adoptive

Long ago, they took the family name of their adoptive parents.

I was brought up by adoptive parents as an only child.

As adoptive parents know, the process is long and can be difficult.

Perhaps there, his adoptive mother says, the children got attention.

Both adoptive parents died when he was still a young man.

My adoptive parents gave me all of that and more.

She spent the rest of the war going from one adoptive home to another.

He'd been an only child, his adoptive parents had told him.

He is the adoptive son of the school's former head teacher.

Let's get children out of care and into adoptive families.

The current average adoptive age is about 20-30 years old.

"One of the guys was like an adoptive father to him."

I give thanks every day for the life that my two adoptive parents have given me.

Some go on to speak with or meet the adoptive family and child.

According to a 2006 report, adoptive parents may be either single or married.

In the end they all left for the island, because the first boy wanted to meet with his adoptive parents.

We and thousands of adoptive parents can see this every day.

The child never saw or spoke with his adoptive parents again.

He was left alone to raise their adoptive son John.

Eight years later the woman who had raised him as an adoptive mother died.

If I became your adoptive son, my parents would immediately fall on hard times.

Her adoptive father said he wanted a boy, but the doctor told him it was a girl or nothing.

She left me with my adoptive mother and just disappeared.

Her child's adoptive parents could offer him many opportunities, she felt.

It's a subject no one ever wants to talk about, particularly adoptive families.