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Adoption
Adoption is the legal procedure by which the "birth parent" (or parents) give up their child to "adoptive parents". Once the adoption is final, the child no longer has a parent-child relationship with the birth parents, but only with the adoptive parents.
May birth parents revoke consent to adoption? May children learn who their birth parents are? Do birth parents have any visitation rights?
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