Adoption Center

The Adoption Center is a temporary home for abandoned baby penguins in CP.

History Before the Adoption Center was opened, baby penguins were left in the Pet Shop. The need for a different location became apparent when people working in the pet shop became annoyed by babies. The adoption center was opened on Christmas Day 2008 as a Christmas present to baby penguins.

Function The Adoption Center is a temporary home for penguins under 10 years old. Children can be dropped of at the adoption center by birth parents, but some careless parents leave their children on the street. The adoption center operates a team of 5 individuals to travel around Club Penguin and bring any abandoned babies and children to the adoption center. At the adoption center, children are cared for and educated (if they are old enough) by staff. Couples or individual adult penguins wanting to adopt a child may go to the adoption center and adopt up to five children.

Child Abuse Most children at the adoption center are left by poor, young or simply careless parents, however, on occasion a parent penguin will hurt and abuse her children. In this case, PSA agents will often send these children to the adoption center. Abused children are kept in a special wing of the center until they are sufficiently rehabilitated, and may not be put up for adoption until they have lived six months to two years (depending on age and the amount of the abuse) at the adoption center. Parents seeking to adopt abused children must pass a special test and are monitored by the center for the first two months of living with the child.

The Center The adoption center has 14 rooms: a front office, a room for adoptive parents to interact with prospective adoptees, a room for baby penguins (up to 18 months), a room for toddlers to stay in during the day, a room for penguins age 4-10 to stay during the day, a cafeteria, a girls' dormitory, a boys' dormitory, three school rooms (one for penguins age 3-5, one for 6-7, and one for 8-10), an infirmary, a room for abused children, and a room for adult penguins living at the adoption center.