·
Private domestic adoption.
Under
this arrangement, Charities and other profit organizations act as
intermediaries, bringing together prospective adoptive parents and families who
went to place a child, all parties being resident of the same
Country
united for example, namely 45% of adoptions are estimated to have occurred
through private arrangement.
·
Foster care adoption
This
is a type of domestic adoption where a child is initially placed in public
care.
·
International adoption:
Involves the placing of a child for
adoption outside the child’-s country of birth. This ca occur through both public
and private agencies. The laws of
different countries vary in their willingness to allow international adoption.
·
Embryo adoption:
Based
on the donation or embryos remaining after one couple’s in vitro fertilization
treatments have been completed, embryos are given to another individual or
couple, followed by the placement embryos into the recipient woman’s uterus to
facilitate pregnancy and childbirth
·
Common law adoption:
This
is an adoption which has not been recognized before hand by the courts, but
where a parent, without resort to any formal legal process leaves his or her
children with a friend or relative for an extended period of time confirm
(Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia internet explorer, 2008)