Adoption is one of the beauty of humanity, it also shows one of the cruelty of life. Children born into this world only to be faced with the difficulty of not having parents to protect and raise them. They have had to endure the hardship of life, some even before they got to see the world with their eyes. Looking at things now, I have come to understand the reason the system is strict is because the system needs to make sure they are putting a child under the care of responsible parents. But let’s face it, how many parents are really responsible? In fact, how many people who look responsible are truly responsible? People do things for different reasons, People can easily act responsible just to get what they want. These days, if you are smart enough, it is easy to trick the system into believing that you have good intentions for a child. A lot of people use adopted kids for child / human trafficking or even child labour and these people have a way of making the system bend to their will. They simply know everything to look out for and know how to trick the system into believing they are who they are not.
This is how wicked the world is, this is how much people are ready to go to satisfy their desires and it’s really unfortunate when innocent children become victims of all sorts of abuse. Children who have been facing the cruelty of the world before they even knew what the world is. I would love to adopt at a point in my life, I do hope the process will be smooth for me when that time comes, but I also believe that so long I have a family, and a clear mind, the process should not be too tedious. A lot of the time, the reason why people find it difficult to adopt is either because they do not have a stable family or good family history or sometimes their past may be a big concern for them to be allowed to parent a child and other times, they too might be looking for a particular kind of child. There are a lot of things that make the adoption process very lengthy, and these things to be honest can not be avoided. They are so important that we need to look, relook and review so that the orphanage can trust to a very good degree that the child will be receiving the love and care they never got from their parents due to whatever reason that got them separated.
Adoption shows that indeed every child should be loved and taken care of, some children find this love early in life, some do not find it, but if a child has the fortune to find it, then it will make the world a better place because let’s be honest, the streets are rough and the orphanage home do not have the capacity most of the time to ensure these children receive the very best. Some can only afford the bare minimum, and others can only do as much as they can. I do not think the strict policies should be reviewed for parents, because that is the only way to checkmate if the parents are really responsible and are adopting for the right reasons. I believe these policies should be reviewed, and not target a certain kind of people in any way. I believe everyone should be given a chance to be a parent and for that reason, even if they do not totally meet up to the standards the system has set, there should be some sort of review or amendment for them, maybe an ex convict who has really changed and wants to have children through adoption should be monitored thoroughly and not judged based on their past. So even though the strict policies should remain, it should be reviewed.
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