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Legal provision that creates a parent-child relation between persons not related by blood; the adopted child is entitled to all privileges belonging to a natural child of the adoptive parents (including the right to inherit).
In Adoption a child becomes a permanent member of a new family. It means the child has the same family name and the same legal rights as if they had been born into the adoptive family.
Few of the many reasons for children adoption
The social disgrace that was attached to birth children with out marriage - this was particularly true until the end of the 1970's.
Be short of financial support to lone parents and their children. The first social welfare payment to lone parents was made in 1973.
The plea of parents to have their children reared in two parent families particularly in the past.
The disaster created by a pregnancy may be so painful, that birth parents see difficulties in raising the child themselves.
By registered adoption agencies (societies) and health boards. Agencies are registered by the Adoption Board for the purpose of placing children for adoption most children are placed for adoption by registered agencies.
Family adoption, where the child is placed for adoption with another family member e.g. birth parent's sister or aunt 3rd party placements, where a third party e.g. a doctor, solicitor, nurses or members of the clergy, placed children with an adoptive family.
Confidentially where the birth family knows the adoptive family Fostering is caring for someone else's child in your home. Sometimes for one reason or another, a child cannot live with her parents, either on a short or long-term basis. It might be illness, unemployment, the death of a parent, child abuse or neglect, which can lead to a child being placed in a foster home. Ideally the child will return to its own family as soon as it is possible.
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