CHAN

Interim Decision #1488 MATTER Or CHAR In ViSEI, Petition Proceedings . A.--13924709 Decided by Board chow - 16, 1965 . Since acts of human kindness referable to an undertaking to rear and educate a helpless child do not alone prove an agreement to adopt nor is standing in boo parentis the equivalent of adoption, the mere 'fact that the petition- ing grandfather may have stood in taco parentis to the beneficiary grandson, following the death of the latter's father in China when the benefielary was only 17 months of age, is insufficient 'to effect adoption in accordance with the applicable…