Adoption Pros And Cons

Through Adoption orphans have found their dream family and couples have filled voids in their family through adoption. Overall, in typical cases, adoption has served as an avenue to happiness for both adults and children. However, the adoption system in its entirety is broken, the dream of adoption is not fulfilled for some couples, due to the meticulous adoption process. For this reason, some children are never adopted out, they spend their lives in various foster homes, or remain in an orphanage until eighteen. Although adoption is among one of the most rewarding and positive choices adults can make, it also has negative aspects involving the adoption process and foster care services making adoption difficult. There is a multitude of benefits that come from the adoption system. A part of the adoption system that is constantly left out is orphanages. Ultimately, orphanages in America are an overall safe haven for children with parents that cannot or choose not to care for their kids. According to Richard McKenzie, his life at the orphanage he grew up in was the best part of his childhood. He endured all forms of abuse as …show more content…
The system is referred to as “dangerously dysfunctional” due to many factors (Antonio 25). For example, states in America are required to provide services that keep families together, meaning that a child placed in an orphanage or Foster home will more than likely be returned to the neglect or abuse in their parent’s care (Antonio 25). On the other hand, children not returned to their biological families will be fostered out or put in an orphanage. The foster care system has its own negative aspects along with the adoption system as they coincide with one another. Likewise, many foster parents are abusive or choose to house foster children for “mercenary” reasons or for their own greed (Antonio 25). In contrast, some orphans like their foster parents only to be shipped from home to home by Social Workers (Antonio