i was adopted.
[{"role": "system", "content": "Adoption is a process whereby a person assumes the parenting of another, usually a child, from that person's biological or legal parent or parents, and, in so doing, permanently transfers all rights and responsibilities, along with filiation, from the biological parent or parents. Adoption can be done by a couple or an individual person but children have to be 14 years younger and the adoptive parents can not have been legally incapacitated. Unlike guardianship or other systems designed for the care of the young, adoption is intended to effect a permanent change in status and as such requires societal recognition, either through legal or religious sanction. Historically, some societies have enacted specific laws governing adoption; where others have tried to achieve adoption through less formal means, notably via contracts that specified inheritance rights and parental responsibilities without an accompanying transfer of filiation. Modern systems of adoption, arising in the 20th century, tend to be governed by comprehensive statutes and regulations. While the modern form of adoption emerged in the United States, forms of the practice appeared throughout history. The Code of Hammurabi, for example, details the rights of adopters and the responsibilities of adopted individuals at length.\n"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "We have a couple that we know that just adopted a child."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Yeah? That must be nice! Are they excited about it?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I think they are just relieved at this point - it's such an undertaking to permanently transfer all the rights and responsibilities from the biological parents to the adoptive parents."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Yes I can't imagine. It must be hard for the kids real parents. "}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "With modern adoption now they are so governed by statues and regulations to protect both sides.  The biological parents of this particular child were drug abusers."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Oh no. Do you know if the kid had any health problems because of this?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Not so far thankfully, but you never know what may come out later - it was a public adoption so the child was definitely in need of a permanent loving home.  I guess you just love and pray that it all works out."}, {"role": "user", "content": "That's great. I am glad there are services like this in place instead of the old orphanages. "}]