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  2. Second-parent adoption - Wikipedia

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    The second-parent adoption or co-parent adoption is a process by which a partner, who is not biologically related to the child, can adopt their partner's biological or adoptive child without terminating the first legal parent's rights. This process is of interest to many couples, as legal parenthood allows the parent's partner to do things such ...

  3. Adoption in the United States - Wikipedia

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    In the United States, adoption is the process of creating a legal parentchild relationship between a child and a parent who was not automatically recognized as the child's parent at birth. Most adoptions in the US are adoptions by a step-parent. The second most common type is a foster care adoption. In those cases, the child is unable to ...

  4. Adoption law - Wikipedia

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    National, or domestic, adoption laws deal with issues such as step-parent adoption, adoption by cohabitees, adoption by single parents and LGBT adoption. [1] Adoption laws in some countries may be affected by religious considerations such as adoption in Islam.

  5. Legality of incest in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Actor is the victim's "natural or adoptive parent, step-parent guardian, custodian, or person in loco parentis of the other person". Sexual conduct 2y to 8y [58] Oklahoma: Persons within degrees of consanguinity which make a marriage incestuous and void. Marriage, fornication, adultery Up to 10y [59] Oregon

  6. Joint custody (United States) - Wikipedia

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    These advocates include non-custodial mothers and fathers; grandparents, step-parents and other family members of non-custodial parents; [36] children's rights advocates; [37] family court reform advocates who see sole custody as a disruptive practice pitting one parent against the other; [38] mental health professionals who consider joint ...

  7. These step parents stepped up. Watch their kids ask to make ...

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    Armando Garza from Edinburg, Texas, has loved his stepson Ayden since the boy was 10 months old. One Christmas, Ayden was excited to reward his unofficial stepdad who'd been there for him all ...

  8. Stepchild - Wikipedia

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    A stepchild is the offspring of one's spouse, but not one's own offspring, either biologically or through adoption. Stepchildren can come into a family in a variety of ways. A stepchild may be the child of one's spouse from a previous relationship, or alternatively, be the result of an adoption, in which case the child would have no biological ...

  9. Adoption - Wikipedia

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    A common example of this is a "step-parent adoption", where the new partner of a parent legally adopts a child from the parent's previous relationship. Intra-family adoption can also occur through surrender, as a result of parental death, or when the child cannot otherwise be cared for and a family member agrees to take over.