Wisconsin Administrative Code
Department of Children and Families
DCF 021-99 - Safety and Permanence
Chapter DCF 51 - Preadoption Training
Section DCF 51.02 - Definitions

(1) "Adoption" means a process provided by law to establish the legal relationship of parent and child between persons who do not have that relationship by birth, with the same mutual rights and obligations that exist between the child and the child's birth parents.

(2) "Adoption agency" means the department of children and families; a county department under s. 46.22 or 46.23, Stats.; a tribal child welfare department in this state; or a licensed child welfare agency with powers and duties under ss. 48.60 and 48.61(5) and (7), Stats.

(3) "Foster parent" means a person licensed under s. 48.62(1), Stats., and ch. DCF 56.

(4) "Preadoption training" means the preadoption preparation required under s. 48.84(1), (2), and (2g), Stats.

(5) "Proposed adoptive parent" means an individual that an adoption agency has identified as the prospective adoptive parent for a specific child.

(6) "Prospective adoptive parent" means an individual who is going through the process to become an adoptive parent for a child.