What are some advantages of adoption?

Question

I writing a paper trying to persuade a person to adopt.

Answer 1

I am adopted from Brazil.  The best part is knowing that  my biologival parents wanted to give me a better life and i am very grateful.  I may noe have become a successful college educated woman, a mother and wife, a daughter and a sister if it was for me being adopted.  Knowing you have two families that love you, knowing my biological parents committed a VERY unselfish act, I am truly blessed.

Answer 2

Well, as  a mom who relinquished a child for adoption, the only advantage I've found so far--from the natural mom point of view--is that going through the trauma of losing my child has made me stronger.

Answer 3

As compared to what? Abortion or having a biological child?

Answer 4

it is very LAME to persuade someone to adopt if you are at all informed about the pain and loss adoption involves.

do some more studying

Answer 5

I'm confused. Advantages to whom? The adoptee? The adopters? The natural parent? Without knowing what you mean this is difficult to answer.

Since you are trying to persuade someone to adopt I will assume you mean the adopters. They get a kid. They might get one seriously messed up kid but that is the only pro I can find without knowing more about this hypothetical adoptive family. They get exactly what they ask for, with all the bells and whistles, a child to call their very own.

Answer 6

First of all you need to highlight the reasons for either side, examples include: Giving a child in need of parents a loving caring home, Giving adoptive parents the joy of raising a child as their own.  The joys of being a parent doesn't mean you actually have to give birth to be a parent, my parents adopted myself and my brother and never had any children of their own "biologically" but will always consinder us their kids.  If the people that you are trying to persuade are unable to have children, the fact that they can adopt a child will make them a "whole" family.  The joy of bringing their child home is the same joy that is felt if they were bringing home a baby that they concieved as it is for when they bring home a baby or child that was adopted, They worked hard to make it happen either way. If they , as was the case of my parents, were unable to give birth to an unhealthy child, they could adopt, In the case of a friend of mine, they had a baby but lost it and were told they would not be able to be able to give birth to a healthy baby and they would never be able to have a full term delivery, so they have decided to adopt and should, if all goes well, have the children by christmas.  There are alot of babies and children that need a home with a loving family that can not only provide them with material item's but also with all the love that a family can provide Hope I helped.

Answer 7

Adoption means many things to many different people - and your responses to this question will reflect that.

For us, the advantages were wonderful:

A loving family; a wonderful set of bio grandparents who have added tremendously to our lives; a safe home for our child; but the thing that makes everything worth while is when my 5 yr old looks at me and says "Mommy, you are the sweetest Mommy in the whole world - I love you!"  That is the biggest advantage to me personally!

Answer 8

You might have better luck writing a paper persuading people not to adopt.

As far as I see it, there are many advantages to the adopters. Many of them can't have kids, so through adoption they get one. Some may say no pain in giving birth- your very own baby just shows up! (For a very large sum, I must say.)

For the first parents, the only benefit I can see is that they can think their child is having a better life than they could have provided. They also can get on with there life without having the burden of a baby to provide for and take care of.

For the adoptee- I see no benefit what so ever, unless the original parents were abusive. In many cases, the adoptee gets taken away from their mother at a very young age. She grows up not knowing where she came from, or who she looks like. She doesn't have a real birth certificate- and may not ever be able to get it.

Answer 9

Well I got a pony!  some people think money and material things mean a child will have a 'better life'

I don't believe this to be true btw

The only advantage of adoption I can see is to a child who is endangered by remaining with their family.  But I don't for one second believe that ALL adoptees are adopted for this reason.

Answer 10

No pregnancy to go through.

No labor pains.

Child may come already potty-trained.

But most of all,   a child that would otherwise grow up unloved,  abandoned,  underfed,  or worse,  never get the chance to grow up,   will  have a loving and trusted environment to develop into a future President of the United States.    (It could happen!)

Answer 11

Adopting a child from foster care gives that child a family.  Many foster kids never get out of 'the system" and, having been ill-prepared, find adult life very difficult.  They deserve a chance at a stable environment.  They didn't do anything to "deserve" to lose their family life, yet our society often sets them up to fail.  

I can't defend much about infant adoption, particularly sealed records infant adoption.  There are times when it's really in the best interest of the child to not be raised by its first parents, but infant adoption is currently so "customer" (a'parent)-driven, and demand has so far oustripped "supply," that infant adoptions sometimes involve coercion and corruption.  If so much money didn't change hands, infant adoption might clean up its act.

Answer 12

I agree with the comments above.  This depends on the perspective.  If you are talking about an infant, maybe they are going to a better home, and maybe not.  If you are talking about a child in foster care, then they will have a permanent family.  Again, hopefully, they are going to a better home.  If you want the advantages from the adoptive parent's point of view, yes, a woman does not have to go through pregnancy or child birth.  I am waiting to adopt children through the foster care system.  My husband and I can not have biological childrens, so our advantage is huge.  We can adopt and still have children to love, guide and nuture.