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Adoption Backlash Lately, there's been a backlash against adoption in the media. Maybe people are just tired of the media saturating their news with too many details about celebrity adoptions by the likes of Madonna (Esther-Kaball.) and Guy Ritchie, Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman, Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt, Meg Ryan, Rosie O'Donnell, Steven Spielberg and Kate Capshaw, and the list goes on & there are tons of famous adoptive parentsmost people don't even know about. With the increase of international and interracial adoptions, maybe the backlash also has a bit to do with prejudice, xenophobia, and a fear of cultural genocide. Or maybe, as always, bad news leads and the adoptions clouded by corruption are more fun to report on than the hundreds of thousands of legal and ethical adoptions that turn out well. And maybe it has to do with fear of change. Many people still believe the myth that a parent-child bond can only be formed between a child and their biological parent. They believe that adoptive parents and their adopted children can't overcome dissimilar DNA. They believe that a child should only be raised by their biological mother, period, and that otherwise, children are doomed to emotionally chaotic and unfulfilling lives. Let me just put that last myth to rest. While many people, myself included, have had a great experience being raised by their biological parents, many children would be better off if they had been adopted. For instance, the cases of more than 200 women in the United States who kill their children each year . Those children would probably have been better off if they were adopted.
Adoption Statistics Here are some more sobering statistics from Adoption - A Family by Choice : · Every 15 SECONDS, another child becomes an AIDS orphan in Africa · Every DAY 5,760 more children become orphans · Every YEAR 2,102,400 more children become orphans (in Africa alone) · 143,000,000 Orphans in the world today spend an average of 10 years in an orphanage or foster home · Approximately 250,000 children are adopted annually, but & · Every YEAR 14,050,000 children still grow up as orphans and AGE OUT of the system · Every DAY 38,493 children AGE OUT (never know a mother and a father) · Every 2.2 SECONDS, another orphan child AGES OUT with no family to belong to and no place to call home · In Ukraine and Russia 10% -15% of children who age out of an orphanage commit suicide before age 18. · 60% of the girls are lured into prostitution. 70% of the boys become hardened criminals. · Many of these children accept job offers that ultimately result in their being sold as slaves. Millions of girls are sex slaves today, simply because they were unfortunate enough to grow up as orphans. So, don't knock adoption too hard, because there are parents out there who desperately want a child, and there are children out there who desperately want a parent. And in the majority of cases, there's nothing wrong with bringing them together and making happy lives.
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