Through this process, birth parents choose and interview potential adoptive parents. After deciding on a couple to raise their child, they relinquish all legal, moral, and nurturing rights to the child. They still, however, have the option to remain in contact with the child and adoptive family. A family must pass many qualifications in order to become a potential adoptive family. Adoption agencies favor married adults age 30-40, with a solid income.
Single parents have a more difficult time adopting.
In any case, adoptive parents obtain the same legal rights that a biological family would have. Adoption is special because it involves a deliberate choice and an honest effort to create a home for a needy child. For birth parents not interested in continued contact or adoptive parents unwilling to allow contact, a closed adoption would be more appropriate. Usually, a closed adoption involves no contact whatsoever and the agency places the children instead of allowing the birth parents to choose a family. The birth mother doesn't even see her baby and therefore, doesn't have a chance to bond before the baby is adopted.