A Parent’s Guide to Adoption
Robert S. Lasnik
1979
I’ve never adopted a child, but I guarantee that this book is useless to anyone who might want to.
There is one small section about “homosexuals as adoptive parents” where the bottom line is basically “…it is probable that in the near future courts will face the issue of whether homosexuals may adopt.” It goes on to say that “Despite the absence of laws, agency policies and traditional court attitudes make the likelihood of an avowed homosexual being approved as an adoptive parent extremely slim.” Times have changed, my friend!
Furthermore, because this book was written in 1979, it talks about all the “recent” adoptions of Korean and Vietnamese children, saying, “It is too soon to assess the success of the recent Vietnamese adoptions, but the Korean placements in the 1950’s worked out extremely well for the children and their new families.” Why, you ask? Well, because “Most went to white, middle-class Protestant families in rural areas or small cities.” Apparently, “Studies have shown that Korean children shed their old culture and grasped their new American identities.” This is a good thing? Hmmm…
8 responses so far ↓
Chuck // June 15, 2009 at 8:03 am |
Since 1979 much has changed in our knowledge of child development, a critical understanding for any planning to become a adoptive parents.
Time for this dated content to disappear.
Steph // June 15, 2009 at 4:23 pm |
You will be assimilated….
Johanna // June 16, 2009 at 5:04 pm |
and those Korean adoptees of the 1950s could have kids of their own who are adopting today! and the Vietnamese adoptees of the 1970s could be adopting their own kids now. think laws might have changed?
gothougeekly // June 18, 2009 at 6:54 pm |
@ Steph … ROFL
ColoradoDan // June 22, 2009 at 5:56 pm |
And many of those Korean adoptees went on to become angry anti- or adoption reform advocates
Indignant // August 1, 2009 at 11:58 pm |
Then, those Korean adoptees should return to their homeland immediately. Why shouldn’t they have assimilated into American society? Would they prefer living in Korean ghettoes? In Korea, if one is an orphan, one is automatically precluded from getting into any prominent college and is actively stigmatized as rootless. This, in turn, precludes Korean orphans from obtaining much more than menial or substandard employment. I think these Korean adoptee ingrates should begin counting their blessings more, and bitching less.
Peregrina // August 16, 2009 at 2:09 pm |
Whoa, Indignant. Korean stigmatism of orphans (or anyone perceived as having flawed bloodlines) should have nothing to do with Americans working to improve our adoption system. And yes, I count my foreign-born adopted friends as Americans, because they are.
If my mother (born in the U.S. to native-born Americans and adopted in the U.S. by native-born Americans) wanted to be an adoption-reform advocate, where would you ship her back to?
To put this in a library context: if Library A has ineffective policies and a truly lousy collection, why should that preclude Library B from actively working to improve its own policies and collection?
G // September 5, 2009 at 11:45 pm |
Some states still don’t allow a homosexual to adopt, ridiculously enough.