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adoptionPermanent legal transfer of parental rights and duties from one person to another, usually to provide care for children who would otherwise lack family upbringing.
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| ``It's really frustrating for me as an adoptions coordinator
to see middle- and upper-class families not think about foster care
adoption when they begin to think about adopting. In 1998 Gibson helped
launch the Adoption Saturday project, which brings volunteer attorneys
and judges to court on Saturdays to finalize adoptions that have been
snaking their way through the system. Tebrake reported that the Society has a good record with adoptions
and that most of the adoptions through the society result in permanent
placements. |
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