Innate Love Already Exists

In reviewing the article Adopting With Care, and for Good written by Susan Dominus from the New York Times in April 2010, she uses inductive reasoning to move her audience by first reviewing certain characteristics looked for when medically screening an orphan child and then detailing how technology has advanced this process over the years for Dr. Jane Aronson who is a pediatrician who helps adoptive parents evaluate the mental and physical health of possible adoptees. Her major premise seems to be that many parents have an innate love and sense of belonging with their future adoptive child. She uses supports this by telling the audience that there is a love that develops for the unknown child in the long journey to first make the decision to adopt and then go through the process. This is a long journey that many take, and through this hard and emotional time, their love grows deeper and deeper for their child; any child.

Dominus centers the minor premise around the idea that with information given, although parents still have the tendency to be scared towards the situation and the unknown to an agree, it puts them many steps ahead than if they had no information or advice given at all. There can sometimes still be the unknown. She uses support that, although they screen these orphans and decipher what challenges the adoptive family is capable of managing, there is still the unknown. She has many clients whose friends try to give them support by stating that women who bear their children naturally are also presented with the unknown and are expected to deal with whatever their child is born with. Dominus does indicate that this is true, but international orphans are at a disadvantage with poverty rates and very poor prenatal care.

Dominus concludes with a story about a couple that adopted a young child who seemed to be very deprived and behind schedule developmentally. She evaluates these findings during a routine exam and informs the parents of this, but this information does not seem to phase them as they are enjoying the progress and advancements the child is making in the office while playing with toys and emotionally bonding with the parents. This story is used as an analogy to imply that most adoptive parents, regardless of any delays or setbacks, still have that innate love for their adoptive child that was formed long before they even knew the child.

Works Cited

DOMINUS, SUSAN. "Adopting With Care, and for Good." New York Times 17 Apr. 2010: 13. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Web. 19 May 2010