Biological Rights

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Biological Rights

What is a parent? A parent is someone who will love and nurture a child, and help mold it into the best that child can be. At least that is what society would like to believe. If someone adopts a child, does that make him or her any less of a parent? Is it not possible that they will love that child more then its biological parent could? Unfortunately, once adoption is final some biological parents try to fight for their child back. This can only bring confusion into the child’s life period. Tearing a child away from the parents it knows, is a cruel, unhealthy and immoral act.
Every state has their own set of laws concerning adoption. The one part that each state varies the most is the “Waiting Period”. The “Waiting Period” begins when both sets of parents sign papers signifying the beginning of the adoption. “Typically, the waiting period ends six months after the child is placed in the home. The temporary decree is replaced by a final one. The most important feature of this decree is that it is final. The biological parents now have no legal relationship to the child.”{Bolles 94} Some biological parents, however, just do not understand that. They fight to get their child back, that they so willingly gave up. They don’t care about the feelings of the child, only their personal needs that they feel the need to satisfy. “Children are compared to property rather then a person”.{Bolles 36} These children, who live with the adoptive parents, who are now in a safe, sound home, should not have to be in a tense atmosphere.
Once a child is nurtured for by a pair of parents, the parents which care for the child, a family is set. “Nature is not nearly as important as nurture for who does the child love?”{Ruskai 45} The parents that love them in return and give them happiness or the parents that made them, but then ran away cowardly? It is not fair for the child to be born into this world already facing problems. The child can grow up to have severe

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