Abstract
It has been observed that increasing the rate of adoption dissolution compromises children's rights. This study set out to investigate adoption dissolution including its causal factors and risk factors. It also set out to identify coping strategies to help avoid the situation leading to adoption dissolution. The study adopted qualitative and quantitative methodology to collect and analyze data. The research methods included a questionnaire survey, focus group discussions and interviewing. 44 questionnaires of adoption dissolution were collected and 44 interviews and some focus group discussions were conducted. The findings revealed a range of risk factors of adoption dissolution including adoptee characteristics (e.g. older age, emotional and behavioral disorder, sibling separation , special needs.); adopter family characteristics (e.g. their elders forcing them to adopt kids, too high expectation for child's performance, lack of parenting skills, lack of caring experience, an unstable marriage, pregnancy after adoption, step parent adoption); and agency characteristics(e.g. unprofessional in matching, insufficient service quality and assistance, unfit family needs, inadequate information). The research found that most of minor child adoption dissolution occurs in private adoption contexts. The perspective of adoption is still conservative and traditional, and focuses on adults' themselves, not concerns the best interests of the child. Thus, Taiwan's Government and adoption agencies should actively provide assistance for adoption, and make post-adoption supportive services available and accessible to protect the best interests of the child.
Highlights
It has been observed that increasing the rate of adoption dissolution compromises children's rights and the best interests of the child (Schwartz, 2006)
The Government and adoption agencies should actively provide assistance for adoption, and make available and accessible post-adoption supportive services to protect the best interests of the child (Lai, 2014b)
B. adopter family characteristics: their elders force them to adopt kids, too high expectation for kid’s performance, lack of parenting skills, lack of caring experience, unstable marriage, pregnancy after adoption, negative personality, financial problems, misconceptions of adoption, adoptive father helping less in caring, step parent adoption, surname change, adopting other kids again C. agency characteristics: unprofessional in matching, insufficient service quality and assistance, unfit family needs, inadequate information
Summary
It has been observed that increasing the rate of adoption dissolution compromises children's rights and the best interests of the child (Schwartz, 2006). Unfortunate events relating to adoption dissolution have occurred in Taiwan. In 2008 in Taipei, a physician and his wife who adopted an 11 years old boy for 4 years after he had been in orphanages for 7 years. Threw him out one midnight and went on to claim adoption dissolution. Newspapers disclosed the incident the following day and the community was shocked as to why the adoptive parents treated the boy in such a terrible way (Liu, 2008). Parens patriae should protect the children's rights and the best interests of the child when they have to be or have been adopted. The government should implement national parental rights to advocate the correct adoption philosophy and provide parenting courses to support adoptive parents so as to help them become suitable parents (Lai, 2010; The Swedish National Board of Health and Welfare, 2009)
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