Typically, step-parent adoptions require one year of marriage, or an in-home social study — which can be costly and time-consuming — to prove a spouse is fit to be a parent.

To add insult to injury, an adoption of this kind is often labeled a "stepparent adoption" or a "second parent adoption," depending upon which state you live in.

Not all children in shelters are up for adoption. And not every adoption story is a tragedy waiting to happen. In the wake of ...

JANESVILLE — Adoption Avenues, Inc. is hosting an Adoption 101 meeting on Saturday, July 12, at the Janesville office, located at 4465 Milton Ave., Suite 104. Cindy Jensen is facilitating ...

These include regular adoption for individuals who are adopting a child with no blood relation, relative adoption for those who are related within the fourth degree of consanguinity, stepparent ...

DESPITE a high demand for babies in Phoenix, the adoption rates remained low, particularly for black infants, with only three babies a year being placed by child welfare. Aroona Chetty, the ...

Foreign adoptions have declined dramatically in numbers since the introduction of the Adoption Act 2010 – the law strengthens the rights of the child and makes adoptions more transparent ...

India has seen a record number of child adoptions, 4,515 in FY 2024-25 -- the highest in the last 12 years, according to the Ministry of Women and Child Development. Of the total number, 4,155 ...

Kochi: The HC has held that a child's adoption by a stepparent cannot be permitted without the consent of the biological parent. Justice CD Dias made the remarks while dismissing a petition by the ...

The Kerala High Court has held that adoption of a child by his/her step-parent cannot be permitted as long as the biological parent does not give consent for the adoption. Justice C.S. Dias made ...

Mother also argues that the circuit court erred in finding that her consent to the stepparent adoption was not necessary under Code § 63.2-1202 (H), that it erred in failing to consider the best ...

Open adoptions allow contact between the birth parent, child, and adoptive parents. Closed adoptions, which are less common today, generally don't allow contact until the child turns 18.