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The 36 pages that link to Adoption, each with the reason it gives.

• Attachment theoryRelated: Adoption raises practical questions about forming secure bonds after changes in caregiving.

• KinshipRelated: Adoption can establish recognized kin ties independently of biological descent.

• GenealogyCompared with: It shows why genealogical accounts may need to distinguish legal, social, and biological relationships.

• FamilyRelated: Adoption creates recognized family ties independent of biological parenthood.

• Family lawRelated: Adoption creates parentage through a court-supervised legal process.

• Assisted reproductive technologyCompared with: It can build a family without fertility treatment or pregnancy.

• Child custodyCompared with: Adoption changes legal parentage; custody usually allocates care without ending parentage.

• PatrilinealityRelated: Adoption can establish lineage membership where descent is otherwise traced through fathers.

• Doctrine of LapseCompared with: Adopted sons could inherit under Indian practices, while the Company sometimes denied their political succession.

• Foster careCompared with: Unlike foster care, adoption creates a permanent legal family relationship.

• Parental responsibilityRelated: Adoption generally reallocates parental duties and decision-making to the adoptive parents.

• Best interests of the childRelated: Adoption decisions assess whether a proposed placement will meet the child’s needs over time.

• Child welfareRelated: It can provide permanent family care when reunification with birth parents is not possible.

• Chosen familyCompared with: Adoption creates legal kinship, unlike chosen family relationships that need not involve formal status.

• Kinship terminologyRelated: Adoption shows how kin terms can classify relationships beyond biological descent.

• Name changeRelated: Adoption can change a child's legal name along with their family relationships.

• Kinship careCompared with: Unlike many kinship arrangements, adoption permanently transfers legal parenthood.

• FatherRelated: Adoption can make a man the child's legal and social father.

• StepfamilyCompared with: Unlike stepfamily status alone, adoption can create a legal parent-child relationship.

• SurnameRelated: Adoption may change a child's surname and its legal family associations.

• Descent groupRelated: Adoption shows that socially recognized group membership need not depend on biological ancestry.

• Reproductive technologiesCompared with: It forms a family without using a medical method to create a pregnancy.

• SurrogacyCompared with: Adoption transfers legal parenthood; surrogacy arranges pregnancy for intended parents.

• AntinatalismRelated: It offers a way to raise children without creating a new person through procreation.

• Fictive kinshipCompared with: Adoption creates legal kinship, whereas fictive kinship does not require legal status.

• OrphanageRelated: Adoption can provide a permanent family for some children who cannot return to their birth parents.

• StepmotherRelated: Adoption distinguishes a legal mother from a stepmother who has not adopted the child.

• ChildlessnessRelated: Adoption offers a route to parenthood that does not require biological conception.

• ConcubinageRelated: Adoption sometimes provided a route to secure family standing for children born to concubines.

• Jane RussellNarrower topic: Russell’s adoption advocacy grew from her own experience and became a major part of her later public work.

• StepfatherRelated: Adoption can make a partner a legal parent rather than a stepfather alone.

• DisownmentCompared with: Adoption can change legal family ties; a private act of disownment generally cannot.

• Mother (family)Related: Adoption establishes motherhood without giving birth.

• Niece and nephewRelated: An adopted sibling’s child is commonly treated as a niece or nephew within the family.

• Parent-in-lawRelated: An adopted person's spouse can have parents-in-law through the adopted family relationship.

• Pearl S. BuckNarrower topic: Buck’s advocacy helped expand adoption options for children excluded by racial and social prejudice.