The General Assembly finds that the policies and procedures of this subtitle are desirable and socially necessary. The purposes of this subtitle are to: timely provide permanent and safe homes for children consistent with their best interests; protect children from unnecessary separation from their parents; ensure adoption only by individuals fit for the responsibility; protect parents from making hurried or ill-considered agreements to terminate parental rights; protect prospective adoptive parents by providing them information about prospective adoptees and their backgrounds; and protect adoptive parents from a future disturbance of their relationship with adoptees by former parents.