...Pet Adoption Many people have different thoughts on adoption. Such as why adoption is a good thing not only for the animal but also the owner, if each dog deserves a second chance, and if there should be kill shelters. Adoption is good for both the animal and the owner, by adopting an animal is gives them a new home that they deserve. Adoption gives the owner a sense of what the animal has gone through, which sometimes helps understand the way the animal may act and can help find ways to train them. Adoption gives the animal a new start and a family that will love them no matter what. It can also help a family come together in hard times and help each other get through it. I believe that every animal deservers a second chance. It’s not their fault they got beaten, thought to fight, or that they did not have food. They do not get to pick the family or owner they end up with or what they are thought to do. They do as they are told just to make their owner happy. Many people see the bad things that animals do and they see that animal as mean yet they do not see the person behind the dog telling it what to do, It is not always the dogs choice to act the way they do. Every animal should have a chance to have a good life that is full of love and kindness. They should at least have a chance to be the best animal that they can be. I do not think that there should be kill shelters. The only reason animals are being killed is because there is not enough room in the shelters for all of...
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...Adoption is an Option Adoption is but one of the many things in this world we can do to make a difference. Young couples, or families just getting started, should know that adoption is a positive option for starting a family. Adopting a child can change a family’s life. By adopting, families are helping children feel loved and safe. Adoption can be a struggle, useful for homosexual couples, good to get children out of inadequate countries, and a way to give a child what the birth parents could not. Adopting a child, or more, is both a struggle and exciting. Spending hours upon hours making phone calls and filling out paper work all to make a new addition to your family. The adoption process is where an individual or couple achieves the legal status of being the parent of a child that is not their own (Butler and Kirkby 3). The individual/couple must work with a child’s social worker to be able to adopt that child. Almost everyone is eligible for adoption, although different agencies may hold different requirements. It does not matter whether they are married or single, their age, their income, or their...
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...Journey 11th Grade 2012 Is Adoption an option? Adoption is one of the decisions that can be made with an unwanted pregnancy. Many women believe this is the best option. Adoption can be very difficult because of the emotional attachment involved. Some women who plan to have their baby adopted change their minds after giving birth. Giving up your child can be a very stressful time in a person's life. Some reasons why women give their baby up for adoption is, because they feel they can not give the baby as much love and support as he/she needs, or they can't financially support a baby at that time. Adoption is something that can be totally confidential and you don't need your parent's signature or consent for anything. Parents can neither force nor prevent adoption because they have no rights to your child. It is only legal to sign papers agreeing to adoption after your baby is at least six weeks old. This gives the mother time to change her mind. An adoption agency will place your child with the best suitable adopters. The mother and father can know as much or as little as they wish about the adoptive parents. After your child has been adopted you then have no right to contact your child. In some cases limited contact may be agreed. When the child is eighteen years old, he/she will legally be able to obtain their original birth certificate and adoption papers. Very few teens choose adoption. There are many reasons why, they bond to their unborn...
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...have in common? They were all adopted. The United States leads the world in the number of adoptions each year. “Between the years 2000 and 2001 one hundred twenty-seven thousands children were placed in adoptive homes through out the world”. (NAIC 1) With a number to impressively high, one might think the adoption process was fool proof. That is not the case. The lack of values in the adoption process must me recognized and fixed before another child is affected. Infertility is the leading reason for couples to look into adoption. (Annual Review of Sociology 4) When reviewing data from the 1995 National survey of Family Growth “(N=10, 019 women between the ages of 18 and 44) (4) found that fifteen percent of couples who have fertility problems are twelve percent more likely to look into adoption as a way to have a family of their own. (4) In a survey done of two thousand five hundred eighty seven adoptive parents stated that sixty nine percent adopted because of fertility problems and another twenty seven percent adopted because of religious and/or humanitarian reasons. (4) Of all the families throughout the world who decide adoption is the right decision for them, none of them for see a disaster like the following happening to them. About five hundred adoption or one percent is contested by mothers and/or fathers trying to regain custody of the child in which they gave up for adoption. (Ingrassia, Michele. “Ordered to surrender” Newsweek February 6, 1995: 2) An even larger...
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...Adoption in the Middle School Years Introduction To adopt a child means to take another’s child and raise him/her as one’s own. The process of adoption will have numerous rewarding experiences as well as difficult ones. When it comes to adopting a child in the middle school years, more challenges will present themselves than in any other age group. During this age, children begin to develop a sense of identity and begin to question their life experiences and their biological parents. School-aged children at this age go through numerous significant developmental changes. Much of their identity is derived from their family and peers in their lives. However, for adopted children, developing an identity is more complicated than non-adopted children. They have to assimilate two separate families and biological backgrounds as they explore how they fit in and the person they are growing up to be. Many of these children often face self-esteem issues and self-worth, and that is what makes them different from other children. A majority of adopted children have difficulty building social relationships with those around them and this can lead to depression, low academic performance, and even aggression. It is clear to see why adopting a younger child would be much simpler, but older children need homes, as well. Research 1 For many decades, adoption has become a highly successful solution for many adults who cannot provide for their children. Although adoption is viewed as a solution...
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...María Fernanda Ribas July 21, 2014 Why people should adopt? Adoption is a choice that parents have for giving a child three important things: love, a home and parenting. To think about what is best for your baby and about the future you want for your child is what adoption is all about. The majority of children that have been currently put in adoption were removed from their parents before two years old. In other words children who enter foster care at a young age remain longer. Every child deserves to be loved, to be taking care of, to feel protected by his/her parents and most important to show them that adoption can be a life changing for them. Each adopted child has different types of backgrounds. Because of this, parents that know they are prepared for adoption should have the mentality of knowing what the child’s background is and know what they’ve been through. As a matter of fact there are posibilities that these children may have various types of reactions and personalities. They could be positive or negative depending on their past situations. Also if parents give their adopting child a chance to explain to them how she or he are feeling about being adopted it could be a good head start and turned out a better relationship. The majority of parents that believe they have a chance to adopt must go through a process. In this process parents should have a plan for their child...
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...SEC's adoption of IFRS which I think will be a beneficial situation to corporations, investors and auditors. Although the SEC continue to support IFRS, it currently does not allow U.S public entities to use IFRS on our major stock exchange. The SEC has been reluctant to adopt IFRS standards for decades. The IFRS has been working with all countries to harmonize their standards. The goal is to use a single set of enforceable global accounting standards that will unify the reporting of corporations worldwide. The IFRS standards are principle based and simplified. This makes it easier to follow than that of US GAAP; therefore, IFRS is the more convenient choice and should be adopted. By adopting IFRS Corporations will be able to trade goods and services worldwide without local governmental pressure and rules. This will minimize transaction costs to US companies, which leads to lower prices, an increase in competition and highly satisfied customers. Businesses will be able to present financial statements on the same basis as their foreign competitors, which will increase comparability between the company’s financial positions. Another benefit for US Corporation doing business as many entities multinational is that it limits the reporting to IFRS, which will increase consistency and transparency in its reporting. By using IFRS to replace GAAP and IFRS, combined, however, people argue that the U.S GAAP is the gold standard and that some quality will be lost with the adoption and...
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...Gay Adoption Family is not determined by blood relations, legal documents, or a last name. The traditional definition of family is one man and one woman raising their children together. The key word is traditionally; America is so caught up in traditions. Traditionally, it would be ridiculous to think that a child could be raised in a gay household. But it is becoming more acceptable in our society to embrace different ideas of what a family should be, such as the acceptance of gay adoption. Gay adoption should be allowed because there are far too many children without loving homes, because it is prejudice to deny homosexuals the right to adopt based on sexuality, and because it is narrow-minded to assume that heterosexuals make better parents than homosexuals do. In the United States alone, the number of children forced into the foster care system is unimaginable. According to the most current Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System Report there were about 423,773 children in foster care in the United States on September 30, 2009 ("The afars report," 2010). Each foster child in the system should have a chance at adoption. To deny homosexuals the right to adopt is heartbreaking for both the child and the potential gay parent or couple. Gay parents are already serving as foster parents towards children; adoption is simply confirming the legal rights of the gay couple. The sexual orientation of a potential parent looking to adopt should not matter; the child should...
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...How do you feel when knowing that you are just an adopted child - not the biological child? These conditions are experienced by many children after they have grown up they eventually find out that they are not the biological child of the two parents who have raised them. Surely knowing that they are only adopted children is very painful. It really hurts. So as parents what actions would you take after the children you have raised know the actual condition? Why do spouses have to adopt a child? Spouses sometimes have difficulty having children until they finally decided to raise a child as their heart entertainer. But parents sometimes do not realize that raising a child will become a problem later on if the child knows that they are only adopted children. When parents decide to adopt children, they should be able to keep it secret by moving to a new house or moving to another city. It's very important to keep the adopted child's feelings. I know a friend of mine who is in fact an adopted child. He told me he was deeply hurt when he found out he was only an adopted child. His foster parents kept it secret but neighbors let the cat out of the bag. He overheard a conversation that mentioned him being an adopted child. He was not brave enough to ask his parents. In my opinion, adopted child or biological child is not a problem. Adopted child who has grown up since he or she was a baby is just like a child of their own. He will have the nature of people who raised him....
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...article studied and surveyed adoption agencies around the world to discover their policies and attitudes toward lesbian and gay people as prospective adoptive parents. A survey was used as the statistical procedure and a chi-square test was used as a statistical test. The statistical procedure used in this study of adoption is a questionnaire. They were mailed to directors of adoption programs from public and private adoption agencies across the United States. The total was 891. Two-hundred-fourteen of the questionnaires were used in the study. The questionnaires were from 194 private adoption agencies from 45 different states and 20 questionnaires from 20 public adoption agencies from 13 different states. From the 214 questionnaires used in the study, 165 were women and only 28 were men. The mean of their ages were 46.5. “The questionnaire was designed to identify current adoption agency policies and practices, as well as social casework attitudes, regarding adoption of children by lesbians and gay men.” The questionnaire conducted was of 13 questions. These 13 questions asked about agency type, religious affiliation, number of placements for adoption made within the two-year period of 1995-1996, percentage of placements involving domestic infants and toddlers, older, and special needs children, and children from foreign countries, awareness of state law on adoption of gay and lesbians, agency policy about this issue, number of adoptions from gay or lesbians from...
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...began explaining, to the doctor, about their concerns. They described Clara as a quiet child who has recently begun throwing temper tantrums, during which she is inconsolable. Clara’s sleep and eating patterns have changed, and she no longer wants to go to preschool. Based on the limited information provided in this scenario, there are other questions that I would like to see answered. The very first step I would take, before asking for more information from the adoptive parents, is to remove Clara from the room and place her in an atmosphere that better suites her, like a play room located in the office building. After Clara is removed from the office, I would start of by asking if the adoption was an open adoption, and the age when Clara was adopted. If the adoption was not an open adoption, the true parents of Clara could be trying to make contact with her while she away from her adoptive parents. This can cause confusion in Clara, and possibly be a reason why her behavior has all of a sudden changed. I would also ask how long they had Clara, and if they had any information on Clara’s biological parents. If they did have background information on the biological parents, I would want to find out if there was a history of any psychological disorders or mental illnesses that could include; depression, anxiety, or any learning disabilities. I would ask if anything changed in their household since...
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...computers from a company who might not last a year. Jobs needed to change this image. Therefore the “Think Different” campaign was an attempt to change to consumer’s perspective for the company. With the “Think Different” campaign, the writers wanted to remind both their consumers and their staff, how Apple thinks differently, using rhetorical appeals of logos, ethos and pathos. It also symbolized the return of the genius that was removed from the company. Apple had lost the “creative” touch during his absence therefore it was very essential for him to create a campaign that would remind the consumers what Apple brand was all about. Through the campaign they hoped to gain their cool, hip image back. The writers used reasoning (logos), rhetorical appeal to stimulate audience’s common sense, beliefs and values by honoring revolutionary heroes and rationalizing that creative thinking produces positive change. The writer used pre-existing simple facts that drew conclusions in their favor. The visual elements included a set of historical influential people having certain common traits regardless of their diverse impact on the world. A few of the common traits were to disagree with the norms of the time, question the status quo, thinking differently and a strong will to change the world. The message of the piece is to honor those who think differently. Since the people who think differently, like Apple are the ones who change the world. The...
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...G141/COM1002 Section 02 Introduction to Communication - 2015 Spring Quarter Movie Analysis – Juno By: Hope Schabel Juno is a movie that came out in 2007 written by Diablo Cody, and directed by Jason Reitman. Juno is based on a young girl who gets pregnant at sixteen years old and has to make some hard decisions about how to proceed regarding her unexpected pregnancy. Juno first goes to an abortion clinic but then decides to have her baby and put the baby up for adoption because she realizes she is too young for the responsibility of taking care of a baby. Juno goes to the baby’s father, Paulie, to tell him she is pregnant and see how he feels about giving the baby up. Paulie agrees with Juno. The rest of the movie takes us through Juno’s experience finding an adoptive family, her pregnancy, the internal battles she is facing with finding the right family, having to give her baby up, and trying to maneuver through an adult situation being only a teenager and understand it all. In the end Juno does give the baby up for adoption and even though difficult she begins to learn to move on and live her life again as a teenager knowing her baby is in the very capable, loving hands of Vanessa, the adoptive mother. During the course of this communication analysis paper the two key comminution elements of Juno that will be focused on will be, the exchange theory (cost/reward) and artifacts. Juno is an excellent movie that can teach us how important it is to have good communication skills, which...
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...Vita Kellett Kate Hamm English 050 November 4, 2012 Audience My audiences are the people who think about adopting internationally and people who just might be interested in finding out more about adoption outside of the United States. I will try to use many examples of international adoption and how that affects the child. Anyone could read this paper but I believe that this information would be more interesting for those who want to find some answers about international adoption. Purpose The purpose of my paper is to inform and to those who want to adopt internationally about straggles they might have and what’s the better way to deal with them and how to find answers. Also I will try to persuade my audience to adopt more and to change lives of those who aren’t so luck and happened to not have any family. Thesis statement If the U. S. department of state international adoption services would provide classes on what to expect when you adopt independently overseas then the families that are adopting would be more prepared. Content: Background of the Problem When you adopt overseas you are indeed changing not only your life but the life of the adopted children. You are showing them what it is like to have a lovely home and a family that takes care about you. But why do some of these children still have a hard time adapting to it? It is obvious that they will have to learn new ways in the new country but there is more to that. Some of the adopted children...
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...different sex and have a different blood type than the mother. (AbortionNO). Abortion is never the way to handle a pregnancy because there are many side effects, there are other options, and it is murder. Abortions go back to the 1800’s. It used to be a matter no one would speak of. “Choices once unanimously considered criminal and rejected by the common moral sense are gradually becoming socially acceptable; it’s the culture of death” (Paul). Abortion was a back alley process, but now it is accepted by people and considered a women’s “choice”. There are also laws allowing these killings to happen. This has become a very controversial issue in today’s society. Some believe it is a women’s right to do what she wants with her body. While others think that life is started at the time of conception, which is why having an abortion is killing a life. “The very right to life is being denied or trampled upon, especially at the more significant moments of existence the moment of birth and the moment of death.” (Paul) The choice to have an abortion is not only morally wrong but inhumane not to mention the side effects that are left from having an abortion. Having...
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