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"Our children are not ours because they share our genesÂ… they are ours because we have had the audacity to envision them" (http://www.karensadoptionlinks.com/inspirat.html). Adoption affects people in a profound way, showing love and affection to the ones who need it the most. A staggering amount of couples want to show this affection; "in 1992, the last year for which total adoption statistics were available, 127,441 children of all races and nationalities were adopted in the United States" (Pertman, 2000).Often a husband and wife jointly adopt a child or children and thus become the legal parents of this child who is not theirs naturally. However after an adoption, for legal purposes, adoptive parents are viewed as if they were the natural parents of the adoptive child. Among other things, this means they assume all legal responsibilities that a natural parent normally has for their child, including duties of physical care and financial support and may inherit from each other......

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