An even closer analogy is the human urge to adopt a child.

Now, I have been wanting for a long time to adopt a child--

There were those who suggested that we were too young to adopt a child.

Maybe Susie and Boy will adopt a child, she says.

But, well, it's very unusual, shall we say, for a 'cat to adopt a child.

Joe and Clarissa, having been separated by the stress, are reconciled and adopt a child.

My purpose was to adopt a child that should be born of my own body!

Presently in Germany gay marriage is not allowed and gay couples cannot jointly adopt a child.

He wants to adopt a child or hire a surrogate, and I'm not ready for that.

They adopt a child that looks like themselves.

It can take years to formally adopt a child in poor countries with cumbersome, overburdened legal systems.

And throughout the developed world there are hundreds of thousands of people desperately wanting to adopt a child.

Four years ago, Halla put in a bid to adopt a child, backed up by her twin sister.

Her recent novel, A Part of Me, tells the story of a couple trying to adopt a child.

Just as if we should adopt a child it would be a wholly gracious act on our part.

Writer relates the case history of a couple who adopt a child from Vladivostock...