Department of Communication Date: 03/20/2018 COM203 Name: Bernadette El Jamous ID: 201302642 Preparation outline for Persuasive speech General Purpose: To persuade Topic: Single Parent Adoption Specific purpose: To persuade the audience that a single person is fully capable of raising a child on their own and therefore should take the legal right of adoption too. Introduction: Why would a single man or women give up on their freedom and decide to raise a child? Cherishing and sharing life as a family, is a worldwide need that any individual at a certain age would like to accomplish. However, in our today world people and specially adults are getting more independent and not …show more content…
The main solution needed for this problem is adoption. This is the reason why single individuals should be able to adopt and should be treated as any other couple willing to go through this process. A. If an individual chooses to be single and not be in a relationship or get married, this doesn’t automatically means that this individual is not skilled enough to raise a family. 1. Organizations can implement the solution of single parent adoption, by taking into consideration that any married couple that adopted a child, could get a divorce at any moment. And we also have to consider that any single individual can get married eventually. 2. According to Child Welfare Information Gateway (2011), studies and statistics have revealed that adopted children raised up by single individuals experience results that are as good as those for children adopted by couples. B. Agencies and organization started adopting this new solution and excepting more and more the fact that single parent are capable of adopting children as any other couple. 1. The growing number over the years of one-parent households due to divorce and to unmarried women having and keeping their children and with so many children living in this type of childhood environment, pushed the adoption agencies to consider unmarried men and women as potential adopters for these overgrowing numbers of abandoned and homeless children around the …show more content…
Single parent adoption can result in several benefits for both the adopter and the adopted. A. The benefits of the adoption procedure by single parents on the abandoned children. 1. The welfares of adoption can be touched by a uncountable number of individuals all over the world, as approximately everybody has been affected by adoption in some kind of way. Neighbors, friends, families– not only a family is formed but also the young abandoned individual will have a Life secured for him and will be able to live with people that picked to cherish and love them. It is better to be raised by one parent then none at all. 2. It is better to be raised by one dedicated individual, than two who are continuously backbiting and fighting. The kids are our future, and must be taken in by anybody who is willing and proficient of doing so, regardless of their marital status. B. The benefits of the adoption procedure on single parents. 1. Individuals that couldn’t get pregnant or get married will have the opportunity through single parent adoption to live a parenthood and transmit their infinite love and attention to a child they chose to devote their life
How can adoptions increase “Many see adoption as a universal remedy for a host of problems from overpopulation to infertility” (psychologytoday.com). The process of adopting a child is very difficult. There are many problems with adoption such as cost, how long the process takes, and how many kids there are to adopt. To decrease the amount of time it takes to adopt, the process should decrease in price, become more efficient, and awareness should increase to make more homes for parent-less children. The adoption process should be made easier because it creates a better environment for a child to be raised in.
In contrast, adoptions can create diversity within the countries while lowering the rates of homeless children. Wherever a family decides to adopt from, each adoption differentiates depending on the environment and the circumstances. Besides giving children homes, adoption provides many benefits for the United States as well as other countries around the world. China, for example, participates in the One Child Policy that limits Chinese families on the amount of children they are allowed to have in their family due to control population.
“An estimated 1.5% of children born annually in the US are relinquished for adoption” (Adoption 4). Adoption is the act of being adopted and taking in, upbringing and raising if children who are not biologically related. Adoption is another way to make a family; it is a lifetime decision, and that should be made carefully. Many children in the US and even the world are being adopted into loving homes every year. Adopting a child is an experience that promises to bring great joy as it changes a couple or individual’s life forever.
The stability of the adoptee is crucial to caring for the child. One must be able to care for themselves before they can take on
Open adoption gives the adoptive parents better ways to answer the questions of the children or child. Open adoption also can help the children or child to get why they were adopted. This is because concerns can be confronted by everyone who was there for the adoption. Although the adoptive parents could feel threatened by the open adoption it will benefit the children or child by the truth, clearness and the responsibility of this process. (Castellucci
It is less formal and typically involves a related family member taking that child into their home and raising them. However it is very common for people to adopt children outside of their own country, this process is known as international adoption or intercountry adoption. As with any adoption complications can arise, in Sweden 5,942 internationally adopted children were studied and compared with people of the same ages, general population, and immigrants within Sweden. The study showed that the children adopted often had psychiatric problems and received long term help from social welfare services. It also brought to light ethical problems within international adoption.
Women have been fighting for their right to be free and equal human beings in the American society for quite some time now, starting with the Woman’s Suffrage Movement of 1848. When the movement ended, women of America could finally say that they were “born free and equal in dignity.” I believe that with this freedom, includes the right to access Planned Parenthood (and other related businesses), without question. In recent years, many Republicans have vigorously attempted to ban the funding for all Planned Parenthood clinics and facilities.
This heavy financial cost, extensive time span, and turmoil that it takes to go through adopting a child in the U.S is taking away from couples and individuals dreams of having a fair chance of being able to raise a family of their own some
As being mentioned above, raising a child is a hard task with a lot responsibility, it also costs a lot of money. Especially when you are someone who already has your own children, and now you have this child that you adopted from the foster care. You have to provide both of them same or equal opportunities to do things to make it fair for both of them, and make sure both of them feel like being loved. I personally know a family that have made the adoption of their relatives’ kids. They could afford to have this kid but it would be hard for the family to keep the standard of living like it used to be without this kid.
Also, parents that cannot have kids can finally have the opportunity. Adoption is so beneficial to our world today because it gives the birth parents the ability to get an education and finish school, it allows parents who cannot have babies a chance to have a child, it gives children a better life if they have come from abused households, and because of international and transracial adoption. Transracial and International adoption allows children from different countries a chance to have a family. Transracial adoption is a
Inquiries and interviews reveal the shattered family view that open adoption adoptees face every day. Adoptees often “fight feelings of being unloved and unwanted, even though [they are] constantly told how much they [are] loved” (Siegel, “One Adoptee from an ‘Open Adoption’ Tells Her Story”). This often occurs because their biological family relinquished rights to the child and gave them to another family, only to infrequently and erratically surface in the child’s life, confusing their feelings of being loved and wanted. Family structure, according to one young adoptee, is “unstructured and ambiguous. It includes legal ties that lack genetic ties and genetic ties that lack legal ties, both of which have emotional ties” (“What Growing Up In An Open Adoption Has Taught Me As An Adoptee”).
Higher adoption fees and long waiting periods reduce exponentially the chances of a kid to get reinstituted into a family. Thus, to increase the chance of shelter kids to grow with a family, adoption fees and waiting periods should be decreased. People have two options to adopt, through the state or through a private agency. If families choose to choose the state adoption, there some requirements they have to meet: they need to be financially stable, past a background check, and be able to provide
Regardless if a single does not qualify for some part of the adoption i strongly believe that they should be able to adopt a child as long as they have steady income. To conclude, having a child in one's life can be great in so many ways it’s crazy, there are a lot of single lonely people out in the world and kids can be the solution. By having a kid in their life they create a bond and the adults are not so lonely anymore which helps both parties. Adopting is not an easy process, singles have to prepare and go through a lot to get the chance to raise a child, therefore
Not being able to afford a child (or another child) was the second most important reason given.” However, these abandoned kids are not lost and most of them eventually get homes with loving families. When women can’t give a birth to a child, couples consider in adopting a kid to
This is the amazing point of adoption because giving the children the chance of living a normal life, is what every kid dreams of every night before they go to bed. Having to kill a child because a couple of parents wither didn’t plan for a child or came closer to having this child and found out that they couldn’t afford them. There will always be a family out there that is welcome to taking in a kid even if it is until they have a permanent home. Also there is the option of being foster parents, which is where couples who don’t necessarily want to take in a couple of kids full time, they could just have them for a short time while they find the perfect match of parents for this