Terms Adoption is the permanent, legal transfer of all parental rights from one person or couple to another person or couple. Adoptive parents have the same rights and responsibilities as parents whose children are born to them.
Adoptive parents are real parents.
There are two common kinds of adoption. One involves relatives, usually stepparents, adopting the child or children of the person they are married to. The other involves adopting a child or children who are unrelated to the adopting parents.