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Adoption is legally analyzed in its social, cultural, religious and political implications, providing a position on reality in public policies, rights and constitutional guarantees in Panama, the rules of the Political Constitution of the Republic of Panama are specified, the Law No. 46 of July 17, 2013 General Adoptions of the Republic of Panama, the Family Code Law No. 3 of May 17, 1994, among others that regulate the adoption of children and adolescents (NNA ), the position on the best interests of the child, and the right to have a family (heterosexual and biologically stable, through judicial procedures including family placement); in order to analyze the various effects that said family legal institution (adoption) entails in children and adolescents when they are adopted by individuals individually or jointly.