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  • An individual who has been adopted.
  • The legal transfer of all parental rights and obligations from one person or couple to another person or couple; the legal act of placing a child with a parent or parents other than their birth parent and raising the child as their own.
  • Collection of case-level information from state and tribal title IV-E agencies on all children in foster care and those who have been adopted with title IV-E agency involvement.” http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/cb/resource/
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  • Collection of case-level information from state and tribal title IV-E agencies on all children in foster care and those who have been adopted with title IV-E agency involvement.” http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/cb/resource/
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  • Federal legislation passed in 1997 that reforms adoption practices.  Adoption and Safe Families act of 1997 (In Acts, Laws, and Bulletins)