infant adoption
Newborn family transfer
Infant adoption is the legal process of permanently transferring parental rights for a baby to adoptive parents, typically arranged before or shortly after birth.
Distinguished from adopting older children, infant adoption often involves birth mothers selecting adoptive families and may be handled through agencies or private arrangements: They were on a waiting list for infant adoption for two years.
- newbornInfant just delivered
- babyVery young child
- orphanChild whose parents died
- birthmotherWoman who gave birth
- placementPutting somewhere specific
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- adoptionbirth parents, birth parent, birth mother, home study
- orphan careorphanages, orphans, foundlings, foster care, foster homes
infant adoptionfoster care
Supervised substitute parenting
respite care · child abandonment · kinship care · guardianship · institutional care
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