Comments on: Adoption Disruptions/Dissolutions Increase

By: Mirah

Mirah — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 03:38:56 +0000

It’s “better” for the child than abusing or killing them, yes.

Better still would be to prevent these awful situations by stopping all profiteering in adoption and ensuring that those who adopt are properly prepared.

By: Marcie

Marcie — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 03:13:03 +0000

Yes…and I am seeing that the under the table disruptions more often now and sometimes it is best for children. In fact, I have a friend who did this. I was very upset with the 20/20 special last week that glorified disruptions as an appropriate thing to do when adoptions did not “fit”. How can parents not try to make things work? And how can agencies not educate parents more on how it is really going to be when children come home?

Our agency did okay in that area and did help us when we needed it…I will give them credit for that. They found us a therapist and guided us through. But, even so…it is rough.

By: Mirah

Mirah — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 02:10:11 +0000

Thanks and my apologies for my excessive typos!

The most “recent” of these statistics are dated and do not take into account the large number of international adoptions that are falling apart, the majority of take place outside the “system” and thus undoubtedly go unreported.

By: peggy thomas

peggy thomas — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 04:24:57 +0000

I have 6 adopted kids from EE who I have adopted threw disruption .I chose open adoption with all thier first american families. The kids are doing well and I’m so greatful that they are in my life. I’ts alot of work and very challenging. I wish more could be done to bring down the % of disruption .Since I’m full now I’m trying to to learn all can about how to help families who are disrupting resources ect.

By: Mirah Riben

Mirah Riben — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 04:11:49 +0000

Disruption is when an adoption process that ends after the child is placed in an adoptive home and before the adoption is legally finalized.

Dissolution is when an adoption ends after it is legally finalized.

By: Marcie

Marcie — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 03:14:23 +0000

I think I was using disruption in general terms (my apologies) but older children can be disrupted early before adoptions are finalized.

Can you explain termination?

By: Mirah Riben

Mirah Riben — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 03:05:22 +0000

I am author of “shedding light on…The Dark Side of Adoption” (1988) and “The Stork Market: America’s Multi-Billion Dollar Unregulated Adoption Industry” (2007).

First you need to understand the difference between adoption termination, disruption, dissolution.

The correct statistic for adoption disruptions is 10-25%. Source: http://www.childwelfare.gov/pubs/s_disrup.cfm

By: Marcie

Marcie — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 02:40:37 +0000

Mirah, I have corrected the link. I got it from the linked article but it looks as if the original link that the article quotes is no longer there.

Here is another source (http://statistics.adoption.com/information/statistics-disruption-dissolution.html) on the same information that states that the statistic originally comes from here (Stolley, K.S. (1993). Statistics on adoption in the United States. The Future of Children: Adoption, 3(1), 26-42.) which proves that the stat is quite outdated to be used in such an article.

Unfortunately, as you probably find, there are few statistics on disruptions and dissolutions.

Thanks for letting me know the link was incorrect. I really appreciate it.

By: Mirah Riben

Mirah Riben — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 01:42:24 +0000

Could you pleas provide a working link for the 3- 53 persent ststistic you quote??