Adoption

What is involved in the adoption of a child?

Adoption is a legal process that will make the adopted parents fully responsible of the adopted child by law. Legal adoption began in England and Wales in 1962 and in Scotland in 1930, with the first adoption acts. Over the past decade, the number of babies available for adoption has declined dramatically. The legal and social requirements are numerous whether the adopted child is within the UK or overseas. Couples seeking adoptions have to come to terms with their infertility and may have a period of grief before seeing adoption as a positive alternative.

Adoption requires both partners to be heavily involved, committed, and positive. For those women who feel deeply that a part of their life has escaped them as they did not enjoy the months of pregnancy and did not go through the pain of labor and the pleasure of childbirth, for them adoption may not be a good option.

Adopted parents should be prepared to accept emotional reactions as the arrival of the adopted child may reawaken feelings of their grief over their infertility, emotions to which they had worked very hard in the past years to overcome. It may also be a reminder of their failure and inability to bear their own children. The adopted parents may feel guilty about their own emotions, when they are trying to establish a loving relationship with their adopted child. As, that new loving relationship starts to develop and intensify, the grief will gradually disappear.

There are many ways to adopt, each adoption experiment is different, parents adopt through public or private agencies that exist for the purpose of finding homes for children in need. Adoption agencies are able to provide counseling, support services and follow up. Private adoption have more liberal polices & shorter waiting lists.

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