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- From: peri@cco.caltech.edu (Michal Leah Peri)
- Newsgroups: soc.men,alt.abortion.inequity,alt.dads-rights
- Subject: Re: adoption rules
- Date: 21 Jan 1993 20:08:36 GMT
- Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
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- rlt@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (r l taylor) writes:
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- >In article <1jkvmeINNkjs@gap.caltech.edu> peri@cco.caltech.edu (Michal Leah Peri) writes:
- >>rlt@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (r l taylor) writes:
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- >>>How much time is/should be allowed between the birth of the child, and
- >>>the adoption
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- >>in CA, 6 months.
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- >What is the intent of this time period? I have always understood it to be
- >a "trial period" during which the state can evaluate whether the adoption
- >is acceptable; nowhere have I heard it suggested that it is to give the
- >father time to track down his child. Am I correct in this assumption?
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- My understanding is that this period is to allow the parents to re-consider
- whether they really want to give up the child. During the 6 months either
- biological parent can demand the child back.
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- -- Michal
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