adoption programs
Family matching services
Adoption programs are organized systems for placing children with families other than their biological parents, or for rehoming animals from shelters.
Child adoption programs handle legal transfers of parental rights and responsibilities: The state's adoption program matched her with a newborn.
Pet adoption programs place dogs, cats, and other animals with new owners: The shelter runs an adoption program every Saturday.
The term also extends to symbolic arrangements like highway adoption programs, where volunteers maintain stretches of road.
- fosterEncourage development of
- orphanageInstitution housing parentless children
- childrenYoung human beings
- placementPutting somewhere specific
- familyRelated people together
reunification · caseworker · birth mother · birth parents · waiting · waiting list · permanency · matching · home study · paperwork · legal process · parental rights · shelter · rescue · pets · forever home · agencies · international
- sanctuarykeepers, caretakers, volunteers, enclosures, visitor centers
- cow sanctuarycalves, bulls, heifers, pastures, barns
- cultural erasurecultural genocide, ethnocide, forced assimilation, cultural erasure, identity loss
- cat cafescats, kittens, cat lounge, petting, cuddling
- animal lawsanimal protection, dog fighting, bullfighting, impoundment, dog warden
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Relatives by blood origin
natural conception · blood relatives · procreation · fertility treatments · in vitro fertilization
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Supervised substitute parenting
kinship care · respite care · group homes · residential care · temporary placement
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