World Adoption Day is observed each year on November 9. The initiative began in the United States in 2014 to raise awareness about adoption and to raise funds for families involved in the process. In Argentina, the Civil and Commercial Code defines adoption as a legal institution whose purpose is to protect the right of children and adolescents to live and develop in a family that provides the care necessary to meet their emotional and material needs when those needs cannot be met by their birth family. Children who become adoptable have typically suffered violations of their rights that led to separation from their family of origin. While the state evaluates and attempts to restore those rights, the child may be placed in state care or in transitional families. If all strategies fail, the child’s adoptability is declared and the
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