LEGAL ADOPTION. Potential adoptive parents attend the Adoption and Foster Care Forum initiated by the DSWD Field Office VI as part of its continuous advocacy to childless couples and those who want to adopt a child to undergo legal process. Melin Gerona, Social Welfare Officer II, said they are encouraging those who want to foster abandoned and neglected children to attend the forum. “Even single individuals can adopt a child as long as there is a mother and father figure in the family that the adopted child can look up to like his/her own parents,” Gerona said./dswd6