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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Biracial adoptions

Parenting; Adoption

A term used to refer to the adoption of children who have biological parents that are of different races.

Refers to the most common involuntary reason that the parental rights of an absent parent can be terminated by a court. Abandoment unanimously include some combination of an unjustified failure to ...

Waiting children

Parenting; Adoption

Refers to non-infant, school age children, who have become legally available for adoption. They will generally be under the legal jurisdiction and care of public foster care agencies, and will have ...

Birth parent

Parenting; Adoption

The biological parents of a child, whether male or female, and regardless of whether the parents of the child are married to each other, or are shown as the parents of the child on its birth ...

Adoption triad

Parenting; Adoption

A term used to describe the three-sided relationship that exists in an adoption between birth parents, adoptive parents and the adoptee, each of which is interrelated and inter-dependent on the ...

Adoption triangle

Parenting; Adoption

A term used to describe the three-sided relationship that exists in an adoption between birth parents, adoptive parents and the adoptee, each of which is interrelated and inter-dependent on the ...