Are there any downsides to adoption?

Hell fucking yes! (Curse words for emphasis.) As an adopted child, you can be adopted into a family with awful parents. I don't mean the sadly obvious ones where a child is adopted and later dies of abuse from their adoptive parents. read more

There are upsides and downsides if you want to call them that to both adoption and having a child biologically. One example: having a child biologically is ‘free’ if you have great health care, while adoption can be costly. read more

As with any adoption arrangement, open adoption is far from simple. It has its share of benefits and risks. Having two sets of parents can be complicated even at the best of times. But by keeping things real, adoptive parents and birth parents have the ability to work together and give their child a loving and secure future. read more

Although step-parent adoption allows a child to be eligible for everything that the step-parent's biological children can receive (inheritance, medical insurance and the like,) there are also downsides. For example, if a couple divorces, the former step-parent, now parent, is subject to everything any biological parent must follow. read more