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2. Considering fostering or adoption in Illinois? Here’s what to ...

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   Here’s how to initiate the process to become a foster or adoptive parent and what to know about eligibility. An information hotline is available for those interested in adoption within Illinois.

3. Uniform Adoption Act - Wikipedia

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   The Uniform Adoption Act (1994) is a model law (uniform act) proposed by the U.S. Uniform Law Commission. It attempts to "be a comprehensive and uniform state adoption code that: is consistent with relevant federal constitutional and statutory law; delineates the legal requirements and consequences of different kinds of adoption

4. LGBTQ rights in Illinois - Wikipedia

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   The state permits adoption by gay individuals or partners, including second-parent adoptions. [40] In addition, lesbian couples have access to in vitro fertilization. State law recognizes the non-genetic, non-gestational mother as a legal parent to a child born via donor insemination, irrespective of the marital status of the parents. [41]

5. Same-sex adoption in the United States - Wikipedia

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   After Mississippi was the last state to overturn laws banning LGBTQ+ adoption and the federal marriage equality ruling in 2015, there are now protection rights for same-sex couples to adopt throughout the United States which has brought more acceptance and support for same-sex couples when adopting children. [5]

6. Adoption in the United States - Wikipedia

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   In the United States, adoption is the process of creating a legal parent–child 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 ...

7. 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 ...