Friday, January 21, 2011

Real Happy Endings - adoption myths and distortions in the media


Exploring the decision to adopt a child as a baby through national or international adoption or to adopt a child from the child welfare and foster care, which is understandable system singles adoptive couples and prospective wonder about the possible outcomes of the impact of the adoption of children. Almost everyone has heard second or even third-hand an adoption with a painful or horrible end to the child and family history. Media grabs in these rare cases and blatantly focuses on pain and anguish of everyone involved.

Finally reaching the decision to welcome a child into their home to love and care, adoptive parents have heard countless stories of friends and family of things that can and gone terribly wrong with other children adopted precautionary. Stories of the mainstream media often painted a picture of children adopted in contradiction with his adoptive family, even bitter or emotionally disturbed anti-social addicts.Less shocking, journalistic and much more frequent interest although most stories of adoption that will have real life happy endings for the child and the padres.En reality, the majority of prospective adoptive parents can safely, suppose your most likely adopted child is mature in a normal psychologically healthy adult and go to marriage, pose biological & and/or adopted children and lead a happy productive.

In "Growing Up adopted," a study released in 1994 and often quoted by adoption professionals and advocates, results indicated strongly that most adolescents adopted in their study were firmly connected to their adoptive families and psychologically previous saludable.Investigaciones on adoption systematically combined all young adopted as infants with young people who had survived negligent and abusive, situations often for years before. Furthermore, transferred over several home placements adoptive to be adopted on a permanent home has a huge impact on the emotional well-being of children and interpersonal relationships that do not are accounted as a variable.

Researchers did not make a distinction between children of the difficulties that may have been related to adoption versus non-adoption-related difficulties. Recent research findings remain encouraging and challenge, the results of previous studies on the adoption, which indicated adopted persons had a higher rate of emotional problems and conduct that people did not approve. More useful and valuable for prospective adoptive parents research recognizes the variations between the different situations and a history of adopted children.

In recent times, adoption advocates have also noted a negative bias of the major media against approval believe grossly distorts reality of adoption and fuels many false myths. Dr. George Gerbner, a researcher at the Annenberg School of communications at the University of Pennsylvania, found evidence in 1988 with a negative bias against children adopted in many TV shows and movies. Apparently found many very familiar and popular programs often regularly represented children adopted as a "problem" - addicted to drugs, victims, representing and so on until now taken over children children as Hardy, productive, and hard work.Unfortunately, many people continue to gather his thoughts and impressions on adoption and adoptive families of those shows and news.

Reality is adopted more people are not more psychopath, nor more violent, are people not approved.When we talk about millions of people were approved, who are those babies who are elderly, it is not practical to generalize to any valid conclusion on the future of children adopted by loving families and affection.Like with people of not approved most of the world, some children are very talented or bright and some are less capable, and have more factors are pre-disposing to possible dificultades.La most adopted persons fall within the normal range.

Much misinformation and fears that people have with regard to adoption - adopted children will not flourish, adopted families are not satisfied - generally can research linked to the irrational or simplification not compatible. more adoption is definitely not that an a standard size fit entire solution for every family in every situation. However, millions of singles, families and couples have used approval to produce happy families, prosperous and solidaria.Por another part, at any time in history there have been more resources and support available for prospective adoptive parents for information useful and necessary to prepare them for the challenges and joys and adoption parenting will bring to their lives.








Martha Osborne is an advocate for the adoption, adoptive mother and the adoptado.Ella is also the editor of the publication online of adoption, RainbowKids.com, the main resource online for adoption of waiting children.http://www.rainbowkids.com


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