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Adoption last forever.
At the finalization of an adoption a new birth certificate is issued, naming the adoptive parents as the legal parents of the child. Most adoption decrees contain the phrase "as if born to". Adopted children are considered exactly the same as natural children for all legal purposes for the rest of their lives.
