f. adoptive mother
Person who has become the child's parent through the legal process of adoption.
A person who adopts a child of other parents as his or her own child.
1One adoptive parent has spoken of the support she received while going through the process.
2For every adoptive parent who knows the true heart-hunger.
3Again, the Chinese gentlemen allege that if the adoptive parent or master does not do his duty the actual parents have their remedy.
4Representative David Meeks, himself an adoptive parent and an author of the new law, said what happened to the older sister was deeply disturbing.
5In childhood, adoptive parents provided information about abuse and neglect before adoption.
6She poses the question of whether adoptive parents should assess one another.
7And so are their respective natural or adoptive parents, grandparents, and relatives.
8He was born in Ghana and raised in England by adoptive parents.
9Emily didn't dare tell Carolyn about the struggle to choose adoptive parents.
10Their situation reflects a quandary faced by adoptive parents across the United States.
11Once the child is born, welfare services will place it with adoptive parents.
12Adoptive parents can also have any medical expenses associated with the adoption reimbursed.
13Scott, born Luann Bambrough, was raised in Utah by adoptive parents.
14My adoptive parents died and I searched for her, finally tracking her down.
15Realistically assessing the support structures adoptive parents have established is also vital, says Beckett.
16Like Catholic Charities, they have separate case managers for birth parents and adoptive parents.
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