For many nationalists on the other hand, the adoption of a conciliatory approach to the "hereditary enemy" involved too sharp a deviation from traditional thinking.

As such, adoption involves the rights of three distinct "triad members": the birth parents, the child, and the adoptive parents.

These international adoptions involve two trips: one for prospective parents to meet the baby, the second for them to carry the baby home.

The previous adoption took over a decade, involved several acts of Congress and multiple lawsuits, and stirred up great controversy.

Closed adoption involved the sealing of the record of adoption.

Because adoptions by stepmothers rarely involve name changes, this is seldom an issue for their children, he said.

Whoever handles them, adoptions in the over-$50,000 range almost always involve American-born white infants.

I know that adoption at present involves a lot of bureaucracy, and it is good that the bureaucracy can be eased in this way.

But although we agree on the substance of the proposal, we must realize that its adoption would involve the ACP in the procedure itself.

His designs were commended, but were not selected on account of the expense their adoption would have involved.