Consent is essential to the process of adoption in so many ways. If you wish to adopt a child in Kansas, you should be aware of the many ways in which consent is involved in the adoption process. Consent plays a role in all kinds of adoptions, including domestic adoptions, international adoptions, grandparent adoptions, and stepparent adoptions, except for those adoptions which follow the involuntary termination of the parental rights of one or both of a child