adoption process
Family-building journey legally
The adoption process is the series of legal and administrative steps required to formally make someone a parent of a child not born to them.
This typically includes application, home studies, background checks, matching with a child, and court finalization.
The adoption process took nearly two years.
The phrase also applies to acquiring pets from shelters: What's your adoption process for dogs?
- home studyLearning outside the classroom
- parental rightsLegal power over children
- background checksInvestigation of someone's past
- birth parentsGenetic mother and father
- counseling servicesProfessional emotional support sessions
legal documentation · finalization · eligibility criteria · attachment theory · support groups · sibling dynamics · child welfare · adopters · court hearings · identity formation · waiting period · home visit · cultural assimilation · placement · adoptive parents · educational workshops · orphanage · caseworker
- adoptionadoptive parents, birth parents, adopted child, adoptive parent, birth parent
- family lawchild custody, child support, alimony, family court, divorce petitions
- child custodychild custody, custody order, shared custody, sole custody, joint custody
adoption processgiving birth
Expelling infant from womb
pregnancy · natural birth · natural conception · conception · natural childbirth
adoption processrelinquishment
Formal giving up
child removal · abandonment · family separation · child abandonment
adoption processabandonment
Act of leaving permanently
refusal · discarding · relinquishment · giving away · renunciation