Biological and Environmental Factors Affecting Adopted Children from Developing Countries

Biological and Environmental Factors Affecting Adopted Children from Developing Countries

Adoption is a process where a person or family takes over the right of raising a child through legal means from the previous guardians. Adoption of children from developing countries to developed countries falls under international adoption, which is in itself adoption across national borders. Usually, adopting kids from developing countries is a laborious process. The potential parents make numerous trips overseas to complete the legal process, which involves a licensed adoption agency as well as many government agencies from both countries.

The bioecological theory by Bronfenbrenner states that human development goes through complex interactions among biopsychosocial human beings and that individual’s objects, symbols and systems within the individual’s proximity. When a child is removed from his previous environment to a new one, his body will have to adapt to fit well in the new adap.............