The act of adopting, or state of being adopted; voluntary acceptance of a child of other parents to be the same as one's own child.

The way to become a parent-child relationship when you are not related by blood.

The creation of a new, permanent legal family for a child or youth. The adoption process involves the termination of the parents' rights and the creation of parental rights in a new caregiver(s). Adoptive families may or may not be related to the child or youth before the adoption. Adoptions must be approved by a judge and finalized in court.

Adoption is an ancient and honourable and universal means of creating families, providing for children without parents, and building community.

Admission to a more intimate relation; reception; as, the adoption of persons into hospitals or monasteries, or of one society into another.

The choosing and making that to be one's own which originally was not so; acceptance; as, the adoption of opinions.

A motion used to describe final action taken on all amendments and conference committee reports. Each house may adopt or refuse to adopt an amendment or report.

Approval or acceptance; usually applied to amendments, resolutions, or motions.

a gradual process

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is what the International Labour Conference does when it endorses, by a 2/3 majority vote, a new international labour standard. About the adoption process

The Committee of Ministers adopts Treaties, by a decision taken by a two-thirds majority of the Representatives casting a vote and a majority of the Representatives entitled to sit on the Committee. When adopted, the text of the treaty is definitive.

when states participating in the negotiation of a treaty agree on its final form and content. This usually occurs before signature.

the appropriation (of ideas or words etc) from another source; "the borrowing of ancient motifs was very apparent"

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