Classical Religious Perpsectives of Adoption Law

Abstract

Ancient1 and modern-day adoption statutes balance the interests of children, birth parents, adoptive parents, states, and countries. In the United States, adoption statutes were first passed in 1851,2 and earnestly revisited and revised following the “Baby Jessica” case in the early 1990s3 to reflect the need to obtain nonidentifying health information to be shared with prospective adoptive parents.4 The guiding legal principle of the