Definition of adoptee
: one who is adopted
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MyHeritage, an Israeli genealogy company, is donating 15,000 DNA kits to adoptees seeking their biological parents as part of an initiative called DNA Quest.
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Previously, most adoptees would not be able to see those records unless the birth parent had given consent for that information to be released.
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On Thursday, MyHeritage offered 5,000 testing kits as an extension of their pro bono initiative to reunite adoptees with their biological families.
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But there just wasn’t as much awareness about the importance of preserving an adoptee’s culture.
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For the first time, adoptees could learn the names of birth parents.
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Playing football is a dream Brown has pursued since watching his older brother, an adoptee from Haiti, excel in the sport in Texas.
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On Friday, Iran's foreign minister, Javad Zarif, doubled down on Iran's right to enrich uranium, even as the country seeks a path to maintain the nuclear deal with the other adoptees.
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Carroll, herself an adoptee, incisively looks at the many dimensions of the characters —particularly the mother's blindness to privilege — that Alam sets up to tell this multifacted story.
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