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Adoption in Ontario

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Ontario is making adoption possible for more children in Ontario by making adoption more flexible for children and friendlier for parents.  Find out how new reforms are improving the province's adoption system.

Adoption in Ontario can be carried out in four different ways, through:

• one of the children's aid societies in Ontario (generally involving Crown wards of the province who are available for adoption); or
   
• licensed private adoption agencies or individuals licensed (licensees) by the ministry (generally involving Ontario infants whose parents have decided that adoption is the best option for them); or
   
• licensed international adoption agencies (who are authorized to place children from many different countries); or
   
• the courts in the case of the adoption of Ontario children by their relatives or step-parents (note that "relative" is limited to the child's grandparent, great-uncle, great-aunt, uncle or aunt).

For More Information

For more Information on the Adoption Disclosure Register, contact:

Adoption Disclosure Register
2 Bloor Street West, 24th Floor
Toronto ON M7A 1E9
Tel: (416) 327-4730
Fax: (416) 327-0573

For confidentiality purposes, the Adoption Disclosure Register responds to e-mail inquiries by regular mail. In your e-mail inquiry, please include your mailing address and postal code.

If you prefer, please include your daytime telephone number, including area code.
E-mail: adoption.disclosure@css.gov.on.ca