What is adoption?
What is adoption?
Adoption is a family for a child forever.
An adopted child becomes a member of the new family the same way as a biological one, with the equal rights and duties.
Family environment is the very place that creates the sense of safety, trust and love for a child.
It is the only form of care that guarantees the child stable and permanent family support.
Юридичні мініфакти про усиновлення:
a child becomes a son or a daughter of adopting parents after the court decision on adoption enters into force
a child is adopted with the daughter’s or son’s rights, and the legal status is the same as the one of blood (biological) children
adoption is carried out for an indefinite period
Who can adopt?
Adopting parents can be adults who are aware of all the responsibility associated with their intention. They need to prove their physical, emotional and financial capacity for accepting the new child in their family.
Who cannot adopt?
Those with health issues, financial instability, 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 adopting parents. At least one of such factors can cause denial of adoption.
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 adopt a child
into your family:
All this makes it possible to protect the child from growing up in an institutional facility.
Foster care of a child
Foster families are a professional comprehensive service that provides temporary care, education and rehabilitation in the family of a foster carer of a child who is in difficult life circumstances.
Guardianship/custody
Guardianship is a form of raising children who have lost their parents or were deprived of parental care.
Adoptive family
An adoptive family is when an ordinary family or even a single person who is not married decides to take in and raise from one to four children who do not have parents.
Large adoptive family (family-type children’s home, FTCH)
Large adoptive families are created when a family or an independent person takes in five or more orphans and children deprived of parental care.
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