Blog 8: We Need to Help Orphans Find Families

The past few decades have seen a major decline in international adoptions.  Part of the decline has to do with a suspension of international adoptions in countries such as Senegal, China, Vietnam, Ethiopia, and Guatemala.  The number of adoptions has decreased, but the number of orphans has increased.  These children are suffering from lives that are less than ideal.  Children living in orphanages are being neglected from not being held and not receiving the proper nurture and care they deserve.  As a result of the lack of proper nutrition and deprivation of human contact, these children are unable to grow up happy and healthy.  These children are also lacking critical human functions.  For example, a thirteen year old boy only has the mental capacity of a six year old because of institutionalization.  There is a push for creating safer adoptions in order to increase the number of children who are placed in loving homes.    

These children obviously are important.  You cannot deny that there is a problem in the adoption system.  There needs to be an increase in the safety of these adoptions which will also increase more adoptions.  I think that the system of adoptions should be changed in order to allow for families to have faster adoptions, but at the same time have a more intensive screening process for these children to be able to get into loving families.  There are children who need to be adopted.  Their lives will be changed dramatically by being adopted.  If children are able to be adopted, they will have better lives.  International adoptions need to increase overtime in order for the orphans to be cared for and to enter loving homes.  

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/craig-juntunen/international-adoption_b_1342072.html