The phrase "adoption before" is not correct and lacks clarity in written English.
It may be intended to refer to a process or event that occurs prior to adoption, but it needs additional context to be meaningful.
Example: "The committee discussed the necessary steps for adoption before finalizing the policy."
Alternatives: "prior to adoption" or "before the adoption process".
Although they had never discussed adoption before, he said in an interview, she told him that the boy, Rath Chan, looked just like him.
In cases of adoption, before the new law, only one of the partners could legally adopt, thus leaving the other partner in legal limbo.
The couple will also meet US consular officials, who will review the adoption before issuing a passport.
To prevent adoption failures, it has adoption-preservation programs, which tries to salvage an adoption before it breaks down.
As an occasional bushwalker I find the idea interesting, but it would need widespread adoption before it became more useful than checking in personally at a national parks office or police station.
He also learned that he was briefly given up for adoption, before his mother had a change of heart and took him back to live with her and her parents.
The child spent her first five years in an orphanage and was later adopted by two families who ended the adoptions before Ms. McDaniels, who lives in western Massachusetts, and her husband adopted her.
My mother, who has a penchant for tangents, got sidetracked by a lengthy explanation of black-market adoptions before reassuring me that that was not how I'd been acquired.
Once you decide you want to adopt her, pretend to sign adoption papers before picking up the child and taking her home in a fancy mode of transportation, such as a fuzzy stroller or a limo.
In adoption parlance, before "birth mother" became the conventional and widely used term, the biological mother was referred to as the "natural mother".
The couple flew to California to meet her when she was 2 days old, then flew to Houston and on to San Antonio to complete adoption formalities before returning to New York through Houston.
