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How long will we allow our Justice Systems to fail to fight the habit and culture of neglect through country-wide adoptive systems?

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The Problem

Our Justice system can do something about neglect in adoption agencies. If neglect were seen and spoken of more as severe damage to children and adults, we could serve as a catalyst to the unfulfilled or nonsustaining love in America's neglected children. The adoption system is so full that it is improbable that any person receive good one-on-one communication and love from a single other human being. With love we go to college, do our schoolwork, find friends, help others; all things stem from unconditional love the social interaction. It is impossible to do things without the support of those around us. Neglect is a serious human rights issue. It is not spoken of on it's own. In sociology, an up-and-coming respected science, neglect is seen as a serious and dangerous social issue with lasting effects; however without making society aware of neglect as an unconscious act (specifically in agencies preparing children for adoption), we harm our children in the process. The "big league" of science and law overlook sustainable information about the effects of neglect is overlooked due to defaults in the writing or how the study was prepared. This is partly due to the area these studies stemming from a sociological science. Sociology made it's mark on our culture by looking at social issues that cause humans emotional harm. But sociology is not seen as "enough" of a powerful motivator by other scientists, and a threat to citizens that chose to rather protect their rights of the state not telling us what we can and cannot do with our children. This type of attitude I believe has a ripple effect into court rooms and other areas where real change can happen. It leads society to no longer see a social or moral necessity by neglect in itself. Neglect, only when coupled with addictions, sex abuse, and/or violence receives the attention it needs. But change for neglected children needs to happen right now. For america, the neglect in adoption agencies country wide is "okay" in part because we can only "do what we can." It is felt by many that the absence of love is just as dark, frightful and damaging. How much longer will we allow not enough determination to take us from making change? When we do not come together on issues and spread awareness, children do not understand the reason that they are so lonely, isolated, and feel as though they can not accomplish things. Out of the number of people who are being neglected, from when they are born until their later years, these open canvas' in children can also be a help to society. The better we see ourselves as a whole raising the bar for our children is the better we can accomplish these things. That is why I am starting an outreach to understand what is going on with adoption agencies this semester.

Plan of Action

I plan on facing the excuse: "doing what we can." We can do a lot better things to our kids than we are now. My plan of action is to allow kids in my school rallied up. I will pay them to go to adoption agencies and see what kind of info we can gather. Then i will print off this info into packets, along with case studies I already have and talk with families whose kids have been inside adoption agencies. My main objective is to "create a story" that would focus attention and to get this information online as soon as possible. Tangible things such as free pamphlets i can mail to people who sign up. It would also be my intention to do a newsletter or a text service. The more I can influence the people around me to have a reason, or incentives, to support "my cause" the more I will be able to outreach into this industry and learn about it. It is my understanding doing what you can is seen in the eye of the beholder. I would like people to see and envision a similar world that I see, with kids no longer being neglected but being the focus of our society. I do what I can to remind my generation of the things that we are responsible for. I need to remind these people in my classes and my friends that one person can make a big difference. I am hoping incentives will lead people my age to information on neglect to create it to be a new and "fresh" issue in the future. I see myself leading people towards the headline: "How to create a world we want to live in that every child at least has a loving, consistent, one on one relationship with another human." I'd repeat things such as, "Doing what we can by ignoring children in adoption agencies because there is not enough of them is not our responsibility. Our responsibility helps us face what we can do." If I get people to listen, that's all I would need. I feel my work would be halfway done. If we create a world that does not lack in the necessity of love for our children then people around the world will turn their head, when before they did not. There is a better way and we should fight for a better way to to cope with the problem that there are too many children to pay attention to. Neglect is not the answer when dealing with human beings. Overall my biggest objective would be to create an outreach that I can work with creating a whole new cause on dosomething.org. I can fuel this cause on my own in my town or city, but the internet goes to farther places I could not reach.My dream would be to get a group of like-minded individuals with the same understanding. Thank You
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