"The
de facto result (of in-country preference) is they would prefer to have the
children in institutional life rather than intercountry adoption,"
Bartholet said. "The results are more developmental problems, more kids on
the street and more cost to the government to institutionalize these kids."
I agree with that statement, shutting down international adoption could be bad
and good. The bad side of it is that more kids would be on the street and live
in bad home situations but the good side of it is that nobody would be taken
away from their parents when they don’t need to be. But to tell you the truth
reading about Srey Powers and how once she got to America, she bonded with her
adoptive mother about soccer, makes me think different about it being bad.
"In every human endeavor, there is a chance for abuse,"
said Elizabeth Bartholet, director of the Child Advocacy Program at Harvard Law
School, who adopted two children from Peru in the 1980s. Something to remember is that, there is good and
bad in everything and you can’t expect everything to go smoothly. Of course we
want to limit adoption when bad things happen but we could just accept it and
change to make it harder for the kids that have parents to be taken. Do
background checks and monitor things to make sure the adoption doesn’t become
human trafficking. Eliminating it entirely could in the end cause more problems
than it did when things went wrong.
“Smolin,
along with many other experts and organizations -- including UNICEF and the
Hague Convention on Intercountry Adoption -- believe that orphans being adopted
from abroad should be a last-case scenario, with more emphasis placed on
helping keep children in their home country, such as providing day care, foster
care, better orphanages and more domestic adoption.” This could be true
also but the people that have adopted from other countries have been fairly
excite d to give them a better life and even when trying to do that without
actually taking them away from their families could still not solve problems. The
kids when put in the right home, will all in all be better off and respect the
family that they have and be glad that they were taken away to have a better
life. I wouldn’t be too pleased myself but given the situation, I would be
happy in the end for the better life. I’m sure after that adjusting stage and
growing up; adopted kids soon realize that this is for the better. Even Powers
in the end visits with her grandma and her adoptive mother and watches her
mother put her grandmother at ease makes her respect the life she has and the
people in it.
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