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  • Essay / History of Adoption - 1152

    In today's society, more than 143 million children worldwide grow up without parents (United Nations Children's Fund, 2006). This is largely due to homelessness, wars, natural disasters, and diseases that produce many unadopted children (Bartholet and Smolin, 2012). Parentless children face a high risk of perception, poor care, abuse and exploitation, and their well-being is routinely insufficiently monitored. Many children deprived of parental care are placed in appalling institutions, where they receive less personal attention and insufficient caring environments can diminish children's sense of self and societal advancement and leave them defenseless against exploitation, sexual abuse and physical brutality (United Nations Children's Fund [UNICEF], 2006). This illustrates the inequality of children's rights in society. Adoption meets the needs of children by providing parents with a better environment than an orphanage or foster care. Adoption is an exceptional method to overcome inequalities in today's society by preserving human rights and meeting the aspirations of childless people. To provide historical context for adoption, in ancient times and in human cultures, children were taken away from guardians who could not be parents to guardians who wanted them out of affection (“Adoption History:Timeline of Adoption History », nd). Adoption is a legitimate procedure that permanently grants parental rights to adoptive parents. The legal bond leads the adoptee to become the legitimate heir of the adoptive person and puts an end to any legal existence with the original guardians. There are two types of adoptions: open adoption and closed adoption. An open adoption allows or...... middle of paper ...... money (Clark, 2013). He points out that adopted children have more value in real society than the supposed materials. Additionally, the care, love, and time of adoptive families can address children's developmental delays. Care, love and time are very necessary for new foster children because they come from different culture, tradition and living conditions. In the final analysis, adoption is an excellent method to solve current problems and both adoptees and adoptive parents can benefit from it. each other. Not only helping children deprived of parental care to become child parents and simultaneously resolving the inequality of children's rights, including adoption, meets the aspirations of childless people. If people do not realize ethical self-help, our society will be full of poor children without parents and stress of inequality in our society..