Adoption is the legal process allowing children to join families different from their birth parents. It is a lifelong commitment to a child. In CPS cases, adoption becomes an option if CPS and the child’s birth parents cannot resolve the issues that made it unsafe for the child to live at home. If that happens, CPS may ask the court to end the parents’ rights to the child and permanently place the child with another family. A child can also become legally eligible for adoption if both birth parents give up their parental rights.
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