This document discusses adoption in Ethiopia. It defines adoption as a legal act that permanently places a child with parents other than their birth parents, severing the parental rights and responsibilities of the biological parents and placing them with the adoptive parents. According to Ethiopian family law, adoption is an agreement created between a person and child or orphanage and child. The law sets various requirements for adoption, including the adopter being at least 25 years old and the adoptee being under 18 years of age. Additionally, the Ethiopian court must approve the adoption agreement for it to have legal effect.

1. ADOPTION
MSc Maternity & RH Track
Semarya Berhe( MSc, BSc, RN, PhD Fellow)
ASST. Professor, AAU
April 2023

2. ADOPTION
 Legal act of permanently placing a child with a
parent or parents other than the birth parents.
 Results in the severing of the parental
responsibilities and rights of the biological parents
and the placing of those responsibilities and rights
onto the adoptive parents.
 After the finalization of an adoption, there is
generally no legal difference between biological and
adopted children, though in some jurisdictions,
some exceptions may apply.
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3. ADOPTION
 According to Ethiopian family law Adoption can be
described as an agreement that may be created
between a person and a child or between
government or private orphanages and the adopted
child.
 This idea can be found at Article 180 and 192 of
The Ethiopian Family Code stated respectively.
 As per the Ethiopian law of adoption the adopter is
required to fulfill various requirements
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4. REQUIREMENTS
 Vary from Ethiopian Adopters and foreigner Adopters.
 One of such requirements is the age of the adopter and
the adoptee.
 According to the Ethiopian Family Law the adopter must
attain the age of 25 years to adopt a child.
 The age of the adoptee, any child whose age is less
than 18 years and under guardianship may be adopted
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5. CONT.
 According to the Ethiopian family law, the other
basic requirement for an adoption agreement to be
legally acceptable is the decision of the court
validating the agreement.
 According to Article 194(1) of the Ethiopian Family
Code, unless the Ethiopian Federal First Instance
courts approve the adoption agreement, the
adoption agreement will not have any legal effect.
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