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