What is the Adoption
Process?
Putting a child up for Adoption
Putting up a child for adoption can be a difficult process, knowing that
the parent is putting up another human being into legal care of another
person other than the birth parent. To even think about putting a child
up for adoption both of the parents on the birth certificate have to agree
with this decision just as long as both of the parent are alive. Both parents
then have to sign the form which allows this process to commence. Parents
are probably thinking, what if I was raped or what if the father does not
keep in touch with me even when I try to bring him into my child’s
life. To answer this question the mother will not have to get consent from
the father if her pregnancy was a result of a violent act. Also, the mother
will not have to get consent from the father unless he has writing claiming
that he is the father of the child and provides his address and personal
identity. Not only do both parent need consent from each other, if the child
is over the age of ten years old, they will have to agree with the adoption
too
("Giving up a child for
adoption").
Since
thousands of children are put up for adoption every year we wondered if
the teens we surveyed would ever adopt one of the children. We gave the
survey to a number of fifty teens ranging in ages from fourteen to eighteen
years old. This question in particular was asking if they would ever adopt
a child. They either answered yes or no. Out of thirty-two females twenty-five
of them said they would adopt while the other seven said they would not
adopt. On the other side, thirteen males said they would adopt while the
other five said they would not adopt. Below you can see the graph of the
results.
Adopting a child
There are different ways to go about the adoption process depending on what
type of adoption the person would like to complete. However, there are basic
steps for any adoption process. The steps include choosing the type of adoption
that the adopter wants to complete. Once the adopter has decided on what
type of adoption he/she wants he/she can begin to research agencies with
which to begin an adoption process. Another important step of the adoption
process is the Home Study.
The
Home Study is essential to this process because the adoption process depends
on the type of home that the child will be a part of. The house must meet
certain standards that the agency is in charge of setting. The house should
be well accommodated for the family members, and everything else should
be prepared for the new family member to join the family. Choosing the child
that the adopter is going to adopt is the most important part of this process,
as well as what following it, this is the placement of the child. The child
must be placed with the most accommodated family. This can become a hard
process to follow depending on the race of the child. The adoption process
may also become different depending on where the adopter is choosing to
do the paper work to finalize the adoption process.