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adoptive parent

NOUN
  1. a person who adopts a child of other parents as his or her own child

How To Use adoptive parent In A Sentence

  • She decided to search for her biological mother after her adoptive parents died.
  • His adoptive parents were solicitors from Leicestershire. Times, Sunday Times
  • Finally the ‘deceased wife's sister’ law was belatedly reformed in 1906, although marriage between such affines as adoptive parents and children, and adoptive siblings, remained within the prohibited degrees.
  • The incidence of schizophrenia in the adoptive parents has little influence.
  • An adopted child is deemed to be a descendent of his adoptive parent or parents.
  • I do, however, note that the evidence is that the child is adoptable and that there would be no difficulty in finding appropriate adoptive parents.
  • Other groups fear any long-term clampdown will consign countless children to lives in institutions or on the street, rather than in the loving homes of adoptive parents. The News Tribune Blogs
  • I am very lucky, I never felt really different being a fat girl with multiracial brothers and immigrant adoptive parents.
  • Obviously it is easier on the child and adoptive parents if the child is adopted at an early age.
  • Polreis' case has attracted attention among support networks for adoptive parents of troubled foreign children.
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