The ADOPT Act of 2025 aims to criminalize unlawful adoption practices.
The Adoption Deserves Oversight, Protection, and Transparency Act of 2025, or ADOPT Act of 2025, seeks to protect individuals and families involved in private domestic interstate adoptions from exploitation by unlicensed adoption intermediaries. It criminalizes unlawful adoption practices, including knowingly placing adoption advertisements, providing adoption intermediary services, and making unauthorized payments to placing parents. Exceptions are made for public and private licensed child-placing agencies, attorneys, and certain accredited adoption service providers.
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