In superman comics, how is it possible for the kents to adopt clark?

I was thinking about this...



They found a baby in the rocketship and took the child for their own. But in terms of the real world... how can someone adopt a random baby? Don't they need to find out the parents first? I mean, if you apply the adoption laws of real life in to the superman comics. How can the kents legally adopt clark?In superman comics, how is it possible for the kents to adopt clark?Anything is possible in a fantasy. Its in the power of the author.In superman comics, how is it possible for the kents to adopt clark?
Well, the first comic book came out in the '30s and there was probably less documentation and such back then.In superman comics, how is it possible for the kents to adopt clark?This guy flies, has x-ray vision and bullets bounce off of him, and you find the adoption premise hard to believe?In superman comics, how is it possible for the kents to adopt clark?
You've uncovered the great tragic secret of the Kents - they took in an UNDOCUMENTED ALIEN!

They hoped to conceal the fact until he grew up to Presdent. But things worked out a little differently.

Seriously, tho, they were a small-farm family, How could they hope to build a rocket ship back to Krypton to find his parents? They may not have known his parents died in the planetary explosion, but must have assumed there was a good reason he was sent there all alone, like Moses.In superman comics, how is it possible for the kents to adopt clark?As cited, you need to consider the original Story dates back to the 30's -- as I recall the details were only actually hammered out in the 40's -- but even then if Superman was about 30 years old in the 'present' he'd have been found in the 19-teens



I know that as of 86's Man of Steel origin story they actually passed him off as their biological child... claiming he was born before/during a major Blizzard that kept them isolated for months and they'd just not announced the pregnancy due to past issues -- for an 86 present that puts his 'birth' in late 50's



Lois and Clark had his arrival in 66... and I believe that they state the Kents were on a waiting list, so that when they found him, it was fast tracked... no doubt the rural nature of 1960's Smallville added some familiarity between them and the agency



Smallville cites his arrival in 1989 at 3 years old.. and they also reveal later in back story that Lional Luthor helps them process the paperwork via a Adoption Agency that only existed on paperIn superman comics, how is it possible for the kents to adopt clark?
Superman came out in the 30s

Back then orphanages were overflowing with children and there were perfectly healthy babies going unadopted ... the reason older children were adopted was to work for their new "parents" on farms or to do other chores.

There wasn't much in the way of paperwork for a baby they "found on their doorsteps" Everyone would be more than happy to see a baby taken in instead of taking another bed in an orphanage.
It's because comic books operate under a different set of rules than actual human beings.