International Adoption Services

Executive Sumary about Adoption Services by Peter Emerson

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International adoption services are usually provided by adoption agencies and function as mediators between children and their prospective parents.

Elina Adoption Services Inc. is a non-profit organization based in Georgia, which offers international adoption programs for countries like Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan and Bulgaria.

International Adoption Services, Inc. works towards providing secure homes to orphans in different parts of the world. They have an experienced team of adoption-related training, and most of the staff members are adoptive parents themselves.

Based in Minnesota, they provide services like pre- and post-adoption counseling to parents and children, “Advisement Prompt,” placements throughout the United States, translation of documents and immigration assistance.

Their website also has a full-fledged photo gallery with personal information on children available for adoption in Guatemala.

Open Adoption - Paradigm Or Return To The Past?

Executive Sumary about Adoption Services by Romain Levesque

It also allowed the child the opportunity to grow up within an extend family, preserving the culture, biological, moral and religious values of the family.

Heavily regulated by government agencies, adoption services were shrouded in absolute secrecy to prevent any further contact between birth mother and child. In forfeiting parental rights to their child, they were also making a decision to forfeit the child’s
right to know their family history as an adult.

The oftentimes humiliating, degrading experiences birth mothers were exposed to in the process of giving up their child, resulted in more and more single mothers during the 1970’s and 80’s. Before long, pressure grew for change, especially by adults (adopted as children) seeking medical histories of their birth parents. Coupled with the social acceptance of unmarried mothers, private attorneys were among the first to bring about change from closed to open adoption procedures.

Recognizing that closed adoptions failed far more often than not, social workers and social agencies responsible for the well being of their charges began the slow, gradual process of change within the system. Those agencies that failed to embrace these changes simply facilitated fewer adoptions than others.

Today, while still heavily regulated to protect the rights of both mother and child, a return to the practice of open adoption has become the acceptable norm.

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