The natural parent give the adoptive parents full rights and responsibilities of the child and relinquishes all rights of their own.
They are my adoptive parents.
The parents of adopted children are adoptive parents.
But I have never actively thought of it as such and I love my adoptive parents.
The conference was of benefit to orphanage directors and adoptive parents alike.
It would not occur to many to defend the exclusion of black adoptive parents, for example.
Undoing the damage may require extra effort on the part of adoptive parents, as well as unconditional love.
Hill was brought up by her adoptive parents, and her music hobby was encouraged from her childhood.
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Raised by adoptive parents who did not graduate from college, Jobs tinkered with electronics at a young age with his father, who worked as a mechanic and carpenter.
In international adoption, a buffer of distance, language, culture, and class exists between the adoptive parents and the birth parents, and, to be honest, that was one of the things I liked about it.
