Реферат: Adoption Nature Or Nurture Essay Research Paper

boyfriend” (99).

Children learn to bond, trust and love during their first years and removing a child

from it’s home where her or she makes their first attachments can make it hard for her to

connect with others later in life. The blindness of the legal system to the child’s

psychological and emotional needs is devastating to the child (Diamant 96).

Whether we are learning, the sagas of children like Jessica and Richard rivet us, to

a degree that far out-strips their actual numbers (Ingrassia and McCormick 45). The best

interest of the child is often in the eyes of the beholder. It can be very elusive (Hegger 1B).

The pool of prospective adoptive parents has never been larger due to the baby

boom generation. Our insecurity over adoption is at an all-time high in part because

interest in adopting is also at a peak.

Kristi Carman, who works in the national headquarters of Concerned United

Birthparents (CUB) in Des Moines, believes that adoption should be avoided whenever

possible because it causes “a lifelong trauma for all involved” (Diamant 96).

In early August 1994 the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State

Laws drafted The Uniform Adoption Act. It states laws on services to birth parents,

timeperiods for revocation of consent, pre-placement evaluators of prospective adoptive

families, disclosure of medical and social background information, contact between the

children and birth parent, order of placement, transracial adoption, multiple new

requirements for state public social services agencies, records, confidentiality and access

and birth fathers.

Many people and organizations oppose the proposed Uniform Adoption Act. A

few are the Child Welfare League of America, The American Adoption Congress,

Children Awaiting Parents and The Adoption Exchange Association. Many of these

organizations feel that the Act fails to adequately protect the rights of the children, and

focuses instead on expediting the permanent separation of infants from their birth parents

in the absence of adequate counseling, exploration of alternatives and procedural

safeguards.

It was the absence of these crucial ingredients of conscientious adoption practice