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The Webster definition for adoption is “the act or process of adopting a child”. If children aren’t raised by their biological parents they are adopted. Through adoption children can be raised by their grandparents, step parents, or others seeking to have a child.

Adoption allows the child to get parental care by other parents if their biological parents can’t or won’t take care of them. The adoptive parents take on any responsibility that the biological parents would’ve taken on if they had decided to raise them. Some of the responsibilities are safety, healthcare, shelter, education and any other factors. Adoption gives the adoptive parents and child an opportunity to form a bond.

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Through private adoption, the birthparents get in contact with an adoption professional and the professional seeks potential families that could possibly become the guardian parents. Public adoption is interacting with potential guardians through an adoption professional. International adoption is adopting a child from another country. Relative adoption is the child is being adopted by a family member or step parent. There are other types of adoption, but those four are the most common and the ones the US sees the most. Another type of adoption that’s not seen as often is open adoption. Open adoption allows the biological parents to stay involved in the child’s life, but how they stay involved is up to the adoptive parents since they are the legal guardians.

To become an option to be an adoptive parent, the person usually has to be 21, but adoption agencies themselves have their own set of requirements that the person has to meet. The agencies analyze each person’s application to see who can be the better parent to the child.

Adoption gives children the opportunity to feel the benefit of having parents. It also gives parents who cannot have their own kids, to be able to have a kid and fill the role and dream of being a

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