Essays on Adopted Children

Introduction

The World Health Organization (n.d) defines substance abuse as the harmful or hazardous uptake of psychoactive chemicals, including illicit drugs and alcohol. According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse (2014), substance abuse refers to the use of legal or illegal drugs inappropriately. This term includes the repeated use of drugs for pleasure, stress alleviation or reality alteration as well as the use of prescription medicines in other ways than prescribed (NIDA, 2014). Substance abuse and addiction can lead to potentially fatal diseases such as lung disease, HIV/AIDS, cardiovascular problems, cancer, and hepatitis (Marsiglia et al., 2014). People who ...

Introduction

World-wide, adoption has become a widely accepted alternative to birthing children. Throughout the United States, approximately 135,000 children are adopted each year (Claridge, 2014, p. 112). In every adoption case, an adoption triad is developed. This adoption triad consists of the adopted parents, the adopted child and the birth parents. This paper attempts to analyze the grief that is experienced throughout the adoption triad, as well as the different counseling models that can be implemented in order to assist these individuals.

Literature Review

March (2014) attempted to find the emotions that birth parents feel when women are contacted by their ...

Introduction

Adoption involves a person taking up of the responsibility of raising a child who is not his/her own. Interracial adoption on the other hand is a situation whereby the adoptive parents originate from different racial backgrounds. This type of adoption has existed since 1945 and is very common in the developed countries especially the United States of America whereby children from Asian countries and Africa are brought in by the adoptive parents. There are various reasons why children can be adopted across the racial divide but this has not been spared from controversies. This kind of adoption has pros and cons that ...