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Adoption is the act of legally placing a child with a parent or parents other than those to whom they were born. An adoption order has the effect of severing parental responsibilities and rights of the original parent(s) and transferring those responsibilities and rights to the adoptive parent(s).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Category:Adoption” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.