The change ended a long policy that permitted agencies to control child relinquishments and international adoptions.

这一变化结束了一项长期以来允许机构控制儿童遗弃和国际收养的政策。

Those laws let adoption agencies get around widely accepted child relinquishment practices.

这些法律允许收养机构避开被广泛接受的遗弃儿童的做法。

For life is a paradox: it enjoins us to cling to its many gifts even while it ordains their eventual relinquishment.

它一面告诫我们珍惜它所赐予的诸多恩惠，一面又注定最终将其全部收回。