Argument #4: Opportunities and Parents - Counterargument/Refute: America and Orphans
Adults who want children but are not able to have them are given a chance at parenthood through international adoption. Parents who cannot have children tend to want newborn babies as opposed to older children. Raising a child from birth gives them the full parenthood experience. The issue with this is that there are more prospective parents than there are newborns needing adoption in the United States. Here many opposers of international adoption would probably object that there are plenty of orphans in America in need of a home. Though I concede that the number of orphans in America is probably as high as the number of looking parents, I still insist that international adoption is a good route due to the fact that a lot of the orphans this is referring to are older and not what the parents are looking for. The amount of orphans that are over five years old in the United States is 60 percent (Interlandi par. 11). That leaves only 40 percent of America’s orphans as the ideal age for adoption. According to the article“International Adoption,” “... the number of prospective parents who are approved to adopt is larger than the number of available children… families in this situation choose to adopt from a foreign country where, because of poverty, large numbers of children are in need” (par. 4). Due to the lack of younger orphans in America, adoptive parents turn to international adoption to get their chance at raising a child.