 “Adoption is a way of providing new

families for children who cannot be

brought up by their biological parents.
 It is a legal procedure in which all
parental responsibility is transferred to the
adopters.”

"Introduction to Adoption." What Is Adoption? N.p., n.d. Web. 18 Mar. 2015.

 1) Infertility and medical reasons
 2) Single
 3) Same sex marriage
 4) Humanitarian Cause
 1) to control population explosion
 2) to save a life of a child
 Islam does not recognize the term
Adoption.
 A child does not take the family’s name
of the non-biological parents.
 Instead, either “Fostering” or “Legal
guardianship” are used.
 There won’t be any confusion of
bloodlines and inheritance.
 By law, all adoptive parents must be
Muslims.
 No residency requirements.
 Age requirements: The husband must be
between 35 and 55 years of age and the
wife must be between 30 and 50 years of
age.
 Marriage requirements: Prospective
adoptive parents must be married for
five or more years. Single people cannot
"adopt" children in Jordan.
 Other requirements: Parents must be
medically certified as infertile.
 If the parents have one child already,
then the adopted Jordanian child must
be of the same sex.
 Parents who have previously adopted in
Jordan must wait a minimum of two
years before adopting another child of
the same sex from Jordan.
 They are sent to hospitals for medical
checkups before being given a name
and official documents.
 The Civil Status Bureau (CSB) chooses the
first 4 names of the child without a
surname.
 A birth certificate and a national number
starting with 2000 are issued.
 Children of unknown identity are
automatically considered Muslim, and
Christian parents are not allowed to raise
them.
 Anyone can adopt in India
› A resident Indian
› Non resident Indian
› A foreign citizen (according to the laws of
their country)
› A single female ( unmarried, widowed or
divorced)
› Married couple
 The adoptive parent is allowed to ask for
a child characteristics and according to
their preferences ( age, gender, skin
color, religion and health condition)
 Parents are not permitted to adopt more
than one child of the same sex
 Until the 1850s, transferring children to
new parents were done informally in
which most of them were adopted for
economic reasons.
 In 1851, adoption statutes and legal
procedures were enacted in
Massachusetts.
 Both biological child and adopted child
are equal; in all the responsibilities,
inheritance and legal rights.
 International adoption is also called
intercountry adoption, or transnational
adoption.
 It’s the process by which you adopt a child
from a country other than yours and bring
him/her to live with you permanently.
 There shouldn’t be any differences in status
and relationship between the child by birth
and the adopted child to the adoptive
parents.