y seem like a large number of adoptive families but there are still over 400,000 kids left in foster care or in shelters. With this in mind it seems like Americans should be desperate to place the homeless kids in a family. But through trial and error it has become known that only certain families should be allowed to adopt and in some cases kids are better off left in foster care. “In 1917 Minnesota was the first state to require an agency or state welfare department to make written recommendations to court after investigation” (Harnack 12). This will ensure families giving their child up for adoption that they aren’t giving their kid to just anyone willing to adopt. People who seem to be fit to adopt also have to be able to afford adoption. “For private adoption agency’s there is a fee of about $7,500, with costs ranging from a low $900-$1,500 for public agencies to as high as $12,000 for adoptions from individuals or private agencies” (McKelvey 52). Many parents take risks and allow their kids to be open for adoption to anyone the laws deem appropriate. But approximately 75% of adoptions were the kind where parents give guardianship to another family member. Although the costs do seem outrageous, the reasons behind a parent’s decision to give kids up for adoption are pretty simple. Some pressures to give a baby up for adoption include: unmarried, the need to finish school, financial problems, or the feeling of not being able to be a proper parent (Groze 44). Sometimes young girls are forced to give the baby up for adoption by their family who make decisions for them until they are eighteen. It would be hard to tell whether one made the right decision by choosing to give her kid up for adoption until years after the process took place, and even then one couldn’t truly compare both families, adoptive vs. biological. Although many parents realize giving their kid up for adoption is ...
