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What Adoption is

What Adoption is

Adoption is a legal process that transfers parental responsibility from a child's birth parents to adoptive parents. The child becomes, in law, a full member of the adoptive family. When a court makes an adoption order, it cannot be revoked.

Adoption is a way of providing a permanent home for a child that cannot, for whatever reason, be brought up in his/her birth family.

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