Adoption law

Short description: Law relating to adoption

Adoption application forms.

Adoption law is the generic area of legal theory, policy making, legal practice and legal studies relating to law on adoption.

## Contents

* 1 National adoption laws
* 1.1 Specific laws
* 2 Intercountry adoption laws
* 3 References

## National adoption laws

National, or domestic, adoption laws deal with issues such as step-parent adoption, adoption by cohabitees, adoption by single parents and LGBT adoption.[1] Adoption laws in some countries may be affected by religious considerations such as adoption in Islam.

### Specific laws

Laws vary widely from country to country and in the likes of United States, from state to state.

## Intercountry adoption laws

Main article: Social:International adoption

Intercountry adoption laws vary widely.[2]

## References

1. ↑ J. H. M. van Erp, Lars Peter Wunibald van Vliet Netherlands Reports to the Seventeenth International ... 2006 - Page 100 "... legal rules applying to adoption (step-parent adoption, adoption by cohabitees, adoption by single parents and same-sex parents) as well as with regard to the nature of adoption (intercountry adoption versus national adoption).... "
2. ↑ Cynthia R. Mabry, Lisa Kelly Adoption Law: Theory, Policy and Practice -- 2006 - Page 459 "Some prospective adoptive parents choose certain countries because the country's adoption laws are more favorable to foreign adopters. Other prospective parents choose a particular country because more infants are available immediately."

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Adoption and foster care

Adoption by country|

* Australia
* France
* Guatemala
* Italy
* Philippines
* United States
* South Korea

Foster care by country|

* Australia
* Canada
* United Kingdom
* United States

Issues|

* Adopted child syndrome
* Adoption disclosure
* Adoption home study
* Adoption reunion registry
* Adoption tax credit
* Aging out
* Child abuse
* Trafficking of children § Adoption
* Child laundering
* Political abuse of psychiatry
* Closed adoption
* Cultural variations in adoption
* Disruption
* Genealogical bewilderment
* International adoption
* Interracial adoption
* Language of adoption
* LGBT adoption
* Open adoption
* Sealed birth records
* History of children in the military

Laws|

* Access to Adoption Records Act (Ontario)
* Adoption Information Disclosure Act (Ontario)
* Adoption and Safe Families Act (US)
* Christian law of adoption (India)
* Dima Yakovlev Law (Russia)
* Foster Care Independence Act (US)
* Hague Adoption Convention
* Hindu Adoptions and Maintenance Act (India)
* Islamic adoptional jurisprudence
* Putative father registry (US)
* Uniform Adoption Act (US)

History|

* Adoption in ancient Rome
* Fosterage

Controversial violations of rights
in adoption or child custody|

* List of international adoption scandals
* Present-day United States
* Pre-1978 United States
* Tennessee Children's Home Society
* Cambodia
* Russia
* Baby Scoop Era
* Sixties Scoop
* Home Children
* Romania
* Missionaries of Charity, Jharkhand
* Michael A. Hess
* Vincent Nichols § Acknowledgement of adoption controversy
* Forced adoption in Australia
* Forced adoption in the United Kingdom
* Operation Condor in Argentina
* Dirty War era Argentina
* Devshirme
* Kidnapping of children by Nazi Germany
* Tianjin Massacre
* Mortara case
* Postremo mense
* Salzburg Protestants § Defereggen Valley expulsion

Historical criticism of orphanages|

* Orphanage § Criticism
* Duplessis Orphans
* St. Thomas-St. Vincent Orphanage § Sexual and physical abuse
* Abuse scandal in the Sisters of Mercy § Other abuse allegations
* Mount Cashel Orphanage
* Clontarf Aboriginal College § Allegations of abuse
* Mary Norris
* St. John's Orphanage
* Roman Catholic Diocese of Burlington § History
* Sisters of Nazareth § Child abuse
* Daughters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul § Allegations of child abuse in Scotland

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Lists of countries by laws and law enforcement rankings

Age of|

* Consent
* Legal candidacy for political office
* Criminal responsibility
* Legal drinking
* Legal driving
* Majority
* Legal marriage
* Retirement age
* Mandatory retirement
* School-leaving age
* Legal smoking
* Voting
* Suffrage
* Youth suffrage
* Working age

Drugs|

* Drug and precursor laws by country or territory
* Psychedelics
* Amanita mushroom
* Legality
* Ayahuasca
* Legality
* Cannabis
* Legality
* annual use
* lifetime use
* Ibogaine
* Legality
* LSD
* Legality
* Psilocybin mushroom
* Legality
* Salvia divinorum
* Legality

* Other
* Alcohol
* Legality of moonshine by country or territory
* Alcohol consumption
* Alcohol law
* Bath salts
* Legal status of Mephedrone
* Legal status of MPDV
* Legal status of Methylone
* Cocaine use
* Legality
* Methamphetamine
* Legality
* Opiate use

Death|

* Legality of euthanasia
* Homicide
* by decade
* Law enforcement killings
* Legality of suicide
* Legality of assisted suicide

Guns|

* Deaths
* Ownership
* Laws

Punishment|

* Corporal punishment
* At home
* At school
* In court
* Death penalty
* Incarceration
* Life imprisonment

Obscenity|

* Incest
* Laws
* Pornography
* Child pornography
* Simulated child pornography
* Drawn pornography depicting minors
* Internet pornography
* Prostitution
* Sexual assault
* Child sexual abuse
* Rape
* Sodomy law
* Sex trafficking
* Zoophilia

Reproduction|

* Abortion law
* Minors and abortion
* Adoption law
* International adoption
* Human cloning
* Surrogacy

Censorship|

* Censorship by country
* Book censorship
* by country
* Film censorship
* by country
* Internet censorship
* by country
* Cartographic censorship
* Political censorship
* Video gaming censorship
* by country

Human rights|

* Children's rights
* Children in the military
* Intersex rights
* LGBT rights
* Slavery
* Human trafficking

Freedom of movement|

* by country
* In the air
* Abode

Property and
Environmental|

* Air
* Estate
* Land
* Minerals
* Mining
* Mortgage
* Water
* Riparian water

Business|

* Corporate
* Corporate liability
* Competition
* Mergers and acquisitions
* Monopoly
* Legality of bitcoin by country or territory

International
ownership|

* International waters
* Sea law
* Maritime law
* Antarctic Treaty System

Other|

* Animal rights
* Immigration law
* National legal systems
* Police brutality
* Prisoner abuse
* Religious law
* Separation of church and state
* Sharia
* Size of police forces
* World Justice Project

* List of international rankings
* List of top international rankings by country
* Lists by country

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