Adoption is the creation of a new, permanent relationship between an adoptive parent and child. Once this happens, there is no legal difference between a child who is adopted and a child who is born into a family.
Birth parents have many different reasons for putting children up for adoption. Some decide that they want better lives for their kids than they feel they can provide. Some feel their child would do better living in another country. Many birth parents say that having their child placed for adoption with another family is the most difficult thing in the world, but that sometimes it is truly in the child's best interests.
Families of all kinds adopt kids of all kinds, from babies to teens. Kids may be adopted by a relative, foster parent, or a completely new family. An adoptive family might be a single parent, a couple, or a family with kids.
Adoptions can be arranged by adoption agencies or handled independently (where the parties involved work through an adoption attorney or private center). An increasing number of adoptions are taking place internationally, with people adopting kids from a different country.
Adoptions are subject to the laws of different states and countries. Some adoptions are confidential (also called closed adoptions), which means that neither the birth nor adoptive parents know the others' identities. Other adoptions are handled more openly. Open adoptions, where both parties have some level of contact with each other, are becoming more common.
This book is your essential adoption information guide that provides you adoption facts to help you learn adoption process, adoption options and adoption ideas for you to make the right adoption decision! In this book, you’ll learn:
• How Do You Know If Adoption Is Right For You
• Reasons To Consider Adoption
• Adoption: Rules And Laws
• Adoption: Know Your Rights
• Adoption Agencies
• Adoption Records
• Adoption Statistics
• International Adoption
• Adoption Dissolution
• Children For Adoption
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