Not in how the west exploits adoption, but in other countries how are adoptions, if at all, practiced?
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December 22nd, 2009 at 10:18 PM
Let me answer for India.
You go to an orphanage and choose from the ones that are ready to be placed. You must be meeting all guidelines that are put down by the goverment under CARA. Documentation is done and then you take the child home for fostering.After several month to a year the court grants you full custody.
Private adoption practises are highly unethical and more popular but not too common. Don’t have stats though to offer. You know a doctor, and then she/he knows some expectant mother(poor or unwed) or a mother post birth (mostly after realising its a girl child after birth since sex determination during pregnancy is not allowed) and she knows of some one who is looking to adopt privately. The doctor or hospital authority calls the PAP and they come and take the baby. In the hospital records they show the AP as the mother who delivered. The Adoptive parent keeps the child and pretends the child was born to them.
I know of both cases. My 2 cousins were adopted privately and secretly.
I have friends and acquaintances who adopted from the orphanage.
December 23rd, 2009 at 12:20 AM
I’m in a western country…Australia
But the attitude towards adoption from what I read here is different from the US. Adoption happens only after reunification of mother child is attempted several times. Family preservation is first.
No pre-birth matching or private adoptions are allowed. NO money exchanges hands and nope, you don’t give ‘gifts’ to a woman giving up her child. (Money or otherwise) etc.
That has happened within one or two generations. I could go on and on about the differences so i avoid it I’ll just give the website that someone else posted a while back that. What gets to me is that people seem to view adoption as a right, rather than a privilege to be able to give a child who needs a home- a home. Inter-country is even harder with its assessments. You have to prove why your suitable to adopt a child from another culture. lots of people get knocked back. They do in local adoptions too. There is only a limited number of people allowed in the adoption pool at any one time. So I do feel privileged to be an adoptive parent in a time when adoption is more ethically done, and not meeting the needs of adults. (Not everyone passes the assessment, you have to go through a lot more than just a criminal record check to be approved. And its longer than fostering assessments.)The people that are being picked for the pool seem to have a good attitude towards things like open adoption etc.http://www.originscanada.org/comparison.…