closed adoption

Definition of "closed adoption"
  1. An adoption process where all records are sealed and complete privacy is maintained
How to use "closed adoption" in a sentence
  1. Due to their personal reasons, the birth parents chose a closed adoption for their child.
  2. Closed adoption doesn't allow any future contact between the birth parents and the adopted child.
  3. In a closed adoption, even the basic information of adoptive parents is kept confidential from the birth parents.

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