Known child adoption

Identifying and definitional attributes
Metadata item type:	Glossary Item
METEOR identifier:	749082
Registration status:	Children and Families, Standard 03/11/2021
Definition:	An adoption of a child/children who were born or permanently residing in Australia before the adoption, who have a pre-existing relationship with the adoptive parent(s) and who are generally not able to be adopted by anyone other than the adoptive parent(s). These types of adoptions are broken down into the following categories, depending on the child’s relationship to the adoptive parent(s): step-parent, relative(s), carer and other.

Source and reference attributes
Submitting organisation:	Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Relational attributes
Related metadata references:	Supersedes Known adoption Children and Families, Superseded 03/11/2021 See also Known child intercountry adoption Children and Families, Standard 03/11/2021
Metadata items which use this glossary item:	Adoption 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 Adoption type code N Children and Families, Standard 03/11/2021 Adoptions DSS 2020-21 Children and Families, Standard 03/11/2021 Adoptive parent Children and Families, Standard 03/11/2021 Step-parent Children and Families, Standard 03/11/2021