Ugly Side of Adoption

    Adoption is a process whereby a person assumes the parenting for another who is not kin and, in so doing, permanently transfers all rights and responsibilities from the original parent or parents. There are two forms of adoption. The first option is open adoption: “Open adoption allows identifying information to be communicated between adoptive and biological parents and, perhaps, interaction between kin and the adopted person ” (Webster).  The second form of adoption is closed adoption: “The practice of closed adoption the norm for most of modern history, seals all identifying information, maintaining it as secret and barring disclosure of the adoptive parents', biological kins', and adoptees' identities” (Webster). But not all adoptions go smoothely like shown in movies and televisions.

Desiree Smolin and David Kruchkow state in their article, Why the Bad Stories Must be Told: “Going smoothly may be different from being ethical. Beware new adoptive parents telling you that adoptions are successful. We read many such posts from people, soon after they'd adopted. Little did we know then that we had adopted children who came to be available for adoption under very questionable circumstances, to say the least. Little did we know that the people working on our adoptions were involved with such matters as switching children's identities, then sending them to the U.S. for adoption with falsified documents. These people would later become the subject of national criminal investigations and prosecutions. We're sure none of the parents of children from Cambodia or India knew what has recently been revealed about the greed, corruption, unethical activity, baby buying and child trafficking for international adoption that took place in these countries. Does anyone really think that similar practices are not ongoing elsewhere?”

Many kids are neglected before they even reach their adoptive home. They are sometimes missed treated, raped, or not properly fed. And even if some children are not mistreated through the adoptive agencies, they might be abused within the homes of their adoptive parents. The reality is that some people do not care for the children, which is sad but also very true. Child abuse occurs anywhere and everywhere and there is very few awareness of this.


work cited:
Smolin, Desiree, and David Kruchkow. "Why the Bad Stories Must Be Told :: The Adoption Agency Checklist." Introduction. Web. 07 Mar. 2011. <http://www.adoptionagencychecklist.com/page794.html>.