This document discusses adoption, including what it is, different types of adoption, the process of adopting a child, who can adopt and who can be adopted. It defines adoption as permanently transferring parenting rights from original parents to adoptive parents. It outlines the 10 step process to adopt a child and eligibility requirements to adopt, which vary for convention countries versus non-convention countries. It also mentions requirements for post-adoption reports in some countries.

1. ADOPTION
By Lorena López & Bárbara Espinosa

2. WHAT IS AN ADOPTION?
 Process whereby a person assumes the
parenting for another and, in so doing,
permanently transfers all rights and
responsibilities from the original parent or parents.

3. TYPES OF ADOPTION
 Open adoption
 Close adoption
 Domestic adoption
 International adoption

4. PROCESS TO ADOPT A CHILD
 1. Learn about adoption
 2. Select an agency
 3. Complete a homestudy
 4. Search for a child
 5. Exchange informacion with child’s agency
 6. Learn that yopu have been selected for a child
 7. Meet and visit with the child
 8. Receive a placement
 9. Finalize your adoption
 10. Live as an adoptive family

5. WHO CAN ADOPT?
 To adopt a child of an other country you must:
 Be a citizen of that country.
 If you are not married , you must be 25 years old.
 If you are married, you must adopt the child joinly.
 You must meet certain requirements that will determine your
suitability as a prospective adoptive parent, including criminal
background checks, fingerprinting, and a home study.

6. WHO CAN BE ADOPT?
 Convention Countries
 The child is under 16, isn’t married and lives in a conventional
country
 The child's birth parents or other legal custodian, individuals, or
entities whose consent is necessary for adoption, freely gave their
written irrevocable consent to the termination of their legal
relationship with the child and to the child's emigration and adoption.
 If the child has two living birthparents who were the last legal
custodians who signed the irrevocable consent to adoption, they are
determined to be incapable of providing proper care for the child
 The child has been adopted or will be adopted in the Convention
country in accordance with the rules and procedures elaborated in
the Hague Adoption Convention and the Intercountry Adoption Act of
2000

7. WHO CAN BE ADOPT?
 Non-Convention Countries
 The child must have no parents
 The child has a sole or surviving parent who is unable to care for the
child and has, in writing, irrevocably released the child for emigration
and adoption.
 The child must be under the age of 16
 The adopting parents must have completed a full and final adoption
of the child or must have legal custody of the child for purposes of
emigration and adoption.

8. POST-ADOPTION
 Some countries have laws that require foreign adoptive
parents to report on the health and welfare of children they
have adopted, sometimes years after the adoption take place.
These reports are generally referred to as post-adoption
reports.

9. THE END