Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Glossary Item |
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METEOR identifier: | 327208 |
Registration status: | Children and Families, Standard 22/11/2016 Community Services (retired), Standard 01/03/2005 Disability, Standard 13/08/2015 Health, Standard 01/03/2005 Indigenous, Standard 16/09/2014 |
Definition: | Adoption is the legal process by which a person legally becomes a child of the adoptive parents and legally ceases to be a child of his/her existing parents. |
Context: | Children and family services. |