NationStates Jolt Archive

What are everyone's views on the adoption of children? By adopting, are you giving a kid a second chance or just trying to be parents without furthering the species? Do people have a moral obligation to have children of their own, or are people doing a service by adopting kids with no homes?

From my view, plenty of kids are without homes, and parents should be encouraged to adopt them. Gay, straight, single, married, doesn't matter as long as the adoptive parents can manage. Adoption fees should be all but eliminated except small fees for running background checks, and parents who adopt should be given noticeable tax breaks regardless of where they adopt from, even if the government gives greater incentive for adopting from their own country.

Adoption should be encouraged over having children. One of the major critiques of over-population is that it happens in areas no one wants to live in, third world countries without forms of birth control where parents leave their kids in dumpsters because they don't have any way to take care of them... leaving the first world countries decreasing rapidly in percentage compared to them. Adoption of these underpriviledged kids really ought to be advocated... no, we certainly don't have an obligation to continue the species, there's way too many of us on this world already.

Anyway, if I ever go mad and decide I want to raise children, I would adopt an unwanted kid from Russia or Argentina or something. I don't want kids, now or ever, but it's what I'd do.

Adoption should be encouraged over having children. One of the major critiques of over-population is that it happens in areas no one wants to live in, third world countries without forms of birth control where parents leave their kids in dumpsters because they don't have any way to take care of them... leaving the first world countries decreasing rapidly in percentage compared to them. Adoption of these underpriviledged kids really ought to be advocated... no, we certainly don't have an obligation to continue the species, there's way too many of us on this world already.

Anyway, if I ever go mad and decide I want to raise children, I would adopt an unwanted kid from Russia or Argentina or something. I don't want kids, now or ever, but it's what I'd do.

I tend to agree with that...trouble is, people value their race, blood line, religion, or whatever over the lives of children who really need decent homes. All I hear from people at this board is "Wah wah wah whites are a minority in their own homes whites have to have more children wah wah wah" and frankly the fact that people would rather bring more kids into the world instead of raising the ones already here is illogical at best and disgusting at worst. And the fact that governments encourage this is even worse.

I think adoption should be greatly encouraged, but putting children up for adoption should be discouraged. If more women felt they had the choice of abortion (without fanatics attacking and judging them at every turn), there would be less homeless children, and less suffering in the world. Less people unable to provide for themselves, too.

But then again, I'm pro-choice, so this would actually be a realistic scenario from my point of view (because, you know, I hate to spell it out, but... abortions? = no need for adoption? Hence less homeless kids? etc?).

I think adoption should be greatly encouraged, but putting children up for adoption should be discouraged. If more women felt they had the choice of abortion (without fanatics attacking and judging them at every turn), there would be less homeless children, and less suffering in the world. Less people unable to provide for themselves, too.I don't think that's true. Putting children up for adoption if you cannot give them a good home ought to be greatly encouraged over keeping them in a bad home.

But then again, I'm pro-choice, so this would actually be a realistic scenario from my point of view (because, you know, I hate to spell it out, but... abortions? = no need for adoption? Hence less homeless kids? etc?).
I am both pro-choice and in favor of improving the adoption system. I just think it leaves less chance for kids to become the dregs of society, and more chance that they'll be happy and better taken care of. I know it's not a perfect system, but I think it's better than leaving kids in dumpsters (I keep using that example because a friend of mine was adopted from Russia, she was found by the agencies in a dumpster in Moscow. I'd rather know that my mom put me up for adoption because she couldn't take care of me, than that she left me out on the streets like a piece of trash.)