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When a couple is involved in Home Study process, the social worker helps to clarify and the doubts. This period can be compared to the nine months of gestation provided by nature before a biological birth, which allows a couple to prepare themselves emotionally for parenthood.

During this period the adoption agency focuses on certain issues while counselling the adoptive parents :
  • Emotional readiness, acceptance of adoption as an alternate means of parenthood.
  • Acceptance of infertility without any residual sense of guilt, blame, inadequacy or deprivation.
  • Apprehensions and fears related to
    • social and religious background of the child.
    • illegitimacy of the child.
    • hereditary and environmental influences on the child.
    • the process of child selection.
    • acceptance of the child by family, friends and neighbours.
    • confidentiality of the process and future claimants on the child.
  • Request for 'secret' adoption.
  • Anxieties about sharing the fact of adoption with the child in future.
Counselling looks at which of the two - environment or hereditary - is more influential in a child's personal development. While hereditary provides the potential, it is the environment that helps or hinders the child in drawing on her potential. If a nurturing, stimulating environment and maximum opportunities are provided to the child, then the child is able to develop in a healthy, wholesome manner. Behavioural patterns and personality traits are acquired by the child through the process of identification and role modelling, these are not inherited. On the other hand, predisposition and suceptibility to certain illness are inherited. To check for these a complete medical screening done on the child before adoption.

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