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 Kristine
Holds the key to her future, is that the key to truth? wongmlk@hotmail.com Shall take ourselves to a level higher. Just because we can. We shall always be happy and do whatever we want so that we would leave this world with no regrets. This is our life to live and we should answer to no one else but ourselves. We owe our lives to no one. To speak about freedom, but not being sure if we can achieve that. But we try. I never mentioned how we should all take risks, but only calculated ones. Never do something that your conscience can't live by, you don't want to face sleepless nights. The pursuit of happiness might not be with anyone else. The pursuit of happiness can be attained by walking the road alone. There are reasons why you remain alone, but many don't understand why you choose to be alone - they can't see why you're perfectly lonely.
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Monday, October 31, 2011
GEK1041 Essay Sucks (Seems like blogger is a good place to type an essay when there's no Word on the com!) In modern society, many "families" have been transformed to "households" in the process of globalization. Neither is the certified marriage of a couple needed nor does the offspring need to be of biological relation. Households are used to replace such situations where..... (living arrangements). Although it may seem as the notion of family has been diluted to an extent, one should note that this is not the case as the notion of a complete family consisting a couple and children is still highly regarded as a necessity. Hence, it is deemed natural that a couple have children to "complete" the family and when this task cannot be fulfilled, they tend to turn to other options and one of them would be adoption. Instead of the notion of family facing dilution, the fundamental structure of a family is in fact, fueling the child adoption scene. Thus, this essay tries to analyse why there is a great shift from local adoptions to inter-country adoptions, despite still having a high demand for local adoptions, inevitably transforming many families into global households. The main reason to people sourcing abroad for adoptions would boil down to the fact that there is a lack of supply of children put up for adoption locally, resulting in demands not met. Local children are sought after because they can be easily pulled off as being biological as they have features and skin colour resembling their foster parents. This is especially prevalent in Asian countries as adoption is considered as a taboo topic. The movement of child adoption has been around and is most widely seen in the 1940s to the 1960s where relatives who are better off, adopt the children of relatives who can no longer support the child. During times of uncertainty and war, adoption served as a form of relief to those who cannot afford to rear a child and they are mostly only local adoptions observed. Although adoption rates were the highest then, the act was mostly kept silent and was considered a touchy issue whenever mentioned. However, during the 1970s to 2000s, adoption which was not done locally and when there are signs that the child may not be biological, it points to the infertility of the woman. A woman's responsibility is seen as to reproduce, thus bringing home a child to foster would tell that the woman is unable to accomplish her duty of being a wife. But as time progresses into a much more modern era, adoption has transformed into a viable solution for infertility. Stereotypes are slowly being erased and also the child is better accepted and not seen as a social stigma. The acceptance of society to rearing a non-biological child has improved, supporting more couples to focus on adopting a child as long as he or she is suitable, instead of being overly concerned about the need to find a local child who would not blow the cover for being non-biologically related. In addition, the capability of a family to adopt a child sets its social status and class. It is relatively comparable to Manuel Castells' metaphor of "Networks" - Either you are entirely "in" the flow of it or entirely "out" of it. It may not have links to technology but a divide is distinct. A clear line is drawn between whether you can afford to adopt a child or you cannot afford to raise another member of the family. In adoption, a hierarchy is formed whereby only the rich or middle-class can afford it as a child essentially requires daily necessities and education, which can chalk up to a quite a huge sum of expenses. Unsurprisingly, globalization enhances such a phenomenon by widening the income gap of the rich and the poor. Despite so, developed countries are least affected within the country itself as they are still seeing a higher average of incomes and better standards of living of a large portion of citizens. Thus, showing that the gaps in income are more pronounced in the comparison of economically developed and less economically developed countries. With the hierarchy which was earlier mentioned, it is a driving force for financially capable couples to source for children from rural and less developed countries, rather than bringing home a local child which is already in a considerably high standard of living. Usually, the dire conditions these third world country children are living in, prompt couples to "save" and adopt them instead. Another contributing factor to this shift would be about the involvement the country's government and the policies they have put in place to facilitate the child adoption processes. A normal adoption process can take up to at least one year to three years. Not only does relevant authorities continually do checks on the foster parents' history, welfare groups also visit them frequently to assess and understand the family situation. Furthermore, these precautions are to minimize the possibilities of syndicates in child trafficking which are proliferating in less economically developed countries. These processes take up a lot of time and it proves disadvantageous to the children's chances of being adopted. Babies are most sought after and as the child ages, they are less likely to be adopted as they take longer time to adapt and are more prone to have psychological trauma during their growth. Despite local adoptions being preferred over inter-country ones, the limited number of children being put up for adoption means that babies are rare. In order to find a child that is of a desired age, these foster parents are more likely to come across one when they look overseas. Friday, October 14, 2011
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