Adoption
Adoption
is the legal procedure by which the "birth parent" (or parents)
give up their child to "adoptive parents". Once the adoption
is final, the child no longer has a parent-child relationship with the
birth parents, but only with the adoptive parents.
What
qualities do adoption agencies look for? Must adoptive parents
be married? Heterosexual?
May
birth parents revoke consent to adoption? May children learn
who their birth parents are? Do birth parents have any visitation
rights?
