Adoption is the legal act of permanently placing a child with a parent or parents other than the birth mother or father.
There are three types of it:
1)Open adoption- it is when a child can know all the information about his adoption,his birth parents and the both parties can contact, share information, meet each other and etc.;
2)Semi-open adoption- birth parents and the adoptive parents can meet one or several times and later they can just exchange letters, postcards or e-mails;
3)Closed adoption-in the process of adoption can be shared important information, such as medical records, but after finishing adoption there is no contacts and information shared.
1)Open adoption- it is when a child can know all the information about his adoption,his birth parents and the both parties can contact, share information, meet each other and etc.;
2)Semi-open adoption- birth parents and the adoptive parents can meet one or several times and later they can just exchange letters, postcards or e-mails;
3)Closed adoption-in the process of adoption can be shared important information, such as medical records, but after finishing adoption there is no contacts and information shared.
According to the living place of adoptive parties, there are two more types of adoption: a)domestic, which is divided to foster care adoption and intra-family adoption, and b)international one.
Foster care adoption means that a child is initially placed in foster care system for adoption. Intra-family adoption is when the adoptive parents become the child’s relatives after taking away his/her birth parents’ parental rights or after their death. Then mostly takes care of an orphan his/her aunts, uncles, elder brothers/sisters or grandparents.
International adoption is when the parties of this act live in different countries or states (federations). It is quit popular to adopt child from the abroad. And, for example, in Lithuania the foreigners who want to adopt a Lithuanian child have more privileges and better conditions to adopt than the native adopters.
International adoption is when the parties of this act live in different countries or states (federations). It is quit popular to adopt child from the abroad. And, for example, in Lithuania the foreigners who want to adopt a Lithuanian child have more privileges and better conditions to adopt than the native adopters.
In conclusion, there could be discussed a question, why people adopt children. There are lots of reasons. For example, a child often goes to foster care house because his parents have an inability to adequately care for him, or they maltreat with him, or involuntary lose their parental rights and etc. Adoptive parents reasons to adopt could be : inability to biological reproduction; the lack of a partner; step-parent adoption and etc.
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