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agnes77 -> Позитивен говор при посвојување (17.6.2010 18:37:27)
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Adoption - Definition
Adoption is the legal act of permanently placing a child with a parent or parents other than the birth parents. Adoption usually results in the severing of the parental responsibilities and rights of the biological parents and the placing of those responsibilities and rights onto the adoptive parents. After the finalization of an adoption, there is no legal difference between biological and adopted children.
Different jurisdictions have varying laws on adoption and post-adoption. Some practise closed adoption, preventing further contact between the adopted person and the biological parents, while others have varying degrees of open adoption, which may allow such contact.
Adoptism is a prejudice against adoption defined by several beliefs:
The belief that adoption is not a legitimate way to build a family
The belief that birthing children is always preferable to adopting
The belief that adoptees are defined throughout their lives by the fact of their adoption
The belief that making an adoption plan is never a preferable option for birth mothers who are unable or choose not to raise their children
Positive adoption language
In most cultures, adoptive families face adoptism. To combat adoptism, adoptive families encourage positive adoption language.
Non-preferred: your own child
Preferred: birth child
Reason for preference: Saying a birth child is your own child or one of your own children implies that an adopted child is not.
Non-preferred: child is adopted
Preferred: child was adopted
Reason for preference: Some adoptees believe that their adoption is not their identity, but is an event that happened to them. ("Adopted" becomes a participle rather than an adjective.) Others contend that "is adopted" makes adoption sound like a disability to be overcome.
Non-preferred: real mother/father/parent
Preferred: birth mother/father/parent or biological mother/father/parent
Reason for preference: The use of the term "real" implies that the adoptive family is artificial, and is not as descriptive.
Non-preferred: your adopted child
Preferred: your child
Reason for preference: The use of the adjective ''adopted'' signals that the relationship is qualitatively different from that of parents to birth children.
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