Adoption (disambiguation)
# Adoption (disambiguation)

Adoption usually refers to the legal act of permanently placing a child with a relative or non-biological (adoptive) parents other than the biological (natural) parents.

Adoption may also refer to:

* Adoption (theology), admission of believers into the family of God
* Pet adoption, the process of taking ownership of and responsibility for a pet for which a previous owner has abdicated responsibility
* Adoption (software implementation), the transfer from an old software system to a new one in an organization
* Adoption (farming and cattle raising)
* Treaty adoption
* Adoption (film), a 1975 Hungarian film
* L'adoption or Adoption, a 1979 French film starring Geraldine Chaplin
* Adopted (film), a 2009 American film
