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": "assistant", "content": "Adoption is the process by which somebody takes legal ownership of a child."}, {"role": "user", "content": "I don't know a lot about how to go about the adoption process.  Can you tell me some about it?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "A couple or an individual can be at the helm of the process"}, {"role": "user", "content": "So they will allow individuals to adopt as well - would that be through a public or a private adoption?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "These changes are meant to have a permanent change in the parent and child's lives"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I would imagine so - so many kids in foster care these days due to parents that have no business having children."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "The modern adoption systems arose in the 20th century"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I would have thought it was older than that - do you know the percent of adoptions that are performed each year?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Apparently the code of Hammurabi even discusses adoptions"}, {"role": "user", "content": "What is that?"}]