Definition of adoptee
:one who is adopted
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For a company that relies, in part, on converting young adoptees into lifetime users, a teen exodus could create a demographic time bomb.
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By this time, the sisters were using techniques developed by Moore and others to help adoptees try to find relatives in a vast universe of strangers' spit.
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This year, legislators passed a bill that would enable some adoptees to more easily obtain those records.
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Keisler is an adoptee who doesn’t know anything about his biological parents’ families while Richmond said her parents are slim, The State reported.
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McPherson was raised as one of five adoptees in a white family home in Sturgis, South Dakota.
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One recent case widely reported on involved an adoptee named Adam Crapser.
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Deportation cases like Crapser's have spurred adoptee advocates to fight for changes to a law called the Child Citizenship Act.
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If the law is passed, Connecticut would become the tenth state to have unrestricted access for adult adoptees.
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First Known Use of adoptee
1849
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