adoption
Sign in to savethumb|right|250px|Sister Irene of New York Foundling Hospital with children. Sister Irene is among the pioneers of modern adoption, establishing a system to board out children rather than institutionalize them. Adoption is a process whereby a person assumes the parenting of another, usually a child, from that person's biological or legal parent or parents. Legal adoptions permanently transfer all rights and responsibilities, along with filiation, from the biological parents to the adoptive parents.
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Adoption is the legal process where a person or couple becomes the permanent parent(s) of a child, taking on all the rights and responsibilities that biological parents would have. This process transfers the child's legal relationship from their biological parents to their adoptive parents, creating a permanent family bond recognized by law.
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- History
- Antiquity
- Adoption for the well-born
- Middle ages to modern period
- Adoption and commoners
- Modern period
- Adopting to create a family
- Contemporary adoption
- Forms of adoption
- How adoptions originate
- Disruption and dissolution
- Adoption by same-sex couples
- Parenting of adoptees
- Parenting
- Effects on the original parents
- Development of adoptees
- Identity
- Influences
- Mental health
- Adoptees of LGBT parents
- Late-Discovery Adoptees
- Public perception of adoption
- Forced adoption
- Forced assimilation
- Commercialized adoption
- Baby farming
- Child harvesting
- Birth and adoption records
- Language of adoption
- Reunion
- Cultural variations
- Homecoming Day
- See also
- References
- Further reading
thumb|right|250px|Sister Irene of New York Foundling Hospital with children. Sister Irene is among the pioneers of modern adoption, establishing a system to board out children rather than institutionalize them. Adoption is a process whereby a person assumes the parenting of another, usually a child, from that person's biological or legal parent or parents. Legal adoptions permanently transfer all rights and responsibilities, along with filiation, from the biological parents to the adoptive parents.
Unlike guardianship or other systems designed for the care of the young, adoption is intended to effect a permanent change in status and as such requires societal recognition, either through legal or religious sanction. Historically, some societies have enacted specific laws governing adoption, while others used less formal means (notably contracts that specified inheritance rights and parental responsibilities without an accompanying transfer of filiation). Modern systems of adoption, arising in the 20th century, tend to be governed by comprehensive statutes and regulations.