Adoption

Adoption can mean a lot for many people. Especially for this man named Christopher Ategeka. He was one of the very few people who had the chance of getting adopted. He started off his story in Uganda. He slept with his passport because he was scared someone would talk it or steal it from him. He explains how he first arrived in the United States and not knowing anything. The people who he lived with showed him what a microwave was, or an oven was or how to use many different things. They showed him loved, how they care for him, how they made him feel welcome. He then explains that it gets more difficult when the family has kids of their own and sometimes, they get jealous because they were trying to teach Christopher new things and to learn English. However, they got over themselves and started to help him learn more. In the United States people hear everything about orphanage and kids getting moved around because they were not being loved or they could not get the love/help they needed. It is a tough outcome and some kids are not as lucky as others. Kids do have their ways however; they do act a certain type of way. They do things that they were not supposed to do. Sometimes it can be the opposite way for them such as, the kid could have bad people that adopted them. For example, they could not treat you right, they could hit the kid or not feed them or even not notice them at all. Family does not have to be blood related to be yours. In the book they explained that family is, “A family is a group of two or more people who are related by blood, marriage, adoption, or a mutual commitment and who care for one another” (Social Problems, 2016). This quotation I do not agree with because it states that a family is two or more people who are related by blood which it should not matter because if you love someone and care for someone no matter what age, then they are family. Family should not depend on one thing. There are multiple ways for someone to be included into the family. Family is family no matter what.  

Social problems: Continuity and change. (2016). Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Libraries Publishing. Retrieved from https://open.lib.umn.edu/socialproblems/. CC BY NC SA 4.0 license.

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