International Adoption

International adoption continues to be one of the most controversial aspects of a trade in young lives which is intended to benefit everyone, but which is often surrounded by controversy and argument. The adoption agencies continue to have a shortage of children from within the USA for prospective American parents to adopt, so the people who are so desperate to become parents must look elsewhere. The trends in the international scene keep changing, but the one constant feature is that children to be adopted come from either poverty stricken countries, war torn zones, or countries with oppressive political systems.

The great boon in international adoptions came when the Berlin Wall came tumbling down, and the oppressive communist regime in Eastern Europe was ended. Even though this heralded the start of a new era of freedom and hope for this oppressed region, it also inevitably meant a breakdown in the previous social order. Many orphaned children were without homes, and effectively without hope in the countries they were born in. It became obvious to offer these children for adoption to the American families who were childless.

Russia, which was at the heart of the former Soviet Union, has remained an extremely popular place for American families to source children to adopt. This situation is changing now, following a controversial incident when an American single mother who had adopted a Russian boy sent him back to Russia unaccompanied on an airplane, with a note saying she didn't want to be his parent any more. There were allegations that the boy had threatened to burn down the family home with the family still inside it, but these are unproven.

Also extremely popular in recent years has been adoption from China, as this communist country with a huge population remains extremely poor. Many of the orphans are unable to attain even the most basic care, and they are an obvious choice for adoption by Western families. Recently, this trend has begun to decline as well, with people in disagreement over why. There are those who say that China is beginning to straighten out its problems and that the adoptions are no longer necessary, but there are others who believe in very different reasons.

There are critics of this international adoption who believe that China does not want its children adopting by single parents, and even by same-gender couples. Whatever the reasons really are, it is certain that the numbers of Chinese adoptions, and therefore the number of overall international adoptions, is falling away. This can only put pressure on the domestic adoption agencies, who will now be expected to produce children from elsewhere. It can only be a matter of time before another natural or war created disaster once again increases the rate of international adoption.

 


 








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