The Practice of Adoption: History, Trends, and Social Context
In 2003, Baden suggested that adoption is everywhere and it is practiced
and processed even in the old times it is just been upgraded to cope with the
modern world. But there are issues that aren’t tackled or popular with the
common people or the whole society. There are closed cases on adoption
and the lack of psychological involvement to the said issues. There are many
fields that adoption related lacks such as: social work, psychiatry, law and etc.
There are a lot of situation where they are needed the most, they must be
covered that only these fields can be fixed.
There are different kinds of adoption; there are local and international
adoption. The local is where they adopt on the same state or country and the
second one is where they go to a different country to foster children with
different race and ethnicity and they will soon be brought to the fostered
family’s country. In the US adoption is so rich because of the legality of gay
marriage, a lot of same sex couple would like to have a child of their own
since surrigation is a expensive process they will turn to adoption. There is
kind of adoption called “special needs adoption” where the child will be
adopted in the age of 5 and older and is belong to a sibling group. The
difficulty of doing a special needs adoption is where the child is already aware
on his/her well-being. Him or her wouldn’t want to be adopted without their
siblings, if they are separated with each other will cause a big problem. With
the said situation the child might show a behavioral, physical and
developmental issue (Baden, 2003).
Baden also cited that there are different ways and kinds of adoption are
tackled in this paper including the adoption of the spouse’s child/children.
Society and families must be open to this issue and they must be informed by
sharing of other parents or being open about the idea of adoption. Open
adoption helped a lot of families to build a strong connection and relationship
with their child and other families who have the same situation. The
participation of every person that is included or related to the child will help
the process a lot faster, the interaction of the biological and adoptive parents
will make the whole adoption process accessible to the both parties.
History of adoption are concluded in this study and the different kinds of
adoption that helped the researches become aware about the circumstances
that is going on behind the adoption process. Not only the government, but
also the society must be aware of the issues about adoption because the
percentage of orphan children are rising up as every year comes. With the
help of the present fields and practitioners they are able to upgrade the
construction of adoption. Social trends, Problems, Cultural Values, Historical
events, etc. are part of the shaping of the said situation. As time goes by, the
adoption centers are always ready and accessible to whoever want to adopt a
child (Baden, 2003).
There are some fields that the mentioned paper lacks such as social work.
Social work is a important part of the process, they are the one who monitor
the well being of the child and the situation of the adoptive families. They are
the source of the center to get information regarding the foster family, whether
they treat the child negatively or positively. Social workers will be present until
the child has grown up or if the child can handle themselves and is
responsible and mature enough to handle difficult or problematic situations
(Baden, 2003).