Adoption stories, a program on the discovery health channel, is an interesting program because it features stories of successful adoptions in the United States and around the world. However, many adoptions are either unsuccessful or have problems. Adoptions can be open or closed. Open adoption involves an exchange of personal information, where an agency will look at things such as financial status and medical records. The adoptive and biological parents negotiate these issues before the child is adopted, and, in some cases, before the child is even born. The biological parents can decide to terminate the adoption if the adoptive parents don’t agree with the biological parents’ wishes. In a closed adoption, there is no sharing of personal information as the biological and adoptive parents don’t interact or have any personal contact.
Often, adoption is thought to be a good idea simply because it might be better for a child to have parents who are married, or to have somewhat older better established parents, or else it might simply be more convenient for the child's parents to be finished with college before having to deal with a child. It is unusual for people to talk about the "bad" side of adoption, but adoption is not an ideal situation. Adoption will provide a divorce-like situation for the child, who will be torn between pleasing her/his adopters and her/his original family. Separation from his/her mother, even at birth, often results in attachment disorder for the child (later adult adoptee), which will affect his/her life greatly. Another problem, which is even a greater problem, is the adoptee’s identity formation (www.geocities.com).

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