Adoption Law

Adoption law creates the legal relationship of parent and child between persons who are not each other's biological parent or child. It is largely a product of state law. Adoption laws vary from state to state. There are also different types of a legal adoption. But whether you decide go through an adoption agency or to adopt from a private person, a decree of adoption usually means that the legal relationship of the adopted child is completely severed with its biological parents and family. For all legal purposes, adopted children become the children of their adoptive parents

Both foster and adoption agencies strive to give a child a loving, permanent home. Typically that used to mean finding a young, married couple that had the same skin color as the child. People who are single, over 40, or gay still often face obstacles and delays in adopting a child. Even young, white couples wanting to adopt a child of a different race can face hassles.

It's not that people who don't fit the "traditional" parent profile can't legally adopt, it's just that it requires more patience. After all, hundreds of thousands of children are eagerly waiting to find parents. More than approximately 514,000 children were in foster care at the end of 2005 and about 115,000 of them were eligible to be adopted, according to reports by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

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