What is adoption?
What is adoption?
Adoption is a family for a child, forever.
An adopted child becomes a new member of the family in the same way as a biological child, with equal rights and responsibilities.
A family environment is the ideal environment to give a child a sense of safety, trust, and love.
It guarantees stable, and permanent, family support for the child.
Legal mini facts about adoption:
A child becomes a son or a daughter of the adopting parents after the court’s approval
An adopted child receives the same legal status and rights as biological children
Adoption is permanent
Who can adopt?
Adoptive parents must be adults who are aware of all the responsibilities required by adoption. They need to prove their physical, emotional and financial capacity for accepting a new child into their family.
Who cannot adopt?
Those with health issues, financial instability, a criminal record, no housing, or those who are unable to guarantee stable and safe living and upbringing conditions to the adopted child, may not be adoptive parents. At least one of these factors can result in denial of an application to become adopting parents.
Who can be adopted?
A child whose parents have given voluntary consent to adoption, and a child with the status of an orphan or a child deprived of parental care, may be adopted.
Other ways to take a child into your family:
All these options allow you to protect a child from growing up in an institutional setting.
Short-term and emergency foster care (Patronage)
Patronage is a professional comprehensive service that provides temporary care, upbringing, and rehabilitation in the foster family of a child who is in difficult life circumstances.
Guardianship/custody
Guardianship/custodity is a form of upbringing for children who have lost their parents or have been deprived of parental care.
Foster family
A foster family is when a regular family, or even one unmarried person, decides to accept into their family and raise one to four children who do not have parents.
Large foster family
Large foster families are created when a family or an independent person takes in five or more orphans and children deprived of parental care.
Care line
How can you welcome a child into your family?
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