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

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

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

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

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

My adoptive parents gave me all of that and more.

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

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

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

As the kids learn English they start to tell their adoptive parents of the things that happened to them.