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Adoption is permanently placing a person under the age of 18 with a parent or parents other than the birth parents in the United States. ==Overview== Adoptions in the United States may be either domestic or from another country. Domestic adoptions can be arranged either through a state agency, an adoption agency, or independently.〔Adopting in America: How To Adopt Within One Year, by Randall Hicks, WordSlinger Press 2005〕 Adoption agencies must be licensed by the state in which they operate.〔http://www.adoption101.com/agency_adoption.html〕 The U.S. government maintains a website, (Child Welfare Information Gateway ), which lists each state's licensed agencies. There are both private and public adoption agencies. Private adoption agencies often focus on infant adoptions, while public adoption agencies typically help find homes for waiting children, many of them presently in foster care and in need of a permanent loving home.〔ADOPTION: The Essential Guide to Adopting Quickly and Safely, by Randall Hicks, Perigee Press 2007〕 To assist in the adoption of waiting children, there is a U.S. government-affiliated website, AdoptUSKids.org, assisting in sharing information about these children with potential adoptive parents.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Adopt US Kids )〕 The North American Council on Adoptable Children provides information on financial assistance to adoptive parents (called adoption subsidies) when adopting a child with special needs.〔http://www.nacac.org/adoptionsubsidy/adoptionsubsidy.html〕 Independent adoptions are usually arranged by attorneys and typically involve newborn children. Approximately 55% of all U.S. newborn adoptions are completed via independent adoption.〔(Independent adoptions )〕 The 2000 census was the first census in which adoption statistics were collected. The estimated number of children adopted in the year 2000 was slightly over 128,000, bringing the total U.S. population of adopted children to 2,058,915.〔https://www.census.gov/prod/2003pubs/censr-6.pdf〕 In 2008 the number of children adopted increased to nearly 136,000.〔http://www.childwelfare.gov/pubs/adopted0708.pdf#Page=26&view=Fit〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Adoption in the United States」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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