Meanings of adoptive child in English

Diori is not biologically related to those she impacts-yetthey are still her adoptive children.

The film Philomena is encouraging parents and adoptive children to find each other, according to campaigners.

Not only natural children are subject, as we said, to paternal power, but also adoptive children.

In respect of adoptive children we have introduced a distinction, which is explained in our constitution on adoptions.

Historically, Mella said, there has been a preference for giving adoptive children homes in nuclear families where the parents are husband and wife.

As news of the campaign spread, hundreds of adoptive children and mothers who suspected they had been fooled by doctors and nuns joined in.

8 An adoptive child is in most respects in the same position, as regards the father, as a natural child born in lawful wedlock.