Adopt
Adopt is a verb with several related senses. In its primary sense, to adopt means to legally take another person's child and raise them as one's own, creating a permanent parent-child relationship. This typically requires a formal legal process in which parental rights are terminated or suspended and adopted parents are granted full legal custody. In many jurisdictions the process includes a home study, background checks, consent from birth parents, and a court order. Adoption may result in changes to the adoptee's legal identity, such as a new surname or birth certificate.
A second sense is to accept or choose to follow something, such as adopting a policy, practice,
Open adoption refers to a relationship where some level of contact or information about birth relatives is
Etymology: adopt comes from Late Latin adoptare, from Latin adoptus, meaning to choose for oneself. The term