Adoption Announcement


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Fun Facts:

Contemporary adoption: Forms of adoption


OPEN adoption allows identifying information to be communicated between adoptive and biological parents.
CLOSED adoption, the norm for most of modern history, seals all identifying information.

There are different reasons for adopting: infertility, wanting to cement a new family following divorce or death of one parent, compassion motivated by religious or philosophical conviction, to avoid contributing to perceived overpopulation or health concerns relating to pregnancy and childbirth.

Adoption occurs between related family members and unrelated individuals. Historically, most adoptions occurred within a family, though. The most recent data from the U.S. indicates about half of adoptions are currently between related individuals.

Unrelated adoptions may occur through five mechanisms:

1) Private domestic adoptions: under this arrangement, charities and for-profit organizations act as intermediaries, bringing together prospective adoptive parents and families who want to place a child. This form of adoption accounts for a significant portion of all adoptions, in the United States; nearly 45% of adoptions are estimated to have occurred through private arrangements.

2) Foster care adoption: where a child is initially placed in public care. Of the 127,500 adoptions that occurred in the United States, about 51,000 (or 40%) were through the foster care system.

3) International adoption: Involves the placing of a child for adoption outside that child's country of birth. This can occur through both public and private agencies. In the U.S. for example, it counts for less than 15% of its cases.
Nowadays, the announcement is often comprised of a photo which is sent the month following the birth date. Digital birth announcement are growing more and more in popularity and it is not rare to receive a birth announcement by email. Digital souvenirs can be broadcasted all over the world in a blink of an eye!

4) Embryo Adoption: The state of Georgia in the United States is the first jurisdiction to include human embryos in it adoption laws. As of 2003, 400,000 embryos had been frozen in the United States alone and estimated 2% (~9,000) were available for donation.

5) Common law adoption: Is a phrase used to describe an adoption which has not been recognized, beforehand, by the courts, but where a parent, without resort to any formal legal process, leaves his or her children with a friend or a relative for an extended period of time. At the end of designated term of co-habitation, as witnessed by the public, the adoption is then considered binding. For example, the U.S. recognizes common law relationships after co-habitation of 2 years.

Attitudes and laws regarding adoption vary greatly. Whereas all cultures make arrangement whereby children whose own parents are unavailable to rear them to be brought up by others, not all cultures have the concept of adoption, that is treating unrelated children as equivalent to biological children of the adoptive parents.

Adoption is another word for love.


Source: www.wikipedia.org

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