The Children Who Wait
The Children Who Wait
Essay By: Marsha Traugot
In this essay, Marsha Traughot discusses and analysis a new trend in adoption. She also suggest the regions and factor responsible for this change in attitude towards adoption. She says that in the past, there were large numbers of children labeled unadoptable. But now a wider verity of families can open and opening homes for those unadoptable children. In setting for the causes for this change in adoption trend, she discusses and presents examples from the society.
The essay opens with a newspaper profile of about five gears old girl Tammy. Tammy has charming out looks but she suffers from total alcohol syndrome. The disease could put a stop to her intellectual growth at any time. Twenty years ago Tammy would have been to tally rejected by adoptive families because she is non-white, over five years and handicapped too. In the port it was hard to find matching adoptive families because they set forth various criteria for the children to be adopted healthy white children not overage.
But in the last two decades the field of adoption has been changed a lot adoption has been made easier because of new techniques, various civil rights movement birth control, changing social values, social science research, harsh economic reality also played a vital role in easing out the process of adoption. Black Civil nights movement encouraged interracial adoption by raising the standard of human decency and justice. The women's movement and the increasing the availability of birth control legalized abortion changes new views on sexual behavior and marriage reduce the number of healthy adoptable in fronts. Now less unwanted babies were burn and unwed mother and specially teenagers preferred to take care to their babies themselves with the help of their on families. The created scarcity of adoptable children and even there were new reports of secrete sales of adoptable children in foster home's and waited to be adopted.
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