What is Adoption?
Formal adoption is the legal transfer of parental rights and responsibilities from the biological parents to the adoptive parents.
Adoption occurs in every community, race, culture and socio-economic status. There will ALWAYS be certain children whose biological parents cannot provide care for them. Thus these children are cared for by other people, sometimes through formal adoption and sometimes through informal adoption arrangements. Adoption exists everywhere!
Adoption can be a good resolution to some untimely or unplanned pregnancies because it provides a stable environment from the very beginning. We are all aware of situations where children have not been given this benefit. Stability from the start helps to create the foundation that is imperative for a healthy, happy childhood that leads to becoming productive citizens.