i am 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": "user", "content": "My parents are in the process of adopting a little boy from Jamaica."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Are they having trouble with the system? There are specific laws governing adoption so it may be hard."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Yes it's been a long three year process."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "What type of requirements must your parents meet? I know in general adoptive parents need to meet requirements of the country they're adopting from."}, {"role": "user", "content": "I don't know the specifics to be honest. The situation is unique, it so happens the little brother my parents are trying to adopt is already part of our family he is my cousin."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Oh so I am assuming you guys are going through the traditional approach of a closed adoption?"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Yes, it's hard because it's a third world country and there isn't a lawyer involved."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Is the government involved at all? Is the child in foster care?"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Yes the court system is involved/"}]