Document Type

Book Chapter

Publication Date

4-25-2025

Keywords

adoption kinship network, adoption triad, adoptive families, birth families, birth parents, legal transfer, parental rights

Disciplines

Developmental Psychology

Abstract

Adoption is the legal transfer of parental rights and responsibilities over the care of a child from the birth parents to other adult(s), who will then raise the child. The adoption of children by non-biologically-related adults has a long and complicated history in both the United States and around the world. Over time awareness of adopted individuals, adoptive families, and birth parents and families has increased; all three groups known as the adoption triad, or adoption kinship network.

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