Реферат: Adoption Nature Or Nurture Essay Research Paper
Adoption: Nature Or Nurture? Essay, Research Paper
Adoption: Nature or Nurture?
By
Clay Cooper
12/2/00
Are parents those who give birth to a child or those who care for a child? Does
nature or nurture make a woman a mother? As more and more heartbreaking tugs-of-war
between biological and adoptive parents surface, anyone searching for a baby has good
reason for concern(Casey 119).
Baby Jessica was raised from infancy by adoptive parents, Jan and Roberta
DeBoer. For two and a half years Jessica was at the heart of one of the most bitter
custody battles in America, caught between the parents in Michigan who reared her and
the parents in Iowa who gave birth to her and wanted her back (Ingrassia and Springen
60). Cara and Dan Schmidt took screaming baby Jessica from her home in 1993 when they
won their court battle to get her back (Casey 119). Baby Jessica is just one of the many
victims of child custody battles in America.
Jane and John Doe adopted a baby boy, Richard in March of 1991. Richard’s
biological mother, Daniela Kirchner, gave up her son while her boyfriend, Otakar, was out
of the country visiting his family. He had left Daniela just two weeks before Richard’s
birth. Daniela had heard rumors that Otakar had been cheating on her with another
woman, in Czechoslovakia, so she decided to lie to him about their baby, Richard. She
told Otakar that Richard had died just four days after his birth. In May of 1991 Otakar
returned to Chicago and the couple reconciled. Daniela told him about the adoption of
their son and how she lied to him about his death. Eighty days after Richard’s birth,
Otakar challenged the adoption. He claimed that he had no knowledge of his son until his
return to the US and now he wanted his son back desperately (Ingrassia and
McCormick 44).
The Does met in seventh grade in a suburban Chicago school but didn’t start
dating until they were in their early twenties. Married in 1979, Jane, a paralegal, and John
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