It's about adoption, i don't understand it. :(?

Gershom

The adoptees records in the United states are always sealed, in open and closed adoptions.

44 states seal the adoptees birth certificate from him/her permanently unless a petition to open the files is granted by a judge or court order which is about as good of a chance as finding a needle in a hay stack.

International adoption is where the adoptee is adopted from another country outside of the United States. Korea is known as the baby exporting capital of the world. Unfortunately many children are stolen or manipulated from the hands of their mothers to fullfill the demand of couples in the United States willing to pay thousands of dollars for a newborn, infant , or international baby/small child. Vietnam ( like the country the "friend" of the answerer above me adopted from ) has had the agreement between the US and Vietnam terminated due to allegations of massive child trafficking and baby stealing.

Local adoption is adoption here in the United States, which can either be private, domestic or foster care adoption. Private is when its done between an adoptive family, lawyer and the surrendering parents. Domestic is done through one of the 3000 adoption agencies in the United States. Foster care adoption is adopting one of the hundreds of thousands of children who need a permanent safe home to live in. However foster youth and children are often overlooked for the newborn infants ( especially white ones ) or international adoptees.

Unfortunately people have the ignorant idea that babies will be more "theirs" and moldable than the foster youth. It is my belief that foster youth need homes above all others. They should have priority.

Open adoptions aren't legally enforceable in the United States. They are the adoption industries new tactic to trick expecting poverty stricken parents into surrendering their children. Research (nevermind common sense ) shows that parents want to know what happens to their children, they want to know they're okay after the finalization of an adoption, so the industry developed a scam called Open Adoptions...which the surrendering parent can choose the potential adoptive parents, they can maybe even know them, and get letters and pictures or have ongoing contact, the level of openess is at the discretion of the adopters. HOWEVER promises can be made pre-adoption, but once its finalized the adopters can close it at their discretion at anytime after the adoption.

Take that to your teacher and PM me anytime for more answers or questions. Its important to get accurate information into the lessons of your class.

Pamela B

Local adoption the child is from the US. International adoption the child comes from another country.
Open adoption the birth parent knows and sometimes picks the adoptive parents. Closed adoption the birth parents and the adoptive parents do not know who the other is. The child's birth records are permanently sealed.

sizesmith

International is from other countries. Local adoption is just that, local. Domestic adoption is within the country that the adopting and 1st parents live in.

Even though the records are closed in most states in the USA, some parents (the adoptive and biological togethe) successfully have "open" adoptions. It's often not legally enforceable, because what most people refer to as "open" actually refers to visitation. Visitation is not, and in most cases, would not be enforceable through the law.

In open adoption, there are many variations. For some, it means that there are merely pictures sent to the 1st parents once or twice a year. For us, we have the door open to our son's first mom. Even though it's hard on her to visit, he still has siblings, grandparents, and other family members (his dad came today), come see him. It's given us the opportunity to know his family history, and we've taken extra steps together to document which grandparents had what color hair, their hobbies, and other personal information. By us getting to know them, we'll always be able to say, "you get your chin from your 1st dad, and your ability to frown totally upside down from your momma-T."

On the down-side of open adoption, there are times that for various reasons, it doesn't work out. Many people are fraudulent in telling 1st parents that they'd be glad to accept the open adoption, and when 1st parents try to get in contact, they've moved, and left no forwarding address. It's heartbreaking, and in the long run, many of these kids reunite with 1st families, and end up mad at adoptive parents. There are many variations of who doesn't do what, and it's a shame that all the parents involved don't work to what's best for the child. Many will say that only the natural parents are best for kids, but I disagree. Adoptive kids can have successful lives, depending on who adopts them, for what reasons, and only in the cases where honesty, love, and what's best for them is put as #1, not the adoptive parent's needs.

simii

Local adoption the child is from the US. International adoption the child comes from another country.

Daisymay

Obviously everyone answered international/local adoption. International adoption is extremely expensive and you have to have meet certain criteria based on certain countries.

If you do local adoption you can be chosen by a parent. If you do foster care they place a child with you and if that child comes open for adoption you have the choice to adopt that child and the state (I am a foster mom in Wa state) pays for the adoption costs. In WA they will continue to pay for child's counseling and also keep up on medical assistance. Also with foster to adopt they most the time will do an open adoption, but that means that every year you send the birth mom pictures and a letter informing her of the child's progress.

Pros to International is that you right off the bat get a legally free and adoptable child where as foster care you never know.
International costs a lot more, but you also have closed adoption most the time, so the child won't get to find their parents easily if at all any.
I was mostly adding on to others comments with info I didn't see anyone else write about.

phmom

Internation adoption would be adopting a child from another country, whereas local adoption would be adopting one from the same country. Closed adoption is when the birth records are sealed, so the identity of the birth parents isn't known to the child or adoptive parents. Open adoption is opposite. The birth and adoptive parents share information.

My best friend adopted internationally, and there was a lot of red tape involved. She had to make 2 trips to Vietnam and spend 3 ro 4 weeks there on the 2nd one. However, because she and her husband didn't fit the Barbie and Ken picture of a family, (She's not a thin blonde, and he's not a GQ professional making 6 figures) birth parents in the U.S. wouldn't pick them. (disadvantage of open - people judge you by your looks and money not by the love you have to give, how patient you are, and how intelligent you are) The wait for an infant in the U.S. is very long, so going to agencies with open adoption policies was their best shot. They adopted a blind girl who is severly developmentally delayed, thus getting her medical care she could not have had in her country as well as a loving home. (advantage of open is that you can a birth parent can have more control over the environment their child goes to and sometimes, involvement in the child's life.)

My husband is adopted (closed). The only parents he knows are his adoptive parents, but that also means he doesn't have medical history information. Supposedly his parents had a bit of information that they gave to him, but I was there, and they didn't. Thus, he has no way to get that info unless he tracks down his birth parents. I don't see any other disadvantage to him not knowing. The parents who raised and loved him all those years are his mother and father, and if he were to find his birth parents, he may not like what he finds.

You can Google these terms and find more info!

Angela W

i was adopted out at birth and it was closed adoption, so there was no information of my birth mum @ dad.
open adoption is were the birth mum can see and get photo of her child.and get in touch with the new parent,which i wouldn't wont for the child.
plus once the child is of age they can try to find there birth parent later on in life.

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