Adoption

Adoption

Adoption is the process of assuming parenting for another, and in turn all rights and responsibilities attached to this, from the biological parents of the child being adopted.

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decree of adoption

Parenting; Adoption

The document that a judge signs to finalize an adoption. It formally creates the parent-child relationship between the adoptive parents and the adopted child, as though the child were born as the ...

Adoption placement

Parenting; Adoption

This term is used to describe the point in time when your child comes to live with you in your home.

Adoption plan

Parenting; Adoption

A formal Plan (usually in writing) that is created by one or both of the biological parents of a child who it is planned will be placed for adoption. The plan can be simple, or detailed and ...

A reversal or voiding of an adoption after its legal finalization. This can occur for a variety of reasons, the most common of which are: 1) That there was not a good match of the needs of the child ...

Domestic adoption

Parenting; Adoption

An adoption that involves adoptive parents and a child that are citizens and residents of the United States.

Disruption

Parenting; Adoption

This term generally refers to an adoption that for some reason has not become final, even though the adoptive parents were identified as the parents to adopt the child and the child may have even ...