REFLECTION JOURNAL 4 - INTERNATIONAL ADOPTION

   Adoption is a preferred way of having children for the people who cannot have one due to biological problems or want to take care of a child who is destitute.

   The reasons for why I want to write about this topic is mainly because the children are the most important component of a society and should never be abused no matter what the reason is! We should never violate their rights and be sensitive to any case which are likely to harm them.

   Adopting a child is regarded as a heartily act by many people, but the case is not the same in some adoptions. Countries such as China, Russia, Guatemala and Vietnamese, which are overpopulated or underdeveloped, were once the large source of foreign adoptions. However, these countries decided to put an end to their inter-country adoption agreements, because unignorable number of children had been abused or tyrannized by their adoptive parents. The people in the United States, Spain, France and Canada, receiving the most children, are looking for different countries and new ways to have kids , because children-giving countries made things really difficult for people who want to adopt children. They have brought new criteria to be met by adoptive parents such as being married more than 2 years, heterosexual, not divorced, under 50, not overweight and earning more than $80,000 a year.

   There are 3 main reasons for why the countries are reluctant to give their children up for adoption:  Firstly, they fear that these children will suffer without the knowledge of their indigenous culture, but some say that this reason is a pretense for falling birthrates, higher standards of living, higher infertility, and the increasing national honour in the countries which give up their children to be adopted. It sounds to be a rational excuse, because if a family has no reason to give away their children, why would they do that ? Secondly, it is discovered in the reports that 14 Russian children had been murdered by their adopter since the 1990s. After learning it, Russian government put a passing end to international adoptions. Maybe, it would not attract that much attention if these kids were killed within the country by Russian parents; however governments have defensive attitudes towards foreign countries.  As a result, we can say that international adoption is a relatively  better way of finding out the adoption-related problems compared to the domestic adoptions. The last reason for decreasing number of international adoptions is the baby-selling and corruptions in adopting a child. These illegal actions took place in Vietnamese. People who wanted to make use of the increasing interest in a dopting a child from Vietnamese forced poor parents to sell their children by suggesting that they would not be able to provide the necessary resources for the children. Within the hands of malicious humans ,such a blessed act like adopting a child has been misused. The government took precautions , and ended child- adoption agreement with the United States.

All in all, giving a child to someone else is an issue to be handled with an utmost care whether it is within or outside the country borders. Evil-minded people should be kept off from the circle of such a blameless act.