Blog post 1

I have chosen to look at the community for people and parents adopting children through Africa. I chose this because it has always took an interest to me since I was in middle school, having met a couple of children that where adopted from Africa. I think that this is a useful community to study because some people dont understand how adoption works or why parents adopt in the first place. Besides from wanting to find out more information on the adoption side of the topic, I also wanted to look at how it effects the parent(s) adopting, what emotional problems they run into, how do they determine what child to adopt, and why they chose to adopt from Africa in the first place. I looked at a couple of websites that where related to my topic. One was community.adoption.com which was about adoption, was only through the united states. It had many recourses all through the websites to help with many things, such as finding an attorney, registries and forums. On the right of the website, There where links to blogs, parent profiles, and adoption photolisting. In the middle where community dissusions that involved information about the website. You could also find links to chatroom with other adoptive parents or those looking to adopt, as well as photo albums, stories, events, and poetry. 224...... The other website that I had found was one called africanangels.org. This was a non-profit organization that assisted to help with adoption and provide much needed care to the children for school, health, and water/food. This website was very easy to navigate with up front information that many people ask about and need to know. They gave a couple of stories on a few "African Angles" that touch me very much. They also explained that they dont "color match" the orpans to the parents. They beleive that there is no difference in adopting africans to americans, because everyone needs to look at the childs culture anyway, and many African Americans where not raised in Africa, and needs to know and learn just as much, They also believe that if the parent or parents is a strong, stable family with much to offer the child, then there should be no reason that the children should have to wait to find a family of there own race. Altogether, I found these websites very positive and needed for those parent who have adopted or looking to adopt the support that is greatly needed between them to understand the hardships of international adoption and the positives.
I would like to find out how agencies determine if you are a good canidate or couple for adopting and why. I still have a lot of work to do such as fing information about the fees and money that many put into in order to have a successful adoption. I would like to read some blogs or forums between others to see the type of environment that is set forth. I am excited to find out what I find.