§ 48-3-233.  General adoption information.

Within a reasonable time before an agency places a minor for adoption with a prospective adoptive parent, the agency shall provide or cause to be provided to the prospective adoptive parent general adoption information. The information shall address all of the following:

(1) Possible physical, mental, emotional, and behavioral issues concerning all of the following:

a. Identity, loss, and trauma that a minor might experience before, during, or after adoption.

b. A minor leaving familiar ties and surroundings.

(2) The effect that access to resources, including health insurance, may have on the ability of an adoptive parent to meet the needs of a minor.

(3) Causes of disruption of an adoptive placement or dissolution of an adoption and resources available to help avoid disruption or dissolution.

(4) Criminal prohibitions under G.S. 14-321.2.  (2025-25, s. 46(a).)