08-13-2006, 05:47 AM
Bismillah
as salam alykom
Children adoption is regulated in Islam:
1. You cannt give the child the father's name. In other words, the child has to remain his/her parents carrying the father's last name.
2. Thus, they cannt inherit.
3. when the child reaches puberty, they have to be moved to a different place where they dont have contact with the male or female spouse, in the evening and so. Because physically the child is not there's neither is he /she a brother/sister to their children which makes him/her not maharam. I mean if the child is a female, when she is matured, it will be haram for the man to look at her without being covered and vice versa the woman cannt be in contact with a matured male without being covered.
4. Also giving them the new name will strip them from their own identity which may cause a mixture of lineage. Like they can meet their own brothers and sisters without knowledge and marry for example.
Thus, they must be moved to a close area where the couple can constantly look after them, take care of their affairs, support them financilly, but they cannt continue living in the same place after pubery.
And Allah Knows best