What is "adoption"?

What is "adoption"?

Jennifer Perry (Executive Director, Children's Action Network) gives expert video advice on: Who can adopt a child?; What would make me ineligible to adopt a child?; Which is adopted more - boys or girls? and more...

From a legal standpoint, adoption is the transfer of parental rights from biological parents to the adoptive parents, who assume all financial, legal and other responsibilities for the child. Really adoption is so much more than that. You can't reduce it to a piece of paper or legal terms because it's about individuals connecting and growing together. Adoption is the wonderful, joyous, unpredictable process of creating a family.