Eight wonders of the worldEight children. It's all just a little different from the rest. All with different parents, different genes, and completely different deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) that dates back to completely different parts of the world. Broken branches grafted onto a different family tree, as Shane Koyczan would say. However, they are all part of the same family; all linked to each other by the same bond. They are bound together, now and forever. They are brothers, sisters and friends. My mother's parents adopted Tim, Mary, Carolyn, Paul, Helen, Patrick, Maureen and my mother, Amy into their family and they wouldn't have it any other way. Adoption is a route for people who want children. and may not want or be able to have a biological child, for reasons such as infertility or not wanting to pass on genetic diseases, may; so they can have fun, spoil themselves and have a perfectly happy family, savoring all the ups and downs, because it's the ups and downs that make a family perfect. Adoption is a way to give many children the homes and families they deserve, so that they are not stuck in a harmful and repetitive system of foster care and orphanages. Adoption can, however, be seen as harmful to children, due to the rare examples of neglect and abuse we have seen in the media, and even the symptoms expressed by the parents of adopted children and the children themselves. We see things like Adopted Child Syndrome (ACS) which leads to emotions and behaviors exhibited by the adopted child that are unhealthy for the child and those around them such as "pathological lying, stealing... promiscuity, learning disabilities… and more and more serious”. antisocial behavior” (Carangelo). But SCA is not caused... middle of document...... Researcher October 1, 2009: 257-84. Internet. April 16, 2014. Koyczan, Shane. “To this day.” TED 2013. April 28, 2014. Speech. Krueger, Angela. “Pros and Cons of Transracial Adoption.” Suite101.com. Np: np, 2009. N. pag. Rep. in International Adoptions. Ed. Marguerite Haerens. Detroit: Greenhaven, 2011. Opposing Viewpoints. Opposing viewpoints in context. Internet. April 23, 2014. Land, Judith and Martin Land. Adoption Detective: Memoir of an Adopted Child. Tucson: Wheatmark, 2011. Print. “The Russian adoption case belies many happy adoptions. » All things considered April 13, 2010: n. page. Gale Power Research. Internet. April 16, 2014.Spiegel, Alix. "Study: Adoption is not detrimental to a child's self-esteem." Morning edition Nov. 23, 2007: n. page. Opposing viewpoints in context. Internet. April 15, 2014. “Statistics.” International adoption. United States Department of State, September 30, 2013. Web. April 28. 2014.