A very interesting article here on 'failed adoptions'.
Interesting firstly just as it stands - after agencies take so much effort to screen prospective adptive parents, almost insanely daft loops to jump through in some cases, why do they cease their care/work when the adoption goes through? Should they assume all adoptions work? Are adpotions legally (and/or morally) exactly the same as biological birth, and if not, why not?
Secondly, and related to the "assume all adoptions work" approach - the same issues are present for all parents - not just adpotive ones. Why assume any given parent can handle any given child? Money obviously, but that 'obvious' hides a lot of indirect costs and could be totally wrong: I have no data to say true/false on that. And then there's the issue that money is no means to measure people or society anyway.
Interesting firstly just as it stands - after agencies take so much effort to screen prospective adptive parents, almost insanely daft loops to jump through in some cases, why do they cease their care/work when the adoption goes through? Should they assume all adoptions work? Are adpotions legally (and/or morally) exactly the same as biological birth, and if not, why not?
Secondly, and related to the "assume all adoptions work" approach - the same issues are present for all parents - not just adpotive ones. Why assume any given parent can handle any given child? Money obviously, but that 'obvious' hides a lot of indirect costs and could be totally wrong: I have no data to say true/false on that. And then there's the issue that money is no means to measure people or society anyway.
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