Blog #15

I think that this class has been way to much for for someone just taking it for basics. I almost feel that this was enough work to be going to college to be an English major. I spent more time on this class than the classes I need for my prerequisites to go into the nursing program. 

Blog #14

I am going to talk about how ready I am for this semester to be over with. I do believe this semester feels like the longest I have ever had. It has taken everything I have to not drop all of my classes. I really hope to get into the nursing program at BRTC or at ASUN starting in August. I know this is not going to be 250 words but with all the blogs and essays in this class plus all of the discussions boards in my other 3 classes I am for once lost for words. It seems like all teachers wait till the end of the semester to finally start giving work. I am always confused at that. If I was a teacher I would give all the assignments at the beginning of the semester. I feel that the people who make it through the first 6 weeks or so should be given a break for the rest of the semester. I guess it is a good thing I am not going to be a teacher even though having every summer, spring break, thanksgiving break, christmas break, plus all the extra day in between sounds really good.

Blog #12

I will be doing my essay over why I think that open adoption is better than a closed adoption. My husband and I had an extremely hard time deciding what we would do about this problem before we became foster parents. Even though I did my adoption through DHS (DHS only does closed adoption, from what I have been told) we were given the opportunity to allow our son to have a relationship with his siblings. My son and his siblings do not see their biological parents but in the future when they decide to straighten their lives up I would allow them to see him. I do keep up with them because I know that someday he will have questions and I want him to have them answered.

Open adoption can provide a child with a sense of connection and completeness. Openness may answer many of the questions that adopted children in closed adoptions often struggle to answer such as: Who am I? What are my birth parents like? Why was I placed for adoption?

The possible benefits of open adoption for a child include—

Having links to his or her birth mother, and possibly birth father, brothers, and sisters. The ability to be able to do away with the need to search for the birth family when the child is old enough to understand, and may have many questions that the adoptive parents are not able to answer. Being able to remove the feelings of secrecy and shame that can come up at different points in his or her life, although not all of the time. Increased self-worth, sense of identity, and security that comes from firsthand answers to identity questions. Having a sense of belonging which may lessen the child’s feelings of abandonment. Connection to the child’s cultural, ethnic background, and ancestry. Better access to important medical information, such as factors that can lead to disease, or medical conditions that exist in the birth families. Better understanding of the reasons for placement into the adopted family’s home. A sense of knowing that the child may look like someone else or has characteristics that comes from a blood connection.