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Parenting
Relating to the process of raising a child from infancy to adulthood.
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finalization
Parenting; Adoption
The point in time when the court grants the Petition to Adopt of the adoptive parents and takes the necessary action to formally make the child a legal member of their family.
domestic adoption
Parenting; Adoption
An adoption that involves adoptive parents and a child that are citizens and residents of the United States.
disruption
Parenting; Adoption
This term generally refers to an adoption that for some reason has not become final, even though the adoptive parents were identified as the parents to adopt the child and the ...
disclosure
Parenting; Adoption
The release or transmittal of previously hidden, confidential or unknown information.
decree of adoption
Parenting; Adoption
The document that a judge signs to finalize an adoption. It formally creates the parent-child relationship between the adoptive parents and the adopted child, as though the child ...
confidential adoptions
Parenting; Adoption
A more modern and more positive term that is used to describe what has been traditionally called "closed adoptions. "
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- Adoption (504)
- Birth control (7537)
- Child care (41)
- Child rearing (292)
- Childbirth (66)
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