0 the act of legally taking a child to be taken care of as your own: --
1 accepting or starting to use something new: --
Several suggestions have been offered for adoption by the panel.
2 choosing or taking something as your own: --
The adoption of a woman candidate was seen as controversial.
3 the act of taking another person's child legally into your family to raise as your own child: --
5 the process of starting to use a new method, system, law, etc.: --
One would not have a policy of seeking such adoptions.
Charging is permitted, so no local authority should be deterred by a lack of resources from undertaking work in connection with possible inter-country adoptions.
If this brings about successful adoptions and happy homes for children, what is wrong with it?
We must strike a balance between delay and rigour in national and intercountry adoptions.
There must be a level playing field and good practice in all adoptions.
Has he come across evidence of institutionalised prejudice in intercountry adoptions?
Although that does not involve large numbers, on average, five or six such adoptions take place every week.
Most intercountry adoptions go through the proper channels.
