Pain of our time

To adopt or not?

    If adults decide to become parents for children living without them, they think about what variant is more comfortable for a child and also for them: custody, patronage or adopting. Of course, adopting is the priority form of arrangements for children living without their biological parents, but at the same time this form is the most responsible for adults because only they begin to take care about their adopted child.
    In Russia an adopted child is completely made equivalent to an own child if we speak about laws. On the one hand, new parents can give him/her another name and surname, change the date of his/her birth in the documents and they also have rights to keep in a secret if he/she was adopted. On the other hand, an adopted child loses all his/her benefits as an orphan from the state. Besides it, formalities are more difficult comparably with custody or patronage.