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adoption

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.

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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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422,023 papers

Adoption and single parents: a review.ReviewChild welfare · 1991Groze V
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ADOPTION.British medical journal · 1958
ADOPTION.British medical journal · 1953
Racial Identity and Transcultural Adoption.Online journal of issues in nursing · 2022Castner J, Foli KJ
Adoption in England: past and present challenges.Archives of disease in childhood · 2024Talbot J, Bell J, Mandal A et al.DOI: 10.1136/archdischild-2023-325655
[International adoption: children's health risk evolution].ReviewBulletin de la Societe de pathologie exotique (1990) · 2012Dartiguenave CDOI: 10.1007/s13149-012-0215-3
International adoption: a case review of Korean children.ReviewChild psychiatry and human development · 1995Kim WJDOI: 10.1007/BF02251299

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Contents

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

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.