Adoption Careers?? HELP!?
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Adoption Careers?? HELP!?
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I am a freshman in high school, and want to go into a career that matches adoptees with great adoptive parents. Preferably international, but im also great with domestic. I dont even know of all the job/careers that there are. (plz dont tell me adoption agencies are bad, and to go to foster care, i dont want to work with foster care, and i will ALWAYS tell the truth to the birth mother, adoptee, and the adoptive parents! I myself was adopted, and know nothing of my other mother, and it kills me not to know! i want to do everything i can to prevent these 'hidden facts' from being hidden from others!) i am a strong christian, and want to spend my life uniting children all over the world with there forever families! im a little obsessed with china, i have read numerous books about the history and the more modern conditions there, and have read book after book about adoption from china, and i am hopefully, God willing going to adopt a chinese child myself some day. I have even started learning mandarin chinese. i just want to know some of the careers in the field of adoption, whether here in the states or else where, helping orphans, adoptees, birth mothers, and/or adoptive parents! plz help! thank you!
Ok, lots of people have comented, thanks! but i think that i need to explain myself a little better. I know its not ideal, but there are thousands of homeless orphans in the world as we speak! talking about it isnt going to help, and you are crazy if you think that i wouldnt try and help a birthmother keep her child! Pip, you are right i dont know what its like to be a birth mother, but i know what its like to be adopted! and being adopted into a good loving family, instead of being delt out like a library book in foster care, is a much better option if you ask me!
For all who disagree, (and agree both) plz read SILENT TEARS, by Kay Bratt!
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Pip
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I am a mother not a mother not a birth mother and am tired of being reduced to a bodily function just because it's the pc term.
If you really wanted to help mothers and babies you would want to work with the mother so she would keep her baby. You haven't got a clue what it is like to be a mother who has surrendered so how the heck can you constuctively help one. When you really understand what it is like and understand the pain of not raising your own child then you willl understand how to help other mothers. The fact that you are an adoptee and have been honest how you feel about not knowing your mother and closed adoptions should really be enough to put you off adoption. |
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sk8ermom
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The best thing to do is start volunteering. Like many career goals, you need to "know someone". There are a lot of matching services that are started with volunteers. There isn't much money in it at all but maybe you could be the person to visit the orphanages and gather the info when they are coming available for adoption. You could work on the international side, say in China, helping arrange legal work, transportation, sight seeing, accomidations, and translation for traveling parents. |
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grapesgum
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The only way to help "birth" mothers (BTW - this is a derogatory term invented by the adoption industry) is to help them to keep their precious babies.
It makes me very sad that you think that separating children from their natural mothers/fathers is an honorable career goal. I would rather be a street sweeper than steal children from their real parents. Even sadder is that you are an adoptee and prefer to destroy natural families rather than strive to preserve them. |
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Molly
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probably your major in college would be social worker. You high school guidance counselor should be able to guide you towards a school that has a good program for that. |
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De
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There are lots of different careers that can lead you down the path to work in adoptions. Social Worker is the most common and you have to get a license to do it. The agency I work with when I adopted my child a two people in particular that I work with. one was a social worker and the other had a degree in education. |
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Marnie B
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It sounds like you'd like to work in an agency dealing with open adoptions, & being adopted yourself you'll probably have great advice for both birth & adoptive parents. You could be a social worker or an adoption coordinator. Ignore the mean responses on here, & good luck to you. |
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