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Is Child Adoption Good Or Bad?

The question “Is child adoption good or bad?” often arises when prospective parents seek to adopt a child from a dangerous situation, such as those that may occur in abusive circumstances. For these parents, the decision to adopt a child from a situation of abuse can be heartbreaking. In order to decide if adopting a child from a dangerous environment is the best option, one must consider what the advantages and disadvantages of doing so are.

Adoption, by definition, is the act of putting a child into a new family. Adopting a child from a dangerous environment eliminates any risk that could be posed by the child’s natural parents. The birth mother and father will both be required to pass the necessary background checks to adopt the child. The new family will also be asked to undergo therapy and counseling in order to prepare them for raising the child in a safe and healthy environment. While these benefits certainly outweigh the disadvantages of adopting a child out of a dangerous environment, it should be noted that the benefits do not negate the disadvantages.

The most obvious disadvantage of adopting a child out of a dangerous environment is the possibility of harm coming to the child. Most abusive situations involving children result in psychological issues that the child has to face. Adoption agencies specialize in working with adoptive parents who have experienced similar psychological issues in the past. Since all adoptive parents have a unique history of abuse and neglect, there is a good chance that the adopted child will have similar psychological difficulties to deal with.

Another disadvantage of adopting a child from an abusive environment is the possibility of exploitation. Though many adoption agencies take care of the screening and grooming of the child, potential caregivers and/or exploiters may try to take advantage of the child in some way. This could include the possibility of forcing the child to perform dangerous tasks or be placed in a situation where they could be sexually abused. An adoption agency can minimize this risk by taking measures to screen and interview any possible caregivers.

Adoption agencies also provide protection for the child in the form of a protective child custody agreement. This type of agreement protects the child in a variety of ways from a number of potential threats. It may be used to limit the time the child spends away from his/her biological parents, prevent any visitation by non-related family members, and prevent any contact with the birth parent or adoptive parents. As the agreement is drawn up between the adoptive parents and biological parents, it becomes standard practice to include a provision allowing the biological parents to visit their child occasionally and/or allow for medical visits.

Child adoption also provides opportunities to interact with other children from different backgrounds. Though the child has already been placed with an adopted family, the prospect of interacting with other children of his/her age, culture, and religion can be an enriching experience. Many churches offer special programs that welcome unwed or gay families. Adoption agencies and other groups also provide these services.

While the idea of sharing one’s child with another adult makes some parents feel comfortable, it can also cause anxiety, stress, and fear in the child. For children who have experienced this situation in the past, the idea of living with strangers on a daily basis can be overwhelming. If the prospective parents are truly concerned about the child’s well being, they should consider the possibility of doing a thorough background check on the prospective adoptive parents. This can help them find out if they have any history of child abuse or neglect and can help prevent the parents from adopting a child who may become a victim.

Is child adoption good or bad? The answer depends largely on the parents. Good foster parents can make a huge positive difference in the lives of children. Unfortunately, many children are removed from loving and nurturing homes for a variety of reasons and given to terrible environments where the best care is sometimes not even available. If the adoption process is planned carefully and responsibly, however, child adoption can be a wonderful chance for a child to have a stable and loving home.

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An Overview About Child Adoption

What can you do when you find out that there is an adoption agency in your area? There are a lot of misconceptions surrounding the adoption process. Many people are not sure what they think they are getting into. People also question the motives and the ethics of a child adoption agency. The truth is that these questions are valid, but you do not need to worry about these things. You can learn about the adoption process, and you can understand it better.

First of all, there is a misconception that an adoption agency will force a birth mother to give up her child for adoption. This is not true. Agencies will not force a mother to give up her child for adoption, because the child belongs to the family. Adoption is a voluntary process, which means that it can only happen if the birth mother is willing to give up the child for adoption.

A birth mother may choose not to give up her baby for adoption. She may want to raise the child herself, or she may want to protect the family that she is adopted into. If a birth mother chooses not to give up her child for adoption, this does not mean that she is wrong in some way. The adoption process is simply meant to ensure that a child is well cared for in a loving and secure environment. She will not be forced into adoption, and she will not be discarded by the family.

Why would a birth mother leave her baby for adoption? There are a number of reasons that can explain a woman leaving her baby for adoption. Some women may be forced to leave her baby because of abuse. She could be killed or have an unsafe life. She could be left alone with an abusive or neglectful father. Or perhaps she was made to work in the orphanage as a child.

With all of these reasons in mind, it is understandable why she may not want to put her child up for adoption. However, adoption is not always fair. Many children are placed for adoption who are there because of abusive circumstances. They may be victims of rape or domestic violence. In these cases, an adoption agency cannot be expected to look out for the best interests of the child.

What is the role of an adoption agency? The role of an adoption agency is to ensure that the birth mother is properly cared for during the adoption process. They can provide help when it comes to paperwork, meetings, and legal issues. They can also answer questions that the birth mother may have about adoption, such as what the legal procedures are and what kind of financial support she might be provided.

What can an adoption agency do for me? An adoption agency can help provide a safe and loving environment for your child. They can prevent your child from being exposed to potentially abusive situations. They can also help provide a loving and secure home for your child after adoption. The agency can also work with you to ensure that your child understands the significance of adoption and that he or she is prepared to embrace it and become a part of the adopted family.

As you consider all of the things involved with adoption, including the possibility of placing your child for adoption, it is important to keep in mind that the adoption process itself is only one step. The birth mother and the agency must work hand-in-hand to ensure that the adoption goes smoothly and your child is well-taken care of throughout the process. If you are in the process of adoption or if you are a birth mother looking to find a way to support a child left at birth, contact an adoption agency today.

White Americans turn out for Floyd protests, but will they work for change?

White Americans turn out for Floyd protests, but will they work for change?

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Leslie Batson, a white office administrator from Maryland, joined the thousands of marchers protesting the killing of George Floyd in Washington, D.C., last weekend after her children asked why the family had done nothing about racism.

FILE PHOTO: People gather to protest for the removal of a Confederate statue of John B. Gordon at the Capitol in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. June 9, 2020. REUTERS/Dustin Chambers/File Photo

“This is my attempt to help elevate the voices of people of color, people who don’t look like me and who don’t benefit from the status quo,” Batson, 42, said on Saturday, as her 9- and 11-year-old children hid shyly behind her.

In recent days, white Americans have donned “Black Lives Matter” shirts, carried homemade signs, and shouted “Hands up, Don’t shoot” in cities and small towns (here) across the United States. Sometimes they lay down in the streets, just as Floyd, an unarmed black man in handcuffs, lay face down and struggling to breathe as a white police officer knelt on his neck.

Books like “White Fragility” and “The New Jim Crow” are topping U.S. best-seller (here) lists, and social media is flooded (here) with #BlackLivesMatter posts. Fortune 500 companies and sports franchises, predominantly run and owned by white Americans, voiced support (here) for anti-racist activism, and the New York Stock Exchange held (here) its longest moment of silence ever for Floyd.

The United States has a long history of white participation in civil rights protests, but the current outpouring of support is unprecedented, historians and social scientists agree.

That said, many question white Americans’ long-term commitment to do the work to fight racism.

“Historically, when we see higher levels of participation from white folks in movements and moments like this, that participation falls off precipitously after we move away from the protest,” said Charles McKinney, associate history professor and chair of Africana Studies at Rhodes College in Tennessee.

After civil rights activists leading protest marches in Selma, Alabama, in 1965 were beaten bloody by police, twice as many Americans polled expressed sympathy with protesters than with the state of Alabama, Pew Research noted (here).

In a separate opinion poll at the same time, however, 45% believed the U.S. administration of President Lyndon Johnson was moving too fast on the voting rights and integration that protesters advocated.

McKinney is analyzing whether the high white protester turnout will translate into laws that aid the Black Lives Matter movement.

“In order for this to be the last racial inflection point… white America must end its sideline sympathy and assume full ownership of this problem,” said Allyn Brooks LaSure, a former U.S. diplomat, and executive vice-president for communications at the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, a national coalition of civil and human rights groups.

That would include awkward conversations on family Zoom calls, in work conference rooms, and at Thanksgiving dinners, he recommends.

REAL CHANGE OR TALK?

Big companies around the world which have typically stayed away from this debate have pledged (here) over $1.7 billion to advance racial justice and equity. City councils are voting (here) to cut police funding and limit police tactics, and statues to the slave-holding supporters in the U.S. Civil war are coming down.

Reuters research shows (here) some of the same U.S. companies have elevated few African Americans to top jobs; two centuries after it started, the NYSE’s traders and management remain overwhelmingly white; an anti-lynching bill named after a black teen killed in 1955 failed to pass the U.S. Senate on June 5.

On June 8, senior Democrats, including House speaker Nancy Pelosi, donned kente cloth, a Ghanaian fabric that is a prominent symbol of African arts and culture, knelt in the U.S. Capitol building for nearly nine minutes of silence for Floyd.

Charles Preston, a Chicago-based black activist and organizer, called the gesture “ridiculous.”

“I think it’s a charade, it’s hollow, it’s empty and I don’t understand what is the purpose of kneeling,” he said. Politicians, he said, should push for policy changes that help African-Americans instead.

The very gesture, known as “taking a knee,” echoes the “Black Power” raised-fist salute that U.S. Olympic medalists Tommie Smith and John Carlos made on the medal podium at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics.

Half a century later, it was still controversial when San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick took a knee to protest police brutality and racial injustice in 2016. Years after leaving (here) the team, he has yet to be picked up by another.

A NEW GENERATION

Melanie Campbell, president of the National Coalition on Black Civic Participation, said veteran activists have doubts this phase will endure for long. But she said the level of anger and frustration after Floyd’s death is new.

    “This is a generation seeing mass shootings in schools, a divisive president, black people being killed and they are pushing back,” she said.

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And the demographics of the country itself are changing.

One in 10 eligible voters in the 2020 electorate, about 22 million Americans, will be part of a new generation that is the most ethnically diverse in U.S. history, Pew reports (here), with just 52% of the generation white.

“This is not an unsurmountable task,” said Kyle Holman, a 21-year-old white student in Washington, D.C., who protested on Saturday. “If we can just start by acknowledging that things can be really bad for people of color, have scales fall from our eyes, we will move this debate forward,” he said.

Reporting by Nandita Bose and Heather Timmons; Editing by Howard Goller

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Philippine doctors shield families with ‘quarantent’, safe spaces

Philippine doctors shield families with ‘quarantent’, safe spaces

MANILA (Reuters) – After taking a job in a hospital’s COVID-19 emergency room, Philippine doctor Jan Claire Dorado planned to move out of the family home to protect relatives from the risk of infection.

Jan Claire Dorado, 30, a doctor assigned to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) Emergency Room of East Avenue Medical Center, bonds with her mother and cat from behind the small plastic window on her makeshift isolation room to protect her family from potential exposure to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines, June 26, 2020. Picture taken June 26, 2020. REUTERS/Eloisa Lopez

But Dorado’s parents insisted the 30-year-old keep living at home, so her father constructed a makeshift isolation area in a storage room there.

Now, when she returns from work at one of the country’s main hospitals treating coronavirus patients, her dinner is placed outside the room’s door on a stool.

“The hardest part is being away from them. I miss them a lot,” said Dorado, who greets family members from behind a plastic window on a wall covered in foil.

Her parents are considered high-risk for COVID-19 because of preexisting conditions, and Dorado said she once painfully refused her mother’s request for a hug.

Hundreds of Philippine medical workers have been infected by the coronavirus and more than 30 have died.

Safekeeping loved ones is also a high priority for paediatrician Mica Bastillo, even as she confronts COVID-19 head on.

The 38-year-old took on a new role at a children’s hospital in another part of Manila after it became a COVID-19 referral facility in April.

“My family thought about asking me to resign, but anywhere I go I would still have to face COVID,” she said.

With her father and sister battling medical conditions, the family built a makeshift tent next to their home for Bastillo, which they dubbed a “quarantent”.

Made out of plastic sheets to keep out the rain, it allows Bastillo to be with her family at a safe distance.

“My mother put the curtains and the table cloth to make it look like home… And my brother added the plastic sheet. It was a real family effort,” said Bastillo, who still joins her family for nightly prayers seated beside the front door wearing a mask.

Additional reporting by Neil Jerome Morales; Writing by Ed Davies. Editing by Gerry Doyle

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Pompeo calls China Muslim sterilization reports ‘shocking’ and ‘disturbing’

Pompeo calls China Muslim sterilization reports ‘shocking’ and ‘disturbing’

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Monday labeled as “shocking” and “disturbing” reports that China’s ruling Communist Party is using forced sterilization, forced abortion and coercive family planning against minority Muslims.

FILE PHOTO: U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks during a joint briefing about an executive order from U.S. President Donald Trump on the International Criminal Court at the State Department in Washington, U.S., June 11, 2020. REUTERS/Yuri Gripas/Pool/File Photo

Pompeo highlighted a report about the situation in China’s Xinjiang region by German researcher Adrian Zenz published by the Washington-based Jamestown Foundation think tank.

Pompeo, a persistent critic of China, including its treatment of Muslims in Xinjiang, said in a statement the findings were consistent with decades of Chinese Communist Party practices “that demonstrate an utter disregard for the sanctity of human life and basic human dignity.”

“We call on the Chinese Communist Party to immediately end these horrific practices and ask all nations to join the United States in demanding an end to these dehumanizing abuses.”

In his report, Zenz said his findings represented the strongest evidence yet that Beijing’s policies in Xinjiang met one of the genocide criteria cited in the U.N. Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, namely “imposing measures intended to prevent births within the [targeted] group.”

Zenz said analysis of Chinese government documents showed natural population growth in Xinjiang had fallen “dramatically.” He said that in its two largest Uighur Muslim prefectures, growth rates fell by 84% between 2015 and 2018 and further in 2019.

The Chinese Embassy in Washington referred to a statement by Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian, saying that “some institutions are bent on cooking up disinformation on Xinjiang-related issues. … Their allegations are simply groundless and false.” 

Documents from 2019 revealed plans for a campaign of mass female sterilization targeting 14% and 34% of all married women of childbearing age in two Uighur counties, Zenz wrote. The campaign, he said, likely aimed to sterilize rural minority women with three or more children, as well as some with two children – equivalent to at least 20% of all women of childbearing age.

“Budget figures indicate that this project had sufficient funding for performing hundreds of thousands of tubal ligation sterilization procedures in 2019 and 2020,” he wrote.

Zenz said that by 2019, Xinjiang planned to subject at least 80% of women of childbearing age in its four southern minority prefectures to intrusive birth prevention surgeries – placement of intrauterine devices or sterilizations.

He said that in 2018, 80% of all new IUD placements in China were performed in Xinjiang, while only 1.8% of the population live there.

Reporting by David Brunnstrom; Editing by Leslie Adler

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Mexican president slammed after comments on women staying at home

Mexican president slammed after comments on women staying at home

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Thursday suggested the tradition of women staying at home to take care of older family members was key to battling the coronavirus pandemic, sparking criticism his comments were sexist.

FILE PHOTO: Mexico’s President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador holds a news conference at the National Palace in Mexico City, Mexico, March 17, 2020. REUTERS/Henry Romero

This is not the first time the 66-year-old leader has been accused of making tone-deaf comments and lacking empathy towards women.

“People want to change women’s role and that is one of the just causes of feminism, but the tradition in Mexico is that daughters are the ones who care the most for parents. We men are more detached,” Lopez Obrador said.

Whereas seniors in nursing homes in Europe had suffered with the pandemic, Mexico’s elders were helped by the custom of being cared for at home, he said, adding that the “Mexican family is the most important social security institution” in the country.

“Translating the president’s nineteenth century thinking when he says: men are more detached, he means irresponsible; daughters take care of their parents, he’s referring to unpaid work; tradition refers to machismo; feminism wants to change roles, true transformation,” Martha Tagle, a lawmaker with the Citizen’s Movement party, said on Twitter.

The hashtag AmloMachista, or sexist AMLO in reference to the president’s initials, was trending.

“AmloMachista insists on sending women to be ‘caregivers’, but we have news for him, we are citizens and we are feminists who will no longer tolerate his presidential misogyny,” Claudia Castello, who describes herself as a sociologist and feminist, wrote on Twitter.

Lopez Obrador’s prickly reaction earlier this year to criticism of his administration over brutal murders of women in Mexico riled feminists and undermined support for him among female voters, helping to fuel protests.

Lopez Obrador has been chastised for not taking the virus seriously enough and pushing for a reopening of the economy too soon.

Mexico has the seventh highest coronavirus death toll in the world with 25,060 deaths and 202,951 cases.

Reporting by Anthony Esposito; Additional reporting by Stefanie Eschenbacher and Frank Jack Daniel

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Former Argentina coach Bilardo tests positive for coronavirus

Former Argentina coach Bilardo tests positive for coronavirus

Former Argentina coach Carlos Bilardo, who is a guest for the program Futbol Forever, speaks at a news conference in San Salvador March 31, 2011. REUTERS/Luis Galdamez/Files

SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Carlos Bilardo, the man who coached Argentina to victory in the 1986 World Cup, has tested positive for the new coronavirus, a source close to his family told Reuters on Friday.

“They carried out a test and it was positive, although he has not shown symptoms and he is good,” said the source.

His former club Estudiantes tweeted in support of Bilardo, their 82-year old former player and manager, who has been living in a nursing home in Buenos Aires since 2018.

He coached a team led by Diego Maradona to the World Cup in Mexico in 1986 and the final four years later and also won three Copa Libertadores titles as a player with Estudiantes between 1968 and 1970.

Argentina has reported 1,184 deaths from COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus, according to Health Ministry numbers.

Reporting by Ramiro Scandolo in Buenos Aires, writing by Andrew Downie in London; Editing by William Mallard

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Mexican president slammed after comments on women staying at home

Mexican president slammed after comments on women staying at home

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Thursday suggested the tradition of women staying at home to take care of older family members was key to battling the coronavirus pandemic, sparking criticism his comments were sexist.

FILE PHOTO: Mexico’s President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador holds a news conference at the National Palace in Mexico City, Mexico, March 17, 2020. REUTERS/Henry Romero/File Photo

This is not the first time the 66-year-old leader has been accused of making tone-deaf comments and lacking empathy towards women.

“People want to change women’s role and that is one of the just causes of feminism, but the tradition in Mexico is that daughters are the ones who care the most for parents. We men are more detached,” Lopez Obrador said.

Whereas seniors in nursing homes in Europe had suffered with the pandemic, Mexico’s elders were helped by the custom of being cared for at home, he said, adding that the “Mexican family is the most important social security institution” in the country.

“Translating the president’s nineteenth century thinking when he says: men are more detached, he means irresponsible; daughters take care of their parents, he’s referring to unpaid work; tradition refers to machismo; feminism wants to change roles, true transformation,” Martha Tagle, a lawmaker with the Citizen’s Movement party, said on Twitter.

The hashtag AmloMachista, or sexist AMLO in reference to the president’s initials, was trending.

“AmloMachista insists on sending women to be ‘caregivers’, but we have news for him, we are citizens and we are feminists who will no longer tolerate his presidential misogyny,” Claudia Castello, who describes herself as a sociologist and feminist, wrote on Twitter.

Lopez Obrador’s prickly reaction earlier this year to criticism of his administration over brutal murders of women in Mexico riled feminists and undermined support for him among female voters, helping to fuel protests.

Lopez Obrador has been chastised for not taking the virus seriously enough and pushing for a reopening of the economy too soon.

Mexico has the seventh highest coronavirus death toll in the world with 25,060 deaths and 202,951 cases.

Reporting by Anthony Esposito; Additional reporting by Stefanie Eschenbacher and Frank Jack Daniel

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Singapore PM says election not about family feud as brother joins opposition

Singapore PM says election not about family feud as brother joins opposition

FILE PHOTO: A woman with a face mask walks past a screen showing a telecast of Singapore’s Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong addressing the outbreak of coronavirus disease (COVID-19), at the central business district in Singapore, April 3, 2020. REUTERS/Edgar Su

SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Singapore’s Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said on Monday a July 10 general election was not about him or a family dispute with his siblings after his estranged brother joined an opposition party.

Lee Hsien Yang, younger brother of Lee Hsien Loong and son of modern Singapore’s founder, Lee Kuan Yew, said last week he had joined the new Progress Singapore Party.

He said the People’s Action Party, which has governed Singapore since independence in 1965, had “lost its way” without his late father.

“He is within his rights as a citizen. This GE is not about me or any family disputes which may involve my brother and me,” the prime minister said when asked about his brother’s decision.

“It’s about Singapore’s future at a very grave moment in our history when we are facing the most serious crisis we’ve seen since independence,” he said.

“Health, jobs and the future” should be the major focus, he said.

Reporting by Aradhana Aravindan in Singapore; Editing by Robert Birsel

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