1. Culture

When adopting a child from a different culture than your own, you are able to learn more about their culture. On social media there are people that I follow that talk about the adoption process. Some of these people have adopted children from other countries. Those that have adopted from another country, learn their child or soon to be child’s culture, and are able to teach their child about the culture. If their child is older, they still learn the culture so that they can do traditions that their child grew up with.

2. Broken Home

A lot of children that are in foster care comes from troubled families. I know a child that came from a situation that no child should be in. This child is now with a good family, and is experiencing new things. Along with that they are able to learn new things. Depending on the situation the child can be adopted by a different family member. Aunt or uncle, a distant family member, or even an older sibling. A lot of times this can be better for the child. An older sibling may have gone through the same thing, and is able to help the younger sibling.

3. Unable to have biological children

Many women have problems with pregnancies for a number of reasons. I know that my mom had trouble with her pregnancy with me because her blood type and my blood type do not match. This only happens when the mother is O type blood. A woman's body (O type blood) wants to reject the baby’s if the blood types do not match. There are many other reasons that do not allow a woman to conceive a child. There are a number of medical reasons, like not having a regular menstrual cycle, or endometriosis. Other times it can be that the man is infertile.

4. Baby vs. Teenager

A lot of people when adopting want to adopt a baby, or toddler. A family that I know had adopted a toddler because they run a daycare. If they were to have adopted a baby, one of the families that go to that daycare, that has a baby, would not be able to go there anymore. A daycare is only allowed a certain number of babies at a time. Besides that a lot of people do not want to adopt a teenager because they see teenagers as harder to raise and are problematic.

5. Money

Depending on the state and other factors, there is adoption tax credit. You can get assistance for adopting a child. This can be a positive or a negative drawback for adoption. This money can legitimately help the family adopting a child. With this money they can buy things the child needs, or can save it to do something big as a family. Some would argue that if you cannot afford a child, you should not adopt a child. This also leads to people adopting to just wanting the money. They do not want anything to do with the child, they just see them as a way to get extra cash.

6. “Fit” Parent

There is no set thing as a fit parent, but the adoption process makes it seem like there is. There is still an importance of what a fit parent is in the adoption process. If there was no “fit” standard, anyone could adopt a child. Certain requirements are needed to be meet, like not having a criminal record, house is up to standards, income in a certain range, and education. The people that are trying to adopt could be the type of people that are only interested in the money. So, they need to go through a process that can rule out the bad from the good.

7. New interests

Having a child, either giving birth or adopting, parents will always learn new things about themselves. New interests are not just for the parents, the child can find new interests too. Children of all ages are continuing to learn about themselves and what interests them. They can get these interests from their parents or from their environment. Most likely the child was not able to try new things and find any interests while in foster care. As they try out new things, parents are also able to experience some of these things for the first time.