The Child Who Wait

THE CHILD WHO WAIT
The essay “The Child Who Wait” is written by Marsha Traugot. In this essay, she has suggested reasons for a new trend in adoption. For this she draws from specific research of history. The children who do not have parents need to be adopted by others families. This essay describes what was happening to children in the United States who do not have parents.
In the past, only white and healthy children could be adopted in the United States. No one wanted to look after the handicapped children and the children who have emotional problem. Now many people are unhappy to adopt such children. Tammy, a five and a half years old black child who is suffering from fatal Alcoholic syndrome has been legally free for adoption. White families began to adopt such black children. Now a wider variety of families can open their homes to children who in the past would have been labeled in-adaptable. In the past, children were adopted by only healthy, rich families. Minority and mixed racial children were virtually ignored. So, the children waited.
There are several reasons behind the change in the last two decayed. One important reason for the change in that different type of families wants to adopt the children. For e.g. an unmarried man might adopt a badly behaved fifteen years old boy and a religious people might adopt handicapped children.
Young girls who got pregnant use to give their children for adoption but now they are either having abortion or looking after the children themselves. Because of the civil right movement even the black children have been equally respected. The black civil right movement changed the attitude of people to the black children. There are no healthy children waiting to be adopted. Because of women’s movement together with birth control, legalized abortion, and changing attitude towards sexual behavior and marriage very few healthy children were available for adoption. Therefore, due to the scarcity of healthy children, people turn their attention to other babies.
Hence, the collective effort of different movement in order to maintain justice in the society especially on the case of adaptation is possible.