Factors influencing child placement in adoption practices in South Western Nigeria: In the best interest of the child?

Onayemi, Olayinka Modupe; Aderinto, Adeyinka Abideen

doi:10.1016/j.childyouth.2019.02.041

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“…For others, the idea leads to a situation in which home is no longer sought for needy children, but the needy children for Western homes (Graff, 2009). The fact is such cases where some children are being adopted internationally when there are intending domestic adopters may support the earlier framing of the practice as new order imperialism (Onayemi & Aderinto, 2019a). However, the peculiarity of local reality may incite the need for intercountry adoption.…”

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“…This study conceives such a prolonged stay of children as neglectful, and, therefore, seeks to explore reasons behind the situation of children’s neglect. This is particularly necessary, given that in Nigeria, the demands for child adoption is still greatly unmet (Onayemi & Aderinto, 2019a; Sonubi, 2014; Thomas & Ojo, 2019). It attempts to fill these gaps by exploring factors which encumber successful child placement, leading to the prolonged contact of children with the notoriously harmful institutional care when they should have been placed within adoptive homes.…”

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Neglecting the Neglected: Encumbrances to Children’s Successful Transitioning From Orphanages to Adoptive Homes in Nigeria

2022

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The majority of children living within institutional care have a history of neglect. Past studies have identified developmental challenges with children in institutional care, for which reasons, orphanages must be transitional. However, placement of some children living in the orphan homes remains difficult. Through an in-depth interview with orphanage managers, social workers, prospective and successful adopters, and foster mothers, the study situates the diverse encumbrances to child placement in observed irregularities within three stages (entry, within the home, and at the exit point) of children’s contact with the orphan homes. The study found that unresolved regulation on the duration for custody of children in orphan homes impedes the placement of children who are merely kept for care and protection. Lack of response to the basic care needs of children within orphan homes poorly influence their chances for adoption, and sometimes disrupt placement processes. Also the legal preference for domestic adoption discourages and sabotages efforts toward inter-country placement of children who are not locally desired. These result into prolonged stay of children in orphan homes, and as such, children outgrow either adoption or fosterage. Child protection policy direction must, therefore, be value-laden, and informed by the unique system/society realities. This study, specifically, makes a case for more political interest in children living in orphan homes.

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Neglecting the Neglected: Encumbrances to Children’s Successful Transitioning From Orphanages to Adoptive Homes in Nigeria

2022

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“…Also, oversight needs to be kept on the operations of the system to ensure that exploitation and official profiting are discouraged. Lastly, adoption practices such as adopters' preferences that encourage delay should also be discouraged (Onayemi & Aderinto, 2019a), given the "market" that such practices likely create.…”

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“…In the face of these, the process of child adoption involves a lot of hassles, and very difficult procedures (Ojo, 2013). Preliminary studies (see Anthony, Meakings, Doughty, et al, 2016;Onayemi & Aderinto, 2019a) report bottle-necks in the child adoption processes, resulting in a backlog of application. While this may be considered a natural cause arising from the wide gap between demand and supply for adoptable children (Onayemi, 2019;Onayemi & Aderinto, 2019b).…”

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Anatomy of the long‐waiting period of prospective adopters on the state corridor of child adoption: A necessity or a denial?

Onayemi

2020

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Previous studies have revealed the prolonged stay of intending adopters while moving on the corridor of child adoption. However, little or nothing is known about the conceptions, causes, and effects of this delay on intending adopters. The study adopted structural functionalism as the theoretical model. Qualitative methods of data collection were employed. This comprised 22 in‐depth interviews with adoption officials and adopters, 10 key‐informant interviews, comprising five Orphanage managers, and five legal practitioners in three purposively selected states. The study revealed that poor management of intending adopters' application for adoption and adopters' preferences are the main causes of the delay. Delay, however, produced notable effects in circumventions and illegalities, marital disruptions, adopters' feelings of disappointments, and grievous health implications.

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Factors influencing child placement in adoption practices in South Western Nigeria: In the best interest of the child?

Cited by 2 publications

References 19 publications

Neglecting the Neglected: Encumbrances to Children’s Successful Transitioning From Orphanages to Adoptive Homes in Nigeria

Neglecting the Neglected: Encumbrances to Children’s Successful Transitioning From Orphanages to Adoptive Homes in Nigeria

Anatomy of the long‐waiting period of prospective adopters on the state corridor of child adoption: A necessity or a denial?

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