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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Adoption

Parenting; Adoption

The official transfer through the court system of all of the parental rights that a biological parent has to a child, along with an assumption by the adopting parent of all of the parental rights of ...

Attachment

Parenting; Adoption

The formation by a child of significant and stable emotional connexions with the significant people in its life. This process begins in early infancy as the child bonds with one or more primary ...

Apostille

Parenting; Adoption

A simplified and standardised form that is used for the purpose of providing a certification of certain public documents relating to adoption, including notarized documents, that is used in countries ...

Affidavit

Parenting; Adoption

A formal legal document containing written statements of legal significance that are being sworn to under oath by the author of the document, who is known as the "Affiant. " The act of signing the ...

Adoptive parents

Parenting; Adoption

Although this term is often used to refer to both parents that are seeking to adopt, and parents that already have adopted, it is probably more commonly used to describe parents that are seeking to ...

Bonding

Parenting; Adoption

The process that a child goes through in developing lasting emotional ties with it's immediate caregivers, which is seen as the first and most significant developmental task of a human being, and is ...

Black market adoptions

Parenting; Adoption

Adoptions that do not conform to the established state and federal laws that regulate adoption, and which usually involve the payment of large sums of money to an adopted child's birth parents, an ...