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while other people just don’t. Like I mentioned, we have the systems set in place
and other countries don’t. And really, we are one. I don’t know if everyone feels
that way. Some people think, “We are America, there’s China, India…” But we
really are one and I think we are all people who need help and aid to serve the
same purposes in life as everyone else. We just reach across the waters and help
wherever we can. And a lot of families not only adopt in other countries, they
adopt from here as well or they give to other charities here.
As far as celebrity culture is concerned, do you believe that the high-profile
adoptions of people like Angelina Jolie and Madonna has had an effect on overall
interest in international adoption?
I do. Most certainly for Ethiopia because it is now one of the premiere countries
that people are adopting from. It wasn’t like that before. Also, a lot of countries
have closed their doors to adoption, as you mentioned before, or they’ve put very
strict requirements in place so that families can’t adopt because they don’t meet
all of those requirements. And a lot of countries just aren’t pro-adoption. Even
some that allow their children to be adopted internationally, are not necessarily
pro-adoption, they just allow it to happen. So I think that as countries began to
close down and get more restrictive, and Angelina Jolie and Madonna came out,
and they saw another option. Families saw another option that they may not have
considered before. China was really the big adopting country. More children
came out of China, for years, more than any other country. But when China
started to close their doors to certain families and tried to promote domestic
adoption within their country, families started looking for another way. So when
Angelina and Madonna came out, families began to consider Africa. So I think it
was very impactful.
A large number of international adoptions are interracial or transracial. Is
there some type of training that helps parents prepare for how to deal with that?
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 94 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Repository email | cisadmin@lib.usc.edu |
| Full text | 82 while other people just don’t. Like I mentioned, we have the systems set in place and other countries don’t. And really, we are one. I don’t know if everyone feels that way. Some people think, “We are America, there’s China, India…” But we really are one and I think we are all people who need help and aid to serve the same purposes in life as everyone else. We just reach across the waters and help wherever we can. And a lot of families not only adopt in other countries, they adopt from here as well or they give to other charities here. As far as celebrity culture is concerned, do you believe that the high-profile adoptions of people like Angelina Jolie and Madonna has had an effect on overall interest in international adoption? I do. Most certainly for Ethiopia because it is now one of the premiere countries that people are adopting from. It wasn’t like that before. Also, a lot of countries have closed their doors to adoption, as you mentioned before, or they’ve put very strict requirements in place so that families can’t adopt because they don’t meet all of those requirements. And a lot of countries just aren’t pro-adoption. Even some that allow their children to be adopted internationally, are not necessarily pro-adoption, they just allow it to happen. So I think that as countries began to close down and get more restrictive, and Angelina Jolie and Madonna came out, and they saw another option. Families saw another option that they may not have considered before. China was really the big adopting country. More children came out of China, for years, more than any other country. But when China started to close their doors to certain families and tried to promote domestic adoption within their country, families started looking for another way. So when Angelina and Madonna came out, families began to consider Africa. So I think it was very impactful. A large number of international adoptions are interracial or transracial. Is there some type of training that helps parents prepare for how to deal with that? |
