Korean adoption?

Question

South Korea has a problem with adoption. They will not adopt their own, because it is not the same blood line. Orphans are treated different here. And when they are older and look for their parent the biological parent pressures them to stay in Korea and take care of them. Do yu think the Korean's should adopt their own children?

Answer 1

We adopted from Taiwan.  There are very similar social dynamics.  It is slowly changing, though.  More families are accepting unwed pregnancies, and there is some domestic adoption.  Korea actually has the goal to eliminate international adoption and totally find domestic homes for their orphans.  I think that's great.  As far as the biological parents expecting support from their children when they are reunited, there are just totally different cultural values when it comes to family structure.  It is hard on the child, though.

Answer 2

Wow, that's so weird. You'd think they'd be more open than that.

Answer 3

1.  They are NOT orphans.  They are abandoned children.  



The parents should be responsible for the children they create.

Korea has a problem and it is not "adoption".  It is teaching it's citizens to be responsible.

If you are old enough to have s*x your are old enough to be responsible for your actions.

The Korean government and it's people need to take care of their own rather than export their children to the West to be raised.

The main problem is the Korean government refusal to force Korean males to support their children.

There is no such thing as a single mother. Korean males also abandon the children they create during their stays in Vietnam and the Philippine. (FYI, MEN take care of their children.  Males only create and then abandon them.)

The Korean government should take DNA samples from every male in the country including infants and children and match their DNA to the abandoned children.

The Korean government makes it too easy to abandon a child.  It is not just infants that are abandoned.  Children of all ages are abandoned in Korea.  Most parents use the lame excuse of financial difficulties.

The "Adoption" facilities also encourage "economically weak" parents or unmarried women to put up their kid for adoption.

These agencies are in the business of making money. They receive a fee for each kid that is adopted/placed.

Where are the grandparents (maternal & paternal)?

Where are the other relatives of these abandoned children?

Why are they NOT supporting/raising their Blood relatives?

If the Korean government made it tougher to abandon these children in the first place and made their males responsible, there would not be a problem with birth parents coming back and pressuring the kids to support them after they have been raised by someone else.

Expecting someone to support you whom you abandoned is so outrageously arrogant.  

Is there anyone more selfish than a Korean that abandons their kid and then turns around and expects this kid to support them?

A child should be raised by both parents (even if they do not reside in the same place).  If for any reasons a parent/parents cannot raise their own child then a relative should step up.  If a relative is unavailable then the children should be placed in foster care or "orphanage".  

Korea should NOT be exporting it's children.   Adoption is a personal matter and you cannot force or encourage another person to adopt a child.

There would not be a problem with "blood line", if each child was DNA connected to the male that fathered it.  These children should be placed on the family registry of their biological father regardless of the male's current martial/financial status.

Answer 4

Really sad. China is the same way.

Answer 5

yep, my own cousin was adopted from Korea, and a lot of his friends too. Some of his friends have gone back to Korea, and the biological parents tend to try to talk them into staying.

My cousin says he never ever wants to go to Korea though, nor does he ever want to meet his biological parents.. for those reasons.