What are the Advantages of Cooperative Adoption?
Because termination of parental rights can be voluntary, the child can more easily proceed from foster care to a permanent home through adoption. Birth parents can give up parental rights knowing that they will not be completely cut off from their child for life. Prospective adoptive parents can more quickly and easily achieve the adoption of the child they have chosen to adopt. In short, cooperative adoption can benefit children and prospective adoptive parents by moving children more quickly from out-of-home placement to a permanent home.