Traditional Adoption Law and Legal Definition
Traditional Adoption is a term used often to refer to a domestic infant adoption in which confidentiality of the birthparents and the adoptive parents is preserved. It is equivalent to a closed adoption. These are the types of adoptions that have been arranged, mostly by agencies, since around 1920 in the United States. Traditional adoptions are usually contrasted to so-called open or direct placements, where birth mother and adopted family know who each other are.
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Related Legal Terms
- Abandonment [Intercountry Adoption]
- Accredited Agency [Adoption]
- Accredited Body [Adoption]
- Accrediting Entity [Adoption]
- Adoption
- Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System (AFCARS)
- Adoption and Safe Families Act (ASFA)
- Adoption Assistance and Child Welfare Act of 1980
- Adoption Disruption
- Adoption Dissolution
