Help:Assertions of adoption

Ordinary family page connections are not a good way to indicate an adoptive relationship, because there are many situations where both birth and adoptive parents are known. This would also create ambiguity over what was a natural birth and what was an adoption.

Person pages already include "Adoption" as a fact type, which is the right way to indicate that person was adopted by another person or family. There is, however, no standard description. We would also like to have symmetric links between parties to an adoption, so that each refers to the other by way of an active link.

• On a family page - AdoptiveChild template as a description in an "Other" type fact. Takes name of child as a parameter.
• On a person page - AdoptiveParents template as a description in the "Adoption" type fact. Takes name of adoptive family page as a parameter.
• On a person page - AdoptiveParent template as a description in the "Adoption" type fact, if adoption by an individual.

Examples

• AdoptiveChild template on family page for adoptive parents, AdoptiveParents template used as Adoption fact description on Child's page (for example, Dorothy Arris by Henry and Dorothy Sanborn).