Adoption paper outline

Adoption Paper

Part 1: Introduction

            A: Bring up question of legality vs. culture in adoption. (This shall probably be your thesis.)

            B: State your thought on the matter.

            C: bring up any misconceptions, (be they true or false,) that may have lead you to think this. (will probably mesh with part B.)

            D: Ask the “audience” weather or not that is the case.

Part 2: Brief background

            A: give a brief history of adoption, (how it’s been around since ancient Rome, biblical references, ect.)

            NOTE: Be careful with this part, most of the paper is history, so don’t “spoil” anything.

Part 3: History of AMERICAN adoption.

            A: give the basic run-through of how adoption developed in America.

            B: Mention how the culture of American adoption is what the American government based legal adoption off of.

            C: assure that it was the culture of America that wanted a system of legal adoption and pushed for it in the 1900’s.

Part 4: What IS adoption in America?

            A: Mention our basic idea/definition of adoption.

            B: go over its roots in Christian religion and how that affected our view of it.

            C: Develop on how this evolved into modern adoption.

Part 5: Is it the same elsewhere?

            A: assure the audience that the former paragraph was talking of AMERICAN adoption, and that the ideas and execution of adoption in other countries are VERY different.

Part 6: Greco-Roman adoption.

            A: give them a basic rundown of adoption in ancient Rome and Greece.

            B: Tell about how there was no push for legal adoption in Rome and Greece, it just kind of happened out of convenience, (culture came first though.)

            C: Tell why exactly it was convenient, (inheritance and all.)

Part 7: Greco-Roman V.S. American

            A: compare and contrast the obvious differences in the two ideas.

            B: give an analysis on how the culture v.s. the legality of adoption was different and similar in both eras.

            NOTE: make a mention the legend of Hercules, (supposedly he was adopted after getting kicked out of mount Olympus, much like our system, showing that there WAS a similar system of adoption, it just never hit the courtrooms.)

Part 8: Japanese adoption

            A: give brief history of adoption in Japan.

            B: talk about the dubious side of Japanese adoption.

            C: show how the government had to change things for the better.

            D: Note that they did it both for family AND inheritance reasons.

Part 9: Japanese vs. the other two.

            A: Tell how the legal V.S. cultural angle there was MUCH different that the American and Greco-Roman histories.

            B: Emphasize that this was because of the special situation the country had been put in as a pose to the other two nations and eras.  

Part 10: Conclusion

            A: Sum up that adoption is like any other part of our respective cultures, (music, food, family, ect.) in that most all nations have it, but we all define and experience it differently.

            B: Therefor what changes/shapes adoption isn’t necessarily legality or culture, but a combination of the two mixed with circumstance.