Illinois Adoption Act - 750 ILCS 50, Section 15

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The welfare of the child shall be the prime consideration in all adoption proceedings. The court in entering a judgment of adoption shall, whenever possible, give custody through adoption to a petitioner or petitioners of the same religious belief as that of the child.

(Source: P.A. 84-452.)

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