Adoption in England’s Law

Abstract

All children are entitled to grow up and rear as a member of an affectionate family. The family can help them to be fostered during childhood and thereafter. “Any child needs to be fostered in a family full of the affection and under the support of guardians, to feel security and to be settled there”. This means that some adults are responsible of him/her (have commitment towards him/her) for long-term and they will support his/her growth and development. There is a family, which guides him/her from childhood through adulthood. According to Hendrich (1997), adoption can give the children who are not able to live with their parents, an opportunity to live in an affectionate, permanent and stable family and to be a part and a member of it” “In England, the most popular and conventional existing reason for which the children are adopted in a family is the misbehavior and incorrect treatment by the original parents. For adoption, children fall into three groups: the deserted children or infants (14%), the children whose parents have requested for adoption under complex conditions (24 %) and those children who required social services and the courts should issue an order for adoption (62%).”  Children should perfectly be cared and protected by their parents.  If the parents are not able to support the children enough and/or the parents cannot resolve the produced problems and difficulties, and/or they cannot contribute and involve in the losses which are generated for the child (such as abuse in alcoholic drinking’s and narcotic addiction), the court can terminate their parental rights. In this case, the child can be adopted.