title: Adoption (disambiguation)
text: # 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
  