many home studies are invasive and intimidating. This really puts people off.

Answer 3

Boy, is that the truth!  I can understand things like criminal checks and background research.  We certainly don't want to let s*x offenders adopt children!    But some of the other things they make you go through are just over the top.  It would be nice, too, if the cost of adoption could be reduced.

Answer 4

they have whats called open adoptions but l could never at all believe this.

Answer 5

Regardless of the paperwork, there are still more hopeful adoptive parents then there are women wanting to place newborns...they are perfectly willing to do what they need to adopt.

Also, little of the hassle and paperworkis experienced by the birthparents, so it would do nothing to decrease abortion because the red tape isn't part of their decision.

Answer 6

yes if you take out the middle man (Government)

lets say I'm having a baby and you want one way not just have both at hospital and you sign on as mother right then and your husband bomb done way should the government get involved with  a child that is mine?? Its all about money Just because you have lots a money doesn't mean you can mother or father a child any better.

                          ITS THE GOVERNMENT

Answer 7

It could be made a little easy-er , but they want to make sure that the child is not put back into the same situation that the child came from .