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Question, do you guys think adoption is wrong?



    




PhilM
In general, yes.

Maybe it would be better to say that I think adoption is bad? Or tragic?

I do acknowledge that, in this imperfect world, it may sometimes be necessary. But it always involves a loss, a separation of child from its mother. If that separation is necessary, then whatever makes it necessary is obviously tragic for the child. If the separation isn't necessary, then the separation itself is tragic.

It might be unavoidable at times, but it's never good, in and of itself.


concerned
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Adoption, or relinquishment?

Necessary adoption, or unnecessary adoption?

Necessary relinquishment, or unnecessary relinquishment?

Your question is way too broad.

My answer is: it depends on the situation.


Laurel J
If adoption were really about the best interests of the child--if it were really about "saving a life"--I'd support it one hundred per cent. But it is about the wants of the adoptive parents. Why does money change hands when new members are added to families? Why do some people think they have a right to be in the delivery room when someone else's baby is born? Why aren't more kids being adopted out of foster care and into the stable family environments they so desperately need? Why are the fees to adopt non-white infants lower than for white infants?

Adoption gave me a beloved family and made me who I am today. But it is in serious need of reform.


ELLE T
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Adopting older children or children who have been taken into the care system due to abuse or neglect can only be right, surely. Better these children be adopted than languish in children's homes or foster care thinking that no one loves them.

As for the American system of adoption of newborns, that is plain wrong. Too many people making money out of vulnerable people. If mothers really can't cope after being offered plenty of help (as happens in the UK and Australia) then the baby should be taken into the system via non profit making government agencies.


Presley's Mommy
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Adoption is "wonderful" for the adoptive parents... For the adoptee it is not always candy and rainbows... If a child can stay with its natural mother it should... The child that mother carrys is the closest thing she will ever have... The child knows the beats of her heart, the sound of her blood flowing, and was rocked to sleep and kept warm by her body for 40 weeks... That mother deserves more credit then she usually gets.


amyburt40
I think the way adoption is practiced now and in the past is wrong. It treats those living adoption like they are incompetent.


opedial
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If children need a home then no its not wrong. If parents make a choice for adoption it is not wrong. It is hard for birth/bio/first parents, but inevitably they make a choice for what is best for the child and/or their life.

If children are being stolen to meet the needs of people desiring the "healthy white infant" then that is wrong. (obviously)


♥I Luv My BayBays(2 weeks 2 go)
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no not at all i thinks its a great thing for parents who cant take care of there children and a great oppertunity for people that cant have babys that want a family!


Still Me
How could a mother making a life long, responsible and loving plan for her child be wrong???


whatever!
no adoption isn't wrong. what is wrong is people sterotyping birth motheres as bad evil people, adoptive parents as greedy evil people, that adoptees who have emotional issues regarding their adoption are weird. That is what is wrong.


uhdeplatt
Definitely not! My husband and I have three children who joined our family through adoption and I can't imagine not having them in my life! They are my children and I am their mother. Period.


NITTY13
No i do not think it is wrong. Me and my husband are doing the adoption thing right now.


DarthFangNutts
My wife and I are in the process of adopting a little girl and we don't feel "honorable" or "humanitarian" about adopting her. We are not adopting to "save" a child, but because we want another child to love. We already have two beautiful biological children, but we feel we can love another child and we want a girl, so adopting is a more "guaranteed" idea for us.

In a perfect world, everyone that gets pregnant would be able to raise and love their child, but we are far far from Utopia. Therefore, in our real world, there are children with no parents. I think in our real world, it's better and much harder for a birth mother to give up their child for a better life, than to try to keep and raise the child in a broken home.

If adoption is wrong, then what do we do with all the children that we have now with no homes?


Beka L
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It's definitely not wrong! So many people abandon their babies or get them taken away and they need homes to. I think it's wonderful and I really hope you'll look into it!


sjcp138
Not at all. I think it's very honorable. My wife if adopted. It all depends on your family if you should. Each person is different.


Peaness
Adoption itself is not wrong. It is the processes that seem to embrace manipulation, greed, selfishness and the selling of 'goods' (oops, I mean a child) that is wrong.

The fact that there are children, in need of a good permanent home & upbringing are being denied a decent future, simply because they are too old says something about some of the people that 'want' to adopt. It is not to say that they are 'bad' people & that they should not help any child but those that adopt with a specific criteria in mind are adopting to fill their own void, for self...not for the child. Is that to state that they won't grow to love that child, of course not but is possible.

There were times I hated my family & wondered why out of all the families I got stuck with mine...but I think that's life in general & have come to appreciate the 'better' life.


Nickers
As an adoptive parent, I absolutely believe adoption is a wonderful thing.

Because brave young women chose to endure pregnancies and give their unborn babies life, I have children to love for life. What a gift!

What could be wrong with something so selfless?

Here's a link to an online item that might encourage you. Look under SOURCES.

(The words are copyrighted, but you are welcome to forward the http link to others, if you wish.)


Rae
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No, I don't think it's wrong. I think it's a great thing for people to make more room in their families for children who don't have their own.


melisa_estlack
Not at all! I thing it is a wonderful alternative for couples who want a child and cant conceive one on there own!
I think a mother who hands over there child knowing it will have a better life, is the most coragous thing ever!


*Loren*
Wrong? I think its wondeful!!! There are so many children out there who need a good family and home. I personally want to adopt an orphan from russia one day!


Jamal P
it is good..bc you are savin someones life and takin care of them!!! ASAP





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