Adoption law creates the legal relationship of parent and child between persons who are not each other's biological parent or child. It is largely a product of state law.

Adoption laws vary from state to state. There are also different types of a legal adoption. But whether you decide go through an adoption agency or to adopt from a private person, a decree of adoption usually means that the legal relationship of the adopted child is completely severed with its biological parents and family.

For all legal purposes, adopted children become the children of their adoptive parents.

The concept of adoption and characteristics of a citizen according to the meaning of adoption is the adoption of other children as their own children, so the adopter and adoptee to establish the legal fiction of civil behavior of parent-child relationship. Adopted another child who was adopted, that parent; that the child or children for adoption given the parents, guardians and other social welfare agencies as Adopted person; adopted by others, the human person to be adopted. 2 features the establishment and termination of adoptive relationship with the natural genetically different, as a special legal relationship, legal adoption behavior has the following characteristics:  Adoption is a legal act of civil.

The fact that the reasons for adoption facts forming the formation of the general adoption of the following reasons: First, the traditional concepts, has been in use in ancient China's heirs behavior is not confirmed by the official, only "Private certificate" can be set up adoption behavior, the behavior and thus have become a habit; second, the lack of sound long-term adoption of laws and regulations. Founding of our country a long time since there has not been a systematic, comprehensive adoption law, citizens in the establishment of adoption, because no laws that in fact led to adopt an objective existence; third party legal concept is not strong as well as popularizing and propagating the formation of a lack of facts is an important reason for adoption.