Regulation .01 Purpose.

Effect a permanent plan through private legal adoption as quickly as possible for a child in out-of-home placement who cannot, or should not, be reunited with the child's birth parents;

Protect children from unnecessary separation from birth parents;

Provide the child with an adoptive setting which will ensure the child's safety and well-being;

Assure adoption of a child by qualified individuals;

Protect the confidentiality of the adoption process;

Arrange, as appropriate, the exchange of identifying information among an adoptee, birth parents, and birth siblings who register their consent with the Registry;

Assure that a child adopted in a foreign country is protected in Maryland and that the foreign country's laws, customs, expectations, and requests are, as far as is legally and practically possible, honored in Maryland; and

Assure potential adoptive parents that the agency will: