What are the pros of adoption?

SJM

The best benefit of adoption is that infertile couples can hide their infertility and pretend they had children.

I'm gunna start bawling over the pools and ponies thing. My natural mother has an olympic sized swimming pool in her backyard, and my natural dad has miniature horses. I was deprived of BOTH growing up, and I asked my adoptive dad for ponies all the time. We lived on a farm, and I was still deprived of ponies. All I got was Kool-Aid. I'm sobbing now. ; )

BOTZ

I have never adopted, so I'm not sure.

I can tell you the pros of BEING adopted:

Better looking that my a-parents,
Have a built-in excuse for everything,
When a-parents get a little 'psycho' and people look at me sideways I can say, "No worries. I'm adopted!"
Have a back-up set of parents waiting for me to 'come home' (which I did),
Much easier to fill out forms at the doctors office -- one UNKNOWN/ADOPTED takes care of everything,
Pools, ponies and lots and lots of kool-aid.

Yay, adoption!

myst1998

Um.... NOTHING. There really are no pros unless you are all for making people suffer (which seems to be an epidemic these days)

Not Adopted

If you own an adoption agency you can make big money.

Mei-Ling

The adoptive parents get a child...

At the expense of the child's other parents.

kateiskate

For the my adoptive parents...well me, because I'm awesome.

For me:
A family that loves me although they are sometimes somewhat clueless.

But I would have had that in Korea too....

The pros of my adoption are shadowed by my loss.

âš¡Energyâš¡

The only benefits of adoption are to provide relief to one's irrational fears. The primary fear is that of being a bad parent. But with an adopted child one can blame genetics and even the child itself, for refusing to trust and fit in, for any problems you might have, any issues, any behavior, any disloyalty, any anger, sadness, etc.

And if you can't handle your adopted kid it's really not your kid anyway so there's an easy out, just kick it out when it's 18, not just the house but out of your life. You don't need that kind of crap right, you gave that brat a home and he should be grateful (i.e. blindly obedient)!

BTW, I can't believe any adult would be so disconnected from reality they would think that child birth is "too icky" and would prefer adoption in order to avoid it. That would be on a Sylvia Plath level of self-hatred.

Yarr

You already know the child is healthy (unless you are purposefully agreeing to adopt a sick child). You don't have to pay medical costs for the pregnancy and birth. You can pick which gender you want as well as other attributes. You can choose to adopt an older child and avoid the sleepless nights and diaper days (I've heard the younger the child the more the demand--so generally older children are easier to adopt).

And (if you're a woman) you don't have to go through nine months of hell.

MATMAN

Pro for me and my wife was it provided us the oppertunity to be parents. We were unable to do it naturally.
For our son it gave him a much better life then all of the many different alternatives where he could of ended up.

Kazi

Becoming a family.

Particularly for children in orphanages and foster care.

AR3

Well my step brother is adopted and he's 8, he's lovely and u wouldn't know! Biological child or adopted child, they're loved and they're human!

sexi momma

you are giving a baby a good home (hopefully)

smilinattheblues

There are a number of benefits to adoption.
Infertility, adding to your familly, and the best is the good feeling you get by opening up your heart and home to a waiting child.
"For every child there is a home and for every home there is a child"

Piltdown Man

You don't have to PUSH!

gungirl

because a lot of people who adopt cannot have biological children so the best part of adoption is that they get to have a baby/child to raise and love.

lish

you give a child a chance of a good life, making sure they dont grow up being passed around between foster families and have some degree of family security. it also gives people who cant have children the chance to love and care for a child. that said, the benefits should be about the needs of the child, not the adoptive parents. its better than abortion anyhow.

to all those thumbs down people, im giving her the pros. obviously there are negative aspects but there are positive aspects too depending on the adoptive parents and the child involved. Im adopted and know the negative side but there are positive things too

#2 to arrive August 14, 2009

You can give a child a life that they would never had the chance to have.

You don't have morning sickness.

No stretch marks.

Sofa King

8 out of 10 adopted children aren't crack babies.

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