Cause and Effect

Globally, there are many diseases and mental disabilities among the human culture. These rates continue to climb as more and more children are brought into the world each day. Poverty and other economic turmoils have a huge impact on men and women being able to keep their children, or just the idea of giving them a better life. A problem that is being faced with the increase of diseases and psychological disorders in infants resides in international adoption. There are cases that seem to become more frequent as time goes by where adoption agencies/orphanages do not provide all information known about an orphan in their facility because of disease or disorders. They fear, and it is a justified reaction in many cases, that when prospective adopting parents find out any such information, they immediately desire to look at a different child.

This creates the inability for orphanages and adoption agencies to get certain children adopted from their facility. Not only does the child grow older which often creates more problems, but they also require more time and attention, which in result costs more money. So when an agency or orphanage decides not to disclose this information in order to get the child into a home, the parent is then presented with unknown illnesses or disorders that they are unaware of how to treat. This is becoming a problem because there are many adoptive parents who both physically and emotionally cannot take care of a child with a disability or disorder. Therefore, there are many family tearing-aparts and tragedies resulting from their inability to care for the symptoms. The problem stems from the fact that often times, the placement could have been prevented, or the family could have been better prepared to care for the child.