Rodney Atkins

I was a sickly baby, and after two sets of adoptive parents took me home, they returned me to the orphanage because of a serious respiratory infection. But as they say, the third time's a charm, because my mom and dad adopted me and took me into their home where I was raised in a family full of love.

American Musician

Kurt Eichenwald

All anti-abortion protesters should be presented, on the spot, with an application to sign up as foster parents. They should also be given the names of children in their area in need of adoptive parents. And if they won't sign or volunteer, they should shut up.

American Editor

Tom Junod

I am an adoptive parent. My wife and I adopted our daughter nine years ago. She was born in China. We have been her parents since she was nine and a half months old, and we don't know very much about her life before we first took her into our arms.

American Journalist

Jacob Anderson

Mum and I have always been close. Her adoptive parents died when she was 18, and she doesn't have any other kids, so I'm her only family. She lives life to the full, and I envy her vitality. She has pink hair and is a younger spirit than me.

British Actor

Pat Robertson

Adoptive parents are taking on enormous responsibility, both emotionally and financially. Quite frankly, they need as much disclosure as possible about the child's background and health to assure the best fit and be prepared.

American Clergyman

Katherine Heigl

My mother is a realist, and she's had biological and adoptive children, and she said it's no different: No matter what, they're putting a stranger into your arms. You don't know them yet.

American Actress

Michael Gove

Adopting means opening your home, and heart, to a life you've never known. But there is nothing as richly rewarding as being an adoptive parent.

British Politician

Dennis Cardoza

As an adoptive parent myself of foster children, I have seen firsthand the glaring problems of the system currently facing this Nation.

American Politician

Stewart Lee

I'm very grateful to my adoptive family. My mother sorted my life out.

English Comedian

Saroo Brierley

My adoptive mother always wanted to meet my biological mother.

Indian Businessman

Use 'adoptive' to emphasize the meaningful bond in relationships formed through adoption.

Close Connections

'Adoptive' hints at legal actions taken to form a familial bond, not just emotional commitment.

Legality Implied

'Adoptive' conveys that familial ties can be powerful and authentic without biological link.

Beyond Bloodlines

Indicates a chosen or assigned role, not by default but by action or decision.

Role Selection

'Adoptive' can suggest the role or behavior is not permanent but subject to change.

Temporary Nature

Often found in job or role descriptions where adaptability and assumed positions are involved.

Professional Contexts

 Some would argue that this love is instinctual, and they may be partially right. But, the argument fails to account for the equal amount of love that children adopted later in life hold for their adoptive parents. But the behaviorist argument can account for both accounts of love. A parent, biological or not,

Pavlovian reactions...

 upon being named his great-uncle’s adoptive son and heir. And he gained the title Augustus in 27 BCE when the Senate granted him additional honors. You mean when he established sole authority and became emperor of Rome. Is that bad? Didn’t every place have some king or emperor back then? Actually, your Honor,

History vs. Augustus -...

 or violent and so on. Until the studies are redone with adoptive children, who provide an environment but not genes to their kids, we have no way of knowing whether these conclusions are valid. The genetically controlled studies have some sobering results. Remember the Mallifert

Steven Pinker: Human...

 for transracial adoption. The hope is to help children and their adoptive parents better adapt to their unique racial and ethnic circumstances. There's more enculturation encouraged, that exposes children to the people, places, languages and culture of their birth families.

My story of love and...

 homes you were appointed a social worker the adoptive parents were lined up it was the primary purpose of the social worker the aim to get the woman at her most vulnerable time in her entire life to sign the adoption papers so the

A child of the state -...

 international adoption I'm just trying to show what other could care does whether it comes from adoptive parents or foster care or devoted caretakers in small group home adequate quality care it saves lives and here's some more

Neglect in child-care...

 You were appointed a social worker. The adoptive parents were lined up. It was the primary purpose of the social worker, the aim, to get the woman at her most vulnerable time in her entire life, to sign the adoption papers.

Lemn Sissay: A child of...

 dependent on his adoptive mother his real mother would keep her son within trunk reach in the shade of her body and she would feed him every half hour

Baby Elephant's Struggle...

 and sticking like glue to his neighbor and now adoptive mom Luigi being the tiniest the keepers all adore him

Getting Muddy PIPE Elephant...

 overcome her fears and learn to trust people in order to have a second chance at life in an adoptive home