Sir Edward was going to take me into his family.

Then this old man said he'd take me into his family.

One expresses thanks to a new wife for taking into her family a divorced man and his child by a previous marriage.

Adoption, in law, the act of taking a child of other parents into one's family as a son or daughter.

Richard acknowledged my boy for his, and took him into his own family.

Would such a man have taken a three-year-old enemy child into his family for reasons of love or compassion?

They were filled with joy at my arrival and took me into their small family.

My parents tried to find another match for me, but who would take into their family a broken piece of jade?

And from that hour, he took his mother into his family.

Adopt is to take into one's family (a child of other parents), especially by a formal legal act.