Adoption is first and foremost about what is best for the child/children involved. In all too many relationships involving a divorce or a failed relationship the child or children have been abandoned by the absent birth parent: no communication, no support, no contact. Most children are not old enough to fully comprehend what an adoption truly means except all children want and crave belonging and being a complete and irrevocable part of the family unit. All children need to know they belong and they are loved, without condition, by their parents.