An adoption is the act of taking on unrelated persons as one’s own relations, nearly always as a son or daughter, and adoption screening refers to the practice of matching “like with like,” a process whereby the most suitable adoptees are paired with the most suitable adopters.
Adoption screenings is advocated by many concerned activists, though it has still not yet become the norm. But adoption screening makes sense, since, in the assumption of parental duties over those not of immediate kin, whom usually one has never before seen, there can be a very great chance of misunderstanding. For instance, some wishing to adopt a girl may not be equally prepared to adopt a boy. Or an adopter might not be prepared to deal with the specific challenges of a physically or mentally handicapped child.
Adoption screening inside the United States and much of Europe occurs within a cultural tradition that has been informed by that of the Roman Empire, and it was not until only about fifty to no more than roughly a hundred years ago when adoptees were even considered adoptees as being equal to so-called full-blooded relations. Such bias had long been manifested in such norms as not even recognizing any legal inheritance rights for them.
In fact, adoptions were often indistinguishable from indentured servitude at best, whereby room and board was provided in return for labor for a set number of years; it has to be considered a relative improvement when adoptions became more like apprenticeships, providing at least some training in marketable skills.
Actually, that was the norm for millennia throughout the world. Adoption screening can thus be seen as the latest develoment in a adoptee-centric ethos, or philosophy. And within adoption screening today, the primary chllenges involve cross-cultural and cross-racial adoptions, not to mention adoptions made by homosexuals.
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