Pros And Cons About Adoption

Adoption is a community unto itself. And like other communities, it's constantly evolving to meet the greatest needs of its people to survive. When speaking of the pros and cons about adoption, there is little that fall completely in one category or the other. One person's con may be another's pro. Even people with the same profession can have wildly different takes on the same issue. It's this tension between defining what is good and bad about adoption that allows more and more children find loving families to come home to every day.

Adoption exists to give people a second chance at life, so it's hard to pin down a con that can beat what adoption has done for millions of Americans every year. There are minor cons about adoption, such as the fees, waiting for placement, the number of children abandoned or involuntarily brought to foster care.

While an unplanned pregnancy may have brought a young girl, wide-eyed and unprepared, into the world of motherhood, she is a way for a couple hoping to start a family to do so.

While there are opponents to all kinds of adoption-related issues, gay and lesbian couples are banned in some states' adoption community and embraced in others.

While a prospective single adoptive parent may not be able to adopt an infant domestically, he or she may have an easier time with an international agency. The same goes for other nontraditional adopters.