0 the woman who gave birth to a child or the man who helped to conceive a child (= cause a baby to begin to form), although she or he may not now be the child's legal parent --
Although the child had been placed with a foster family, the investigation of her birth parents was continuing.
Apart from 458 children reunited with their birth parents, domestic families adopted 3,627 of them.
Private agency adoptions involving newborns usually involve direct contact between birth parent(s) and the adoptive family, as in independent adoption.
The postadoption agreement shall be applicable only to a birth parent who is a party to the agreement.
A stepparent adoption can still occur if the other birth parent refuses to give consent or can not be located.
Adoption legally constitutes a child the son or daughter of a person that is not that child's birth parent.
Where a step-parent adopts, we propose to end the anomaly that the birth parent in the new marriage is obliged to adopt his or her own child.
Many children have remained in care or have been moved from foster home to foster home because the birth parent found it too difficult to let go.
