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Why do people adopt children?
Do you personally know anybody who has adopted a child?
Do you personally know anybody who was adopted?
Is adoption common in your country?
Why do people adopt from third world countries?
Would you prefer to adopt a boy or a girl? Why?
Which affects an adopted child most: its genetics or the home in which it grows up?

Many celebrities have adopted children internationally. What do you think of this?
What do you think about single parents adopting children?
What do you think about homosexual couples adopting children?
What do you think about people who already have biological children adopting children?
Should adoptions only take place if the parents and the children have the same race? Why?
Should adoptions adoptions only take place if the new parents have the same religion as the biological parents?
What do you think about elderly people adopting children?
If you want to legally adopt a child you have to go through a considerable bureaucracy in order to prove that you will be able to provide a good home for the child. However, if two people produce a child biologically there are no such checks. Should people who produce children naturally have to go through the series of checks as those who adopt? Why not?

What do you think about twins or family members being separated at adoption?
Should children have a right to know they have been adopted? At what age should they be told?
If children's biological parents are still alive, should the children have an automatic right to contact them?
Should the biological parents have any contact with the adopted child?
If you had been adopted do you think you would want to discover your biological parents? Why?

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 *Should adoptions adoptions only take place if the new parents have the same religion as the biological parents?
 *What do you think about elderly people adopting children?
+*If you want to legally adopt a child you have to go through a considerable bureaucracy in order to prove that you will be able to provide a good home for the child.  However, if two people produce a child biologically there are no such checks.  Should people who produce children naturally have to go through the series of checks as those who adopt?  Why not?
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