Adoption is a complicated process which impacts children’s psychological condition. Even though there are such different emotional issues that are associated with rejection, losses and identity crisis, adoption is one of the best gestures of human beings. First of all, children who are raised in families get more love and contact. Such children have higher self-esteem and they are more open in case parents are open with them and express a desire to remain in contact with adopted children (Grotevant, Rueter, Von Korff, & Gonzalez, 2011). Adoption provides children with stability, loving and caring family, and with security which cannot be offered by the establishment where such children are brought up in case they are not adopted (Brodzinsky, 2011).
Those children who are brought up in shelters get less care and attention as there are a lot of children who need to be looked at. Adoption allows children to feel their uniqueness, to understand that they are important for this concrete person because they need them, not because they are to care for them. It should be mentioned that adoption positively impact parents as well. In most cases, parents dare for adoption after long and painful tries to have their own children. Thus, when people adopt babies and they can take care of them, they feel healing and hope that they have an opportunity to be parents. It is really important for the family to fell comfort as when parents are satisfied with adoption, adopted children fell this positive effect and they are comforted on the unconscious level (Daniluk, 2003).
Reference List
Brodzinsky, D. M. (2011). Children’s understanding of adoption: Developmental and clinical implications. Professional Psychology: Research and Practice, 42(2), 200-207.
Daniluk, J. (2003). Themes of Hope and Healing: Infertile Couples’ Experiences of Adoption. Journal of Counseling & Development, 81(4), 389.
Grotevant, H., Rueter, M., Von Korff, L., & Gonzalez, C. (2011). Post-adoption contact, adoption communicative openness, and satisfaction with contact as predictors of externalizing behavior in adolescence and emerging adulthood. Journal of Child Psychology And Psychiatry, And Allied Disciplines, 52(5), 529-536.