The truth is, adoption is not necessary to provide care. In the U.S., permanent legal guardianship provides all the same legal rights and responsibilities entailed by adoption. In addition, it allows displaced persons to maintain their original legal identity. This eliminates repurcussive "inconveniences", such as not being able to get a passport from the country one was born in and is a legal citizen of, because your "legal birth certificate" was issued more than one year after your birth. One has the right to one's correct identity, whether one grows up with one's biological family or someone else. Adoption allows, nay, encourages, adopters to falsify adoptees' birth certificates, listing themselves as one's biological parents, changing location and sibling information, sometimes even changing one's birthday. The original, accurate document is thereafter sealed and cannot be viewed without a court order. If your child rearing desires are in