The Contribution of Domestic Adoption in Minimizing the Vulnerabi lity of Children:The Case of Addis Ababa City.
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2016-06
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Addis Ababa University
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Children vulnerabi li ty in Ethiopia in general, Addis Ababa in part icu lar increases
from time to time due to various reasons such as death of their biological parent's by diseases,
war, famine, unwanted pregnancy and poverty. When children face such problems, using
different methods to support those vulnerable children like community-based support, foster
care, inter country adoption, insti tutional care and domestic adoption can minimize the
vulnerability of children. Therefore, the study was conducted to assess the contribution of
domestic adoption in minimizing children vulnerability in Addis Ababa. The overall objective
of the study was to in vestigate the contribution of domestic adoption in minimizing the
Vulnerability of children in Add is Ababa city. The study used both primary and secondary
information. The primary information was collected from IOdomestic adoptive parents and
3governmental and non-governmental organizations experts/key informants/ using in-depth
interv iew and observation of the general situations of the adoptive children. The Finding
indicated that the main pushing factor for adopting children were childlessness, need to
support a child, the need to have a diversified sex and to increase the adoptive parent/sf fami ly
size. The parti cipants of the study revealed that local households have recognized the
importance of domestic adoption over inter country adoption as it helps the adopted chi ldren
to be raised within the environment and culture. Findings of this study showed that domestic
adoption have significant contribution in minimizing vulnerabil ity of children.
Key words: Conlribulion, Domestic adoption, Vulnerability, Adoptive parents, Adopted
children.
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Conlribulion, Domestic adoption, Vulnerability, Adoptive parents, Adopted children.