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Adoption — For other uses, see Adoption (disambiguation). Sister Irene of New York Foundling Hospital with children. Sister Irene is among the pioneers of modern adoption, establishing a system to board out children rather than institutionalize them.… … Wikipedia
Adoption Information Disclosure Act — The Adoption Information Disclosure Act, formally An Act respecting the disclosure of information and records to adopted persons and birth parents, also known as Bill 183, is an Ontario law regarding the disclosure of information between parties… … Wikipedia
Adoption reunion registry — An adoption reunion registry is a formal mechanism through which adoptees and their birth families can attempt a reunion.Generally, such adoption registries exist only in countries which practise closed adoption , i.e. adoption in which the full… … Wikipedia
limited production-type item — An item under development, commercially available or available from other Government agencies, for which an urgent operational requirement exists and for which no other existing item is suitable. Such an item appears to fulfill an approved… … Military dictionary
Closed adoption — (also called confidential adoption and sometimes secret adoption) is the process by where an infant is adopted by another family, and the record of the biological parent(s) is kept sealed. (Often, the biological father is not recorded even on the … Wikipedia
LGBT adoption — refers to the adoption of children by lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgendered people.Legal status around the worldlegend|#cccccc|Unknown/AmbiguousAdoption by same sex couples is legal in Guam, Andorra, Belgium, Iceland, [… … Wikipedia
Disruption (adoption) — Disruption is the term most commonly used for ending an adoption. While technically an adoption is disrupted only when it is abandoned by the adopting parent or parents before it is legally completed (an adoption that is reversed after that point … Wikipedia
Big bang adoption — is the adoption type of the instant changeover, when everybody associated with the new system moves to the fully functioning new system on a given date (Eason, 1988).When a new system needs to be implemented in an organization, there are three… … Wikipedia
Domestic adoption — is the placing of a child within the same country as the child’s birth. This may be achieved through a private agency or the state, such as foster care. Contents 1 Domestic adoption 1.1 Open adoption 1.2 Confidential (a/k/a closed) adoption … Wikipedia
Utopia, Limited — Utopia Limited, or The Flowers of Progress , is a Savoy Opera, with music by Arthur Sullivan and libretto by W. S. Gilbert. It was the second to last of Gilbert and Sullivan s fourteen collaborations, premiering on 7 October 1893 for a run of 245 … Wikipedia
