Adoption (Conversation Class)

• What is adoption?
• Do you know anyone who was adopted as a child?
• Do you know anyone who has adopted a child?
• What are some of the reasons people choose to adopt?
• What is the difference between domestic and international adoption?
• What are the views of adoption in your country?
• How would someone interested in adopting a child go about doing so?
• Where do children available for adoption come from?
• What happens to children that are not adopted?
• How do you go about adopting a child?
• Would you want to adopt a boy or a girl? Why?
• Do you think brothers and sisters should be separated in adoptions?
• Are adoptions common in your country?
• What are some organizations that help with adoptions?
• Should you tell the child that he or she was adopted? If so at what age? Or when?
• Should adopted children have the right to know their biological parents?
• Should families with birth children also adopt?
• Is the real parent the birth parent or the adoptive parent?
• Should adoptions be between children and families of the same race and or culture?
• How or should the adoptive parents maintain the adopted child's cultural identify?
• In your country are the legal rights of an adoptive child different from that of a birth child?
• What are the legal consequences of adopting a child from a different race or country?
• Why don't more people adopt a child?
• What makes a family, genetics or environment?
• Do you support an open adoption policy where the birth parents can choose to be involved in the child's life?
• Do you believe there is discrimination within the adoption organizations?
• Do you think a person should be able to adopt a child of a different race?
• Should a gay or lesbian couple be allowed to adopt a child?
• Should there be an age restriction for the adoptive parents?
• Should a single man or woman be able to adopt a child?
• If you were to find out that you were adopted and not really from the country where you are a citizen, which nationality would you hope would be your true mother country? Why?
• When is the right time for a child to be told that he/she was adopted?
• Do you think it is preferable to adopt or to use artificial reproduction technology?
• Would you agree to an open adoption or closed adoption? Why?
• What is an open adoption?
• Would you want to find your birth family? Why or why not?