CONSTRUCTION OF PRIVATE INSTRUMENT'S WHERE ADOPTED CHILDREN ARE CONCERNED: I

Authors

J. Wesley Oler, Member of Pennsylvania and Philadelphia barsFollow

Abstract

The institution of adoption is of ancient tradition, knowing primitive origin and tracing its history through many civilizations. Today its universality still bespeaks the human needs from which it springs.

Recent growth of statutory reforms, procedural and substantive, in our adoption system reflects the increasing social interest of the state in this field. Procedurally, extensive strides have been made to safeguard those directly concerned in adoption, and through them to protect the public in general. Substantively the lagging but nonetheless noticeable trend is toward complete legal equivalence between relationship by adoption and relationship by blood. At present, however, such equivalence is far from attained.

Recommended Citation

J. W. Oler, CONSTRUCTION OF PRIVATE INSTRUMENT'S WHERE ADOPTED CHILDREN ARE CONCERNED: I, 43 Mich. L. Rev. 705 (1945).
Available at: https://repository.law.umich.edu/mlr/vol43/iss4/5