...Positive aspects could be of knowing your medical history and not mourning of background knowledge. Negatives could happen when you learn things about the birth parents that are hard to read about or when your birth family is not who the adopted child wanted them to be. With all of the questions and all of the unanswered problems, every state has different laws and regulations on whether you can see your original records as an adult. All states have their reasonings and their experiences behind why they choose if you seal or unseal all adoption documents, but that is what makes it so confusing. Adopted children turning into adults want to know the secret behind why they were given up at birth. With all of the states having different rules, it is hard to go through each state to try and figure out records that belong to someone. But, in all states there will be problems that have been known to go wrong in each situation, which is why most decisions made with sealing or unsealing the records is up to the birth parents and can be taken to court in most...
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...report explores the impacts of adoption on the birth parents, the adoptive parents and the adopted...
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... Abortion Alternative B. Better the Quality of Life C. A Second Chance Arcieri 1 Recent studies in the United States have shown that thirty-four percent of teenage women will become pregnant at least once before the age of twenty. Of the 820,000 teen pregnancies each year seventy-nine percent occur out of wedlock, while one third never achieve a high school diploma or GED (Chappuis). It is estimated that about five percent of teen mothers end up putting their child up for adoption. As for the ninety-five percent of those teen moms that choose to raise their child on their own, many of them feel differently about their decisions once they attempt to balance the hardships of raising a child with living the life of a teenager ("Abortion.org"). This can easily lead to added stress levels, an unhealthy environment, and improper care for the child. One and a half percent of teen moms that decide to keep their child do not achieve a college degree before the age of thirty (Chappius) where as on average forty-three percent of adopted children end up in homes where at least one parent already has a college degree (Zill). Looking at these statistics it is easy to concur that a child whom is adopted from a teen mother is likely to have a higher quality of life and a better home environment than if the birth mother were to raise the child herself, therefore adoption is a positive alternative to teen motherhood. What is child adoption and where did it come from? The process in...
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...Estella is the adopted daughter of Miss Havisham. From meeting Pip to marrying Drummle she carries a very cold attitude towards males which remains with her from Havisham's teachings. Estella acts like a cold and heartless woman, she remains true to her upbringing and the reality of her being heartless and incapable of love. Which hurts Pip even more, as he can not stop loving her but she does not love him back. She plays as she grows from a child to a woman toying with many suitors along the way, but never as detrimental as she did Pip. She claims that she treats Pip the best out of all other suitors, "Do you want me then," said Estella, turning with a fixed and serious, if not angry, look, "to deceive and entrap you?" (Dickens 312). Truthfully she acts under Havisham's revenge ideas but she does nothing to stop this and carries these actions through with no emotion....
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...NATURALISM INTRODUCTION Naturalism is considered as the oldest philosophy in the western world. Naturalism is a philosophical position adopted by the naturalists, whose approach to philosophy is purely from scientific point of view. Naturalists believe that nature alone represents the entire reality and is there beyond or behind other than nature. For naturalists, nature is everything and nothing exists superior than nature. So they separate nature from God and allot no space for supernaturalism and spiritualism. They also believe that all our activities are initiated by our instincts. Naturalism stresses the need to return to nature from artificiality. It is also concerned with natural self and believes that reality and nature are identical and beyond nature there is no reality .With the help of physical and chemical laws, naturalism explains the universe, the physical world, life and mind. This nature is governed by its own laws and man is regarded as the child of nature. It considers matter as superior to spirit and gives importance to scientific methods of observation and verification. MEANING OF NATURALISM The term naturalism, by its ordinary meaning, means ism laying emphasis nature in every field of education. Naturalism is a system which follows exclusion of whatever is spiritual, or indeed whatever is transcendental of experience from our philosophy of nature and man. Naturalism is a doctrine that separates nature from god, subordinates sprit to matter and setup...
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...humanities. Biography of Sigmund Freud * Sigismund (Sigmund) Schlomo Freud * March 6 or May 6,1856 * Freiberg, Moravia * September 23,1939 (aged 83) * He was the firstborn Child. Jacob Freud (1875-1896) * Amile Nathansohn Freud (1835-1930) * (Julius, Anna, Rosa, Marie, Adolfine, Paula and Alexander) * In 1885 he received a traveling great from the UV an decided to study in Paris. * Hysteria * Catharsis * During the late 1890’s, Freud suffered both professional isolation and personal crises. * In 1902, Freud invited a small group of somewhat younger Viennese physicians. * In 1908, this organization adopted a more formal name. * In 1910, Freud and his followers founded the International Psychoanalytic Association. Levels of Mental Life Freud’s greatest contribution to personality theory is his exploration of the unconscious and his insistence that people are motivated primarily by drives of which they have or no awareness. Unconscious * The unconscious contain all those drives, urges, or instincts that are beyond our awareness but that nevertheless motivate most of our words, feelings and actions. Although we may be conscious of our overt behaviors we often are not aware of the mental processes that lie behind them. Preconscious * The preconscious level of the mind contains all those elements that are not conscious but can become conscious either quite readily or with some difficulty. Conscious ...
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...stories have clouded adoptions from Guatemala. Despite these difficulties international adoptions by US citizens have tripled in the past 5 years and legislation has been passed to make it easier for these adopted children to obtain citizenship. While some children complain of a feeling of cultural dislocation, others are sent to Chinese-American summer camps and seem delighted with their new homes and dual identity. The long-term effects of such migrations are hard to predict but many opponents call for more efforts to be made to house children in their country of birth, with proper support for domestic orphanages and adoption schemes. | | Arguments | Pros | Cons | | | | International adoption removes children from the culture into which they were born. Often this causes a sense of dislocation as the child grows older because the do not feel fully a part of their adopted culture nor the culture of the country into which they were born. These feelings can be exacerbated by racial or ethnic distinctions. | | Whatever maybe lost culturally is more than made up for by the benefits of growing up in a secure and loving environment rather than an ‘institutional’ setting. Many parents go to great lengths to learn about the culture of their child’s birth country giving the child the advantage of learning about two cultures as it grows up. With the growth of multicultural societies in most countries many children having...
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...poverty. 22,000 children die each day because of hunger. An estimated 870 million people worldwide do not have enough food to eat and 80 percent of the world population lives on less than 400 pesos a day. Because of this awful reality, the United Nations have listed them on the top priority and concerns of the world. Education for All (EPA) is seen to address this problem. As cited in the Millennium Development Goals which is to open the doors and expand the opportunities for education to all mankind. There are a lot of solutions for poverty but I believe that the main key is education. As we all know, education enriches the traits and identity of one individual, as well as his or her intellectual capabilities. It provides knowledge and enables any man and woman to put his or her potentials to optimal use. As a result, it raises a person from deep scarcity to finest job opportunity. However, do all populace have the right to education? Education is a fundamental human right. Every individual, irrespective of race, gender, nationality, ethnic or social origin, religion or political preference, age or disability, is entitled to a free elementary education. This right is explicitly stated in the United Nations' Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), adopted in 1948, Article 26, which states that everyone has the right to education. Education shall be free, at least in the elementary and fundamental stages. Elementary education shall be compulsory. Technical and professional education...
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...ethical issue than a political one. Numerous religions evoke the practice of homosexuals. Those who stand against homosexuality are considered to be homophobic, their choice to do so is no less nor greater than the decision someone makes to like their own. Discrimination and marginalization of gay people is present in almost every society, despite the global stride for equality. People who despise or abominate homosexuals built their rebellion upon teachings from the bible. However, if every sin mirrors the same weight, why isn't there laws that stands against adultery? This shows how humanity's perception of life is warped and twisted to satisfy what we think is acceptable. Prohibiting gay marriage is grounds of discrimination, evidently preventing someone from being happy and satisfied should not be within human protocol. It is no longer a theory rather its reality and also adoption rates will genuinely sky rocket due to their inability to reproduce. Scrutinizing someone's lifestyle from a prospective that it should imitate yours, is contradicting humanity's theme, equality. Despite one's skin color, race or gender, they should have equal rights and be entitled to privileges that everyone considered acceptable is. Likewise with homosexuals, their sexual orientation should be a norm among this predominantly borderline society. Within the LGBT community (Lesbians Gays Bisexual Transvestites) they all share this one mutual thought; their choice to be gay should be recognized...
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...PERSPECTIVE ON CHILDHOOD ADVERSITY Modern health research defines childhood adversity as a range of unfavorable experiences that a child may have experienced before attaining the age of 18 (Pais & Bissell, 2006). A more recent definition provided by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) describes Adverse Childhood Experience as a range of challenges, including abuse (emotional, physical and sexual), household challenges (violent treatment of the mother, household substance abuse, mental illness within household, parental separation or divorce and criminal household member) and neglect (emotional and physical) that affects a child before the age of 18 (CDC 2016). As such, the question on what defines an adverse...
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...characteristics of genetic research in the 1990’s and beyond. The authors use ethical principles, case studies, and opinion poles from various age groups to assemble public reaction to what is emerging as a very complex issue in our society today. They ponder the questions of intervention vs. non-intervention in specific case studies about paternalism, dwarfism, privacy, and flawed gene heredity relating to retardation. In two of the cases, aborting the unborn fetus is at issue if the genetic test results do not favor the parents wishes for the child. This raises health, ethical, and legal arguments which are traditionally at cross-purposes. The issues even hearken back to Roe v. Wade whereby the reason to abort is indisputable. On the other hand, terminating an otherwise healthy fetus can be viewed as selective childbirth, not unlike “the abortion of female fetuses in China”. Having knowledge of what is to come, even in the future of the child’s life is making the difference. More parents are being told genetically determined information about their unborn and existing children, which prior to the advances in the last five years they had no access to. The case relating to paternity is purely a moral one. It focuses on the question of whether incidental information which is generated by genetic testing, outside of what has been requested, should be divulged or not. This also raises the issue about the nature of the genetic information, and whether it should influence the decision to...
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...Inter-country Adoption: A Brief Background and Case Study Inter-country adoption (ICA) is a practice that has gained popularity over the years, and there is every reason to believe this trend will continue. For couples (or individuals) whose country of residence has few healthy babies available for adoption, going outside the country for a child is a desirable option. It is also desirable from the perspective of the child, who usually comes from a country with more available children than potential adoptive parents. Right away, these seem to be two very compelling reasons to support the idea of inter-country adoption, and work toward its best model. The purpose of this paper is to give an overview of inter-country adoption using India as a case study. The paper will give a brief background of ICA and the main problems it both addresses and raises, then look at the case of India in particular, and, finally, provide some directions for policy and further research. Background on ICA ICA began in earnest as a response by North American countries to the post-WWII devastation. At that point, it was a humanitarian reaction to the needs of the newly-orphaned children in Europe. Since that time, ICA has shifted its focus to become a means for individuals in the developed world to have children. In most Western nations, the number of healthy infants available for adoption has been steadily decreasing, due to a number of social and economic factors including widespread...
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...carefully use power to judge, to reason, to distinguish the false from the truth, good from evil, ugly from beauty, are qualities that have formed through schooling and this need increases itself as soon as it is stimulated. At some point, one does not even require guardianship regarding culturalization. Cultural plurality, once internalized, awakens and opens new possibilities. Thus, culture gives birth to culture. School should potentiate and develop in students the capacity for adaptability and understanding not only in terms of knowledge, but also that of true culture, knowing how to use what one knows to behave intelligently and lead a remorseless existence. Conditions of modern life require that every human has to learn every day; school is where learning starts and this learning that the child receives should provide what is necessary so that, in the future, self-improvement would be employed: education and teaching are thus an initiation, an opening. A series of acquisitions of cultural goods, by their presence, does not guarantee empowerment of individuals. A genuine culture is actually a set of objects possessing two qualities while apparently contradictory: first, to proliferate in a horizon of universality, to flirt with transcendence and then allow an approximation of a single irreducible topic, to have potentiality of molding the individual in such a way to prepare him for the unpredictable. The elevation of a free individual requires not only a sharing of knowledge...
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...parent luckily remains just that in most instances. However, every once in a while the nightmare becomes shockingly brutal reality and someone loses their child. A grief, completely unimaginable for anyone who has never experienced it, is laid upon one as if it was a carpet of lead. For many people it is the sole aim that they have built their life around and with the blink of an eye it is gone. How does a parent cope with this unparalleled pain? And is it possible to repress the memories and start a new life after an absolute lowpoint? It is exactly this issue the short story ”The Arena” by Martin Golan provides an insight to. The short story was written in 2008 and the setting is a father, who is also the first person narrator, driving his son to the local New Jersey suburb sports arena early in the morning. His son is attending an away game with his lacrosse team and is being dropped off at the team bus waiting outside the large ”structure of steel and cinder block” locally known as the Arena. On his way there, the narrator’s mind starts wandering due to a mixture of early morning clarity and the deserted suburbian roads and it is soon made clear what his thoughts are surrounding. The father lives with his wife and their son, whom he is in the car with, but his thoughts keep circling around his previous life with another woman and their adopted, now deceased, son Willie. The traumatic event of losing his son in a traffic accident is still haunting him and he struggles...
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...minor characters and imagery, Lahiri and Penn endeavour to demonstrate the effects of culture, childhood and family, in particular, on shaping individuality. Diverse settings are employed by Lahiri and Penn to portray culture and its influence on the personas of the central characters. A ceremonial setting is common to both texts and foreshadows the protagonist's desire to retreat from his traditions. Gogol's 'annaprasan' is a customary Indian rice ritual for newborn children, who 'confront [their] destiny' by selecting a 'clump of soil ... ballpoint pen, [or] ... dollar bill' from a plate, respectively representing 'a landowner, scholar or businessman.' Gogol's refusal to choose an object, a rare act, alludes to his reluctance later in life to identify with Bengali culture. Similarly, the formality of Chris' graduation ceremony, established through the thousands of students wearing graduation outfits and musicians playing on bagpipes, is interrupted by Chris' aberrant leap onto the stage when his name is announced,...
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