Adoption: Interview with Dr. David Kirschner

An interview with Dr. David Kirschner regarding adoption:

David Kirschner, PH.D, is a famous psychologist and psychoanalyst he does private practice in Woodbury Long Island and Merrick, N.Y.

Does the process of adoption is regulated by the state and the federal or national agencies?

The process of adoption in most part is regulated by the state laws only. The adoptive families have to satisfy the state laws by showing where the child has actually born.

What is the eligibility for adopting a child or who is considered to be eligible for adoption?

Everyone is eligible as far as adoption is considered, but the parents who are younger that twenty five years and those who are above the age of forty five years have to wait for long. That is just because the agencies ask them for lot of formalities. Each and every parent who wants to adopt has to go for the inspection or in home study before they adopt any child. This inspection is made to find out the whether the parents can take care of child or not.

The expenses in the process of adoption or is adoption expensive?

In actual the estimates vary every year, but the most domestic adoption cost is dollar fifteen thousand to dollar twenty thousand (before tax and credits). And the cost of international adoption varies from dollar fifteen thousand to dollar thirty five thousand.

What is meant by the term open adoption and what pros and cons this type of adoption has?

Unluckily there is very little data or research data is available on the open adoption process which can tell whether it is good or not. It also has the information about the child biological parents which few people think can be worse for the child’s future. This process of open adoption is still very rare there is a great quarrel between the people who support and who opposes the open adoption. Or one can say there is a great positives verses negative fight.

On the positive or pro side the process of open adoption avoids the chances of controversies and lies, and thus it make the young children and teens aware about their past. And on the negative or the con side the regular contact with the birth mother or biological mother can lead to lot of confusion and depression to the child. Thus child may spoil his or her future.

The child after few years may start thinking that, "if my birth mother gave me away then what role is she playing over here? Would she take me with herself?" He or she may turn out to be bad by becoming a skilled manipulator – by making strategies and playing one set of parents off the other.

What is meant by the tern closed adoption?

The simple meaning of closed adoption is that there is no interaction between the child’s biological mother and the parents who adopt him after all the adoption processes are over.