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common. Not that they had to, but for me, I just wanted them to have the same
cultural experience that they could share together. For the second adoption I was
choosing between India or Ethiopia and I said India and then I would come back
and do Ethiopia. But time went on…and I think I’m done adopting. I’ll help
other people adopt from Ethiopia.
How long does the process take for adoptions from India?
Well now, it’s a very difficult country from which to adopt. They prefer that
Indian parents adopt their children. It’s very difficult for other nationalities to get
children out of India. Also, the government is not really for international
adoption so very few Indian children are adopted out of the country and it’s a long
process. I know when I was adopting back in 1994, they were still using adoption
laws from around 1860-something or 1870-something. But there are very few
Indian adoptions now at all.
Is that something that is changing for international adoption overall? Quite a few
countries have closed their doors to overseas adoptions.
It is changing – a lot.
In your experience, what are some of the reasons adoptive parents choose to adopt
overseas as opposed to domestically?
I think a lot of families what to help an orphan. They want to help someone who
may not have a better life otherwise or may not even survive. For me, I felt called
to do that but also as I read about the plight of others in other countries…I know
there’s a lot of need in our country as well but there are systems in place where
these children can survive and find homes. They may be outside of the biological
home but there’s foster care, there’s a welfare system, there are systems set up in
our country. But in other countries these children just die. They don’t live.
There’s no system, there’s no infrastructure set in place so that’s one reason that
families chose international adoption.
Object Description
| Title | Babies without borders: exploring perceptions of international adoption |
| Author | Roberts, Nicole Marie |
| Author email | n.roberts@ymail.com; simplynicolemarie@yahoo.com |
| Degree | Master of Arts |
| Document type | Thesis |
| Degree program | Strategic Public Relations |
| School | Annenberg School for Communication |
| Date defended/completed | 2011-03-31 |
| Date submitted | 2011 |
| Restricted until | Unrestricted |
| Date published | 2011-05-03 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Floto, Jennifer D. |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Lynch, Brenda Thorson, Kjerstin |
| Abstract | International adoption is an incredibly complex and hotly debated issue. In an effort to understand the roots of the system, the author delves deep into the history of adoption and the transition to international adoption in the United States while examining the perceptions of the system today.; Using public relations techniques, the author offers communication-based recommendations that will help mitigate any stigma so that international adoptions continue without the negative undertones that are often associated with the idea of adopting from another country. |
| Keyword | adoption; international adoption |
| Geographic subject (country) | USA; Greece; Korea; Vietnam; Guatemala; Romania; USSR; China |
| Coverage date | 1939/2009 |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Provenance | Electronically uploaded by the author |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m3877 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Rights | Roberts, Nicole Marie |
| Repository name | Libraries, University of Southern California |
| Repository address | Los Angeles, California |
| Repository email | cisadmin@lib.usc.edu |
| Filename | etd-Roberts-4524 |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume26/etd-Roberts-4524.pdf |
Description
| Title | Page 92 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Repository email | cisadmin@lib.usc.edu |
| Full text | 80 common. Not that they had to, but for me, I just wanted them to have the same cultural experience that they could share together. For the second adoption I was choosing between India or Ethiopia and I said India and then I would come back and do Ethiopia. But time went on…and I think I’m done adopting. I’ll help other people adopt from Ethiopia. How long does the process take for adoptions from India? Well now, it’s a very difficult country from which to adopt. They prefer that Indian parents adopt their children. It’s very difficult for other nationalities to get children out of India. Also, the government is not really for international adoption so very few Indian children are adopted out of the country and it’s a long process. I know when I was adopting back in 1994, they were still using adoption laws from around 1860-something or 1870-something. But there are very few Indian adoptions now at all. Is that something that is changing for international adoption overall? Quite a few countries have closed their doors to overseas adoptions. It is changing – a lot. In your experience, what are some of the reasons adoptive parents choose to adopt overseas as opposed to domestically? I think a lot of families what to help an orphan. They want to help someone who may not have a better life otherwise or may not even survive. For me, I felt called to do that but also as I read about the plight of others in other countries…I know there’s a lot of need in our country as well but there are systems in place where these children can survive and find homes. They may be outside of the biological home but there’s foster care, there’s a welfare system, there are systems set up in our country. But in other countries these children just die. They don’t live. There’s no system, there’s no infrastructure set in place so that’s one reason that families chose international adoption. |
