Citizenship Rights of the Adopted Child in Iran

Child adoption in Iran has always been directly related with the religious beliefs of the society and has had a particular importance since the ancient times up to now. According to the civil law of the society, those children are competent to be adopted whose parents are not identifiable and they cannot return to the warm bosom of their families. One of the most significant and first rights of the orphans and the children suffering from bad parenting as a citizen is their identification and giving their custody and tutelage to individuals who are materially and spiritually competent to protect these children. These children either do not have any parents or their parents are not known or are not competent enough to raise the child. Thus, judicial authorities under the supervision of social institutions give their protectorship to individuals or families whose competency has been already proven based on the social rules and laws. In this study using a descriptive-analytic method we have conducted a research on the citizenship rights of the orphans and the children who are suffering from bad parenting as well as the obligations and duties of the society and child adopters on them according to the legal codes of Iran and Islam resorting to the existing databases and library documents.