Adoption (United States)
The adoption in the United States (from lat. Adoptio ) refers to the legal reasoning of a parent-child relationship between the adopter and the child regardless of the biological descent .
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When it comes to adoption in the United States , states have their own laws. Open adoption is common today . Efforts are being made in many states to end incognito adoption altogether. The pairing of adoptive parents (or the adoptive parent's part ) is usually placed through an adoption agency (non-profit or for-profit), whereby the wishes of the biological mother can often be taken into account via the general profile of the adoptive parents ( parent profile ).
Couples and individuals willing to adopt - with the nationwide marriage opening by the Supreme Court since 2015, including same-sex couples in all states - can find a child through an agency; however, foster children are also increasingly being adopted. In 2001 a total of 127,500 adoptions took place in the United States; a foster child was adopted in around 51,000 of these cases. The adoption of stepchildren is also widespread .
International adoptions are more common in the United States than in any other country. In 2005, 22,728 foreign orphans received a visa that allowed them to enter the United States to live with their future adoptive parents. These children came particularly frequently from the People's Republic of China (7,906 children), Russia (4,639), Guatemala (3,783), South Korea (1,630), Ukraine (821) and Kazakhstan (755). Non-black girls are more popular than black and boys.
