f. adopted daughter
Person who has become the parents' child through the legal process of adoption.
1 Diori is not biologically related to those she impacts-yetthey are still her adoptive children .
2 The film Philomena is encouraging parents and adoptive children to find each other, according to campaigners.
3 Not only natural children are subject, as we said, to paternal power, but also adoptive children .
4 In respect of adoptive children we have introduced a distinction, which is explained in our constitution on adoptions.
5 Historically, Mella said, there has been a preference for giving adoptive children homes in nuclear families where the parents are husband and wife.
6 As news of the campaign spread, hundreds of adoptive children and mothers who suspected they had been fooled by doctors and nuns joined in.
7 8 An adoptive child is in most respects in the same position, as regards the father, as a natural child born in lawful wedlock.
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