3. Federal and State
Adoption in the United States is unique in that each state has its own laws. The Constitution does not grant the fundamental right to adopt, but the federal government does have a statute in place called the Uniform Adoption Act. This states that any person can adopt and create the legal relationship of parent and minor child.
States vary when it comes to qualifications for adoptive parents, but a lot of them use the Uniform Adoption Act as the basis of their laws.
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