Open adoption is a form of adoption in which the biological and adoptive families have access to varying degrees of each other's personal information...

Adoption is a process whereby a person assumes the parenting of another, usually a child, from that person's biological or legal parent or parents. Legal...

parent at birth. Most adoptions in the US are adoptions by a step-parent. The second most common type is a foster care adoption. In those cases, the child...

Closed adoption (also called "confidential" adoption and sometimes "secret" adoption) is a process by which an infant is adopted by another family, and...

Whāngai adoption, often referred to simply as whāngai (literally, "to nourish"), is a traditional method of open adoption among the Māori people of New...

officially recommend the adoption of OpenDocuments within the government. As stated in version v3.0 of 2007: "Preferred adoption of Open Formats: e-PING defines...

Same-sex adoption is the adoption of children by same-sex couples. It may take the form of a joint adoption by the couple, or of the adoption by one partner...

adoption International adoption – International adoption (also referred to as intercountry adoption or transnational adoption) is a type of adoption in...

of adoption and several examples of adoption take place in the Hebrew Bible and texts from the Second Temple Judaism. The Hebrew word for adoption ‘אימוץ’...

The technology adoption lifecycle is a sociological model that describes the adoption or acceptance of a new product or innovation, according to the demographic...

Adoptionism, also called dynamic monarchianism, is an early Christian nontrinitarian theological doctrine, subsequently revived in various forms, which...

September 2006, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts announced its formal adoption of the OpenDocument standard for all Commonwealth entities. In February 2009...

varied by state. Some states granted full adoption rights to same-sex couples, while others banned same-sex adoption or only allowed one partner in a same-sex...

Christian Adoptions is a national, non-profit, Hague-accredited, pro-life licensed adoption agency that counsels pregnant women and arranges adoptions. They...

learning. One aspect of openness or "opening up" education is the development and adoption of open educational resources in support of open educational practices...

International adoption (also referred to as intercountry adoption or transnational adoption) is a type of adoption in which an individual or couple residing...

Linux adoption is the adoption of Linux computer operating systems (OS) by households, nonprofit organizations, businesses, and governments. Many factors...

widespread production, adoption and promotion of FOSS, with the former preferring to use the terms FLOSS, free or libre. "Free and open-source software" (FOSS)...

Islamic views on adoption are generally distinct from practices and customs of adoption in other non-Muslim parts of the world like Western or East Asian...

adoptions as local adoptions (placement within the country), and intercountry adoptions (adoption of children born overseas). Known child adoptions (adoption...

Pet adoption is the process of transferring responsibility for a pet that was previously owned by another party. Common sources for adoptable pets are...

His thesis at Yale, Mommy, I'm a Bastard! is a documentary about his open adoption and relationship with his birth mother. Barbakow found widespread critical...

Adoption in the Philippines is a process of granting social, emotional and legal family and kinship membership to an individual from the Philippines, usually...

private businesses. Generally, such adoption registries exist only in countries which practiced closed adoption, i.e. adoption in which the full identities of...

of all U.S. children. There are two forms of adoption: open adoptions and closed adoptions. Open adoption allows birth parents to know and have contact...

types of domestic adoption: independent and agency. An independent adoption is usually arranged by an attorney, with full openness in identities between...

Interracial adoption (historically referred to as transracial adoption) refers to the act of placing a child of one racial or ethnic group with adoptive...

when the adoption of the euro would be advantageous for us" and called for a referendum on euro adoption. Donald Tusk responded saying he was open to a referendum...

female who has become the child's parent through the legal process of adoption. A putative mother is a female whose biological relationship to a child...

family is a traditional nuclear family. There are many variants, such as adoption, shared parenting, stepfamilies, and LGBT parenting, over which there has...