Adoption Reversal

Related Terms

• Disruption
• Legal Risk Placement

Definition: Reclaiming of a child (originally voluntarily placed with adoptive parents) by birth parent(s) who have had a subsequent change of heart. State laws vary in defining time limits and circumstances under which a child may be reclaimed.

Related Resources:

Losing an Adoption
Resources for support and insight when an adoption falls through. Disruption, dissolution, and changes of adoption plans are addressed.

Risk in Adoption
The possibility a hoped-for adoption will not go through is a risk faced by most adopting parents. Learn about risk in adoption, what it means, and how to evaluate your own situation.

Source/Adapted from: National Adoption Information Clearinghouse

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