adoption rights
Legal family formation
Adoption rights are the legal entitlements surrounding adoption—both the right to adopt a child and the rights acquired through adoption.
The term appears most often in debates over whether same-sex couples, single parents, or other non-traditional families should be permitted to adopt: The court ruling expanded adoption rights to unmarried partners.
Once finalized, adoption confers full parental rights equivalent to biological parenthood.
- marriage equalitySame legal wedlock for all
- anti-discrimination lawsLegislation forbidding unequal treatment
- adoptive parentsLegal non-birth guardians
- child protection lawsStatutes defending minors' welfare
- foster careSupervised substitute parenting
sealed records · termination · civil unions · home study · parenting plans · co-parenting · permanency · custody agreements · finalization · birth mother · birth certificate · consent · child welfare · reunification · matching · legal · placement · biological
- parental rightsparental authority, parental responsibility, parental responsibilities, parental consent, parental duties
- adoptionadoptive parents, birth parents, adopted child, adoptive parent, birth parent
- children's rightschild protection, child welfare, child advocacy, right to education, child abuse
- LGBTQ rightsgay marriage, marriage equality, civil unions, same-sex marriage, employment protections
- youth rightschild protection, child custody, child labor laws, child support, juvenile justice
- juvenile lawjuvenile law, juvenile court, juvenile courts, juvenile justice, juvenile crime
adoption rightsbirth parent rights
Legal claims of biological progenitors
consanguinity · blood relation · reproductive rights · surrogacy · guardianship