How many people are waiting for an adopted child?

Question

Approx. how many couples/families/people are waiting to recieve a child through adoption? I have to write a paper on abortion and I would like to make the point that _______ amount of families would be glad to adopt a child that would otherwise be aborted

Answer 1

The number of children waiting to be adopted far exceeds the number of people waiting to adopt.

However they are not all 'to the specification' demanded by adopters (i.e. infants)

Are you implying that an expectant mother should forfeit her right to choose abortion in order to fulfill the needs of adopters who choose not to adopt readily adoptable children?  wow, how horrid

Answer 2

There are millions of familys just in the United States alone waiting to adopt a child. Thousands of familys get so scared that they will never get chosen by a birth mother that they adopt from other countrys.

My Aunt and uncle are good people and make good money and have always had a nice home, however they could not have children....At the age of 22 they signed up for adoption with an agency expecting it would be at leaset 2 years before they recived a child, wrong....The waited on the waiting familys list for 18 years, at the age of 40 they recived a child...My new cousin just turned 5 years old last month.

Its really sad the adoption world, To many Wanted Children get disgarded by birth mothers, Then thier are mothers all over this country that cannot bare children of there own.

Best of luck on your paper!

Answer 3

From my experience as an adoptive parent and in the pro-life movement, I can tell you that there are a large number of potential parents out there, just waiting to adopt.  Unfortunately, I cannot give you statistics.  That is one that is not normally tallied.

I do know from experience that the biggest impediment for parents is not the culture of the child.  It is the big sea of red tape that they have to deal with during the process.  In addition, the costs can be almost prohibitive.

Finally, it is hard to get past the politicization if the adoption system.  By this I mean that roadblocks have been put up to impeded inter-cultural adoptions (mostly white parents and children of a different culture), the parents social views.  Christians have a harder time in the process due to their beliefs which, for the most part, clash with the current social "cause de jour."

I have yet to meet a potential adoptive parent who cares about what culture or color their child is.  While I wouldn't doubt that there MAY BE some who feel this way, it is my belief, based on observation, that the vast majority who are seeking to adopt couldn't care less about such things

My 3 children are all different culture/backgrounds & none of it entered into our decisions to adopt.

On a final note, abortion is often used nowadays as birth control.  Also, although this is hardly reported in public, there are more deaths due to "safe & legal" abortion than there ever were in the pre-Roe v Wade days.

Dr. Bernard Nathanson is a longtime pro-life activist who used to be pro-abortion (He is a founder of NAARAL), and was one of the people who shaped the arguments that we hear a lot form pro-abortion people today.  He states that the figures that are often cited to support "safe & legal" are not real.  They were made up.

Answer 4

Don't forget to add that criminalizing abortion does not make it go away.

I have a relative who died of an illegal abortion during the 30's.  I hope women are never put into that position again, I wish that people would stop linking adoption and abortion.

Women first choose to carry a pregnancy and then after birth choose to parent or not.

Adoption is not the panacea you see to think it is.  Many of the women who considered abortion parent.

Answer 5

There are hundreds of thousands of orphans in the United States whom those families DON'T WANT because they're either a racial minority or they have an incurable disease. It's not pregnant women's job to pop out perfect kids for discriminatory would-be parents. Anyone who tells you a child put up for adoption is headed for anything but the most abusive foster care system in the world is lying.

Secondly, abortion has nothing to do with not wanting a child, it has to do with not having it in the first place.

Third, an embryo is not a child. This is factually wrong and offensive to those of us who have children.

Answer 6

were waiting! it takes forever!!!

Answer 7

More couples/families/people than will ever get a child.  This is in North America.

Each country is different.  There's even a difference between Canadians and those in the United States.  And in the latter, you'd have to tally up the amount in each state.  

Plainly put, we don't really know.  Not much help, I know, but that's how it is.  Sorry!

Answer 8

Not me

Answer 9

The number of children waiting to be adopted exceeds the number of people waiting to adopt them.

If you understand that the number of children waiting to be adopted is larger than the amount of people wanting to adopt, then how are you going to prove your assertion about abortion?  You're claiming that if people didn't abort, then there would be children for them to adopt.  There are already plenty enough children waiting to be adopted.