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

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

• 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.

• 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.

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

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

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

• 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.

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

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