{"id":209,"date":"2013-12-10T20:10:06","date_gmt":"2013-12-10T20:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/help-a-child.com\/?page_id=209"},"modified":"2025-09-03T09:53:36","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T13:53:36","slug":"what-is-adoption-and-when-can-a-child-be-adopted","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/help-a-child.com\/?page_id=209","title":{"rendered":"What is adoption and when can a child be adopted?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2022 Adoption is a life-long commitment to a child by legally becoming their parent.<br \/>\n\u2022 The agency must first be granted permanent custody of the child by Juvenile Court. This occurs once it is determined by the court that reunification efforts have failed and that it would not be in the best interest of the child to be reunited with their biological parents.<br \/>\n\u2022 An adoptive family may be a relative, a foster parent, or another family who is approved and licensed to adopt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2022 Adoption is a life-long commitment to a child by legally becoming their parent. \u2022 The agency must first be granted permanent custody of the child by Juvenile Court. This occurs once it is determined by the court that reunification efforts have failed and that it would not be in the best interest of the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"http:\/\/help-a-child.com\/?page_id=209\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-209","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","nodate","item-wrap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/help-a-child.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/help-a-child.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/help-a-child.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/help-a-child.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/help-a-child.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=209"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/help-a-child.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":210,"href":"http:\/\/help-a-child.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/209\/revisions\/210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/help-a-child.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}