Attitude and Belief of the Ever-Married People toward Child Adoption in Uzo-Uwani Local Government Area of Enugu State

📄 Project Abstract

The issue of child adoption is attracting world wide attention in the recent times. Biological ties form the hallmark of parent-child relationship and its absence has caused concern throughout the history of adoption (Logan, 1996). Nevertheless there is evidence that adoptive relationship can form along other lines, so adoptive parents enrich their children's lives to compensate for the lack of biological ties and external challenges. There is a biological tie relationship that exists between a mother and her child. This relationship makes a child feel the mother's absence when she is not around or dead. The adoptive parent can compensate an adopted child by showing him/her a good motherly care which ought to exist between a biological mother and her child. Years ago, adoption was a taboo in many countries including Nigeria, but today it has become more common and acceptable (Wayne, 2004). According to Wayne, (2004) because people's attitude towards adoption is changing, there is ...