Raising A Non-Biological Child

Question: Discuss the concept of non-biological child, theory on non-biological parents, conditions essential for raising a Non- Biological Child. Answer: Introduction: Concept of non-biological child: The concept of Non Biological Child isnt an old concept. Its been almost a century round that this particular idea have been trying to force its existence into the society. In order to analyse this concept, we need to know what does the term means in itself. Its only when we know the meaning, we can provide a brief statistics on it. Non-Biological, the term itself explains that something which is not Biological or something which is against the Natural law. The term Non- Biological Child means a child who isnt biological related to his parents. In a simple way, it can be explained as a child who isnt a biological production of his parents. That doesnt mean that the child has to be an adoptive child (Thelamour and Jacobs). There might be instances where a man grows a belief within in himself that he is the father of that child and starts behaving as a father of that particular child in the society. But in todays world to take up the responsibility of upbringing a non-biological child, one has to become the adoptive guardian of that child by legal procedure. Theory on non-biological parents: Few years back around the year 2008, John Bowlby developed a theory based on the inter-personal relationships between human beings known as the Attachment Theory. He conceptually believed that the tendency of a child to grow attachment will be with someone familiar of giving care and love and providing protection to the infant. It is a result of a mutative pressure as attachment helps a child to be safe from danger and also from getting explored to new elements that might or might not be safe for the child. It is quite a logical sytem that an infant when starts expecting protection, care and support of all kind, they get instantly attach to the one who provides them with all this needs. Even an adult would behave in the same manner. It is very necessary for a child to develop attachment with any one person as the entire emotional and pshycological growth in a human being takes place during the infant stage (Levine and Munsch). It is at this stage that a child seeks emotional bonding and protection. In that manner it not compulsory for an infant to develop an emotional bonding with his biological parents only. An infant can grow emotional attachment with any other person who might not be biologically related to him (Wisnowski). For the Natural Law doesnt provide for any such rule which says that attachment can develop only at places where there is a biological link. Herein comes the concept of Non-Biological Parents. If a man can provide love, care, emotional and mental security to an infant at the base, then an infant will obviously develop an attachment with that person and hence that person can become the guardian of that infant if he feels to be. This concept was developed John Bowlby to secure the mental and emotional need of an human being and to safeguard the inter-personal connections among them (White). Raising of non-biological child: Upbringing of a child has always been a challenge for every parents whether their child is biological or non-biological child (Krystal). Parenting is an individuals personal choice. The concept of Non-Biological is vastly present in todays world. Orphans, child who dont have their parents are mainly benefited by this idea of bringing up non-biological child. The acknowledgement of this idea has given a lot of orphans and street children and suffering children a home to live in and a place where they will be served with all the needs an infant requires (Guerra, Graham and Tolan). This system of Raising of Non-biological Child is widely practiced in the entire world today. Conditions essential for raising a Non- Biological Child: Few conditions are required to be checked in before given the right to any person to become the Non-Biological Parent of an infant which are summed up as follows: Firstly,the most important thing that is taken into consideration is the Childs age.It has been noticed earlier that there are situations where children generally above 10years hesitate to adopt there Non-Biological parents. Generally children of lower age group accepts and gets well settled with their non-biological parents. Secondly, in divorce matters or where the biological father have died, a mothers support plays a vital role in helping the court take a desicion regarding the delivery of parental right to a non-biological father. Its only when a mother feels and support that her child would not have a problem having an adoptive father, a parental right should be granted. Lastly, relationship structure between man or woman taking wanting to take the charge of the child and the non-biological child. It is very necessary to look into the fact that the person wanting to take charge of an infant have the necessary resources to raise the child and can secure the child from all danger (Bates, Watson and King). It is also necessary to find out that whether that person has any sort of wrong intention behind the adoption and whether he can develop the emotions that a parent seeks to have. Only if the above conditions are checked raising of a non-political child would be secured and safe. One of the most remarkable instance of Raising of Non-Biological Child: One of the most remarkable instances have been set out by Norway. Norway is working hard still on the issues of Non-Biological parents and in that regards they have initiated few acts like The Children Act and established a Child Protection Welfare Service to help children deprived of parental love and care. The recent case matters where the Indian Couples children were separated from there parents and kept in foster home as they were not being given proper love and care by their biological parents, marks a remarkable example of how Norway works on Child Welfare (Choe). This is one of the most noticeable and remarkable instance of how today people have accepted the concept of raising a non-biological child all over the world. References: Bates, Lyndel, Barry Watson, and Mark J. King. 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