adoptive parent
noun
: one's parent by adoption : a parent who has adopted a child
She is their adopted daughter, which makes them her adoptive parents.
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Slice's new book, Unfit Parent: A Disabled Mother Challenges An Inaccessible World, chronicles her experiences as a parent with a disability, first as an adoptive parent and then as a biological parent via gestational surrogacy.
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Mara Gordon, NPR, 31 May 2025
Still grieving the loss of his parents, Elio has trouble fitting in socially with the other kids on the Air Force base, while his aunt has difficulty coping with her new role as an adoptive parent.
—Bill Desowitz, IndieWire, 27 May 2025
To learn more about becoming a foster or adoptive parent, visit the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services website at dcfs.illinois.gov.
—The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 3 Feb. 2025
Gradually Roz starts building relationships with the animals on the island, including a clever fox voiced by Pedro Pascal, and becomes the adoptive parent of an orphaned gosling named Brightbill voiced by Kit Connor.
—Denise Petski, Deadline, 3 Jan. 2025
Nearby is a century-spanning conversation of weaving practices, featuring a knit woven by Carver, who learned the craft from his adoptive parent Mariah Watkins, beside Diedrick Brackens’s tapestry opening tombs beneath the heart (2018).
—Evan Nicole Brown, ARTnews.com, 20 Dec. 2024
In the pic, Roz is shipwrecked on an uninhabited island and must learn to adapt to the harsh surroundings, gradually building relationships with the animals on the island and becoming the adoptive parent of an orphaned gosling.
—Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 24 Sep. 2024
That way, the human being growing inside her gets to live life and an adoptive parent gets a child to raise.
—Letters To The Editor, Orlando Sentinel, 23 June 2024
For the 2024-2025 form, anyone who needs to provide information, such as the student’s spouse, biological or adoptive parent, or the parent’s spouse, must have an individual FSA ID.
—TIME, 5 Jan. 2024
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Mara Gordon, NPR, 31 May 2025
Still grieving the loss of his parents, Elio has trouble fitting in socially with the other kids on the Air Force base, while his aunt has difficulty coping with her new role as an adoptive parent.
—Bill Desowitz, IndieWire, 27 May 2025
To learn more about becoming a foster or adoptive parent, visit the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services website at dcfs.illinois.gov.
—The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 3 Feb. 2025
Gradually Roz starts building relationships with the animals on the island, including a clever fox voiced by Pedro Pascal, and becomes the adoptive parent of an orphaned gosling named Brightbill voiced by Kit Connor.
—Denise Petski, Deadline, 3 Jan. 2025
Nearby is a century-spanning conversation of weaving practices, featuring a knit woven by Carver, who learned the craft from his adoptive parent Mariah Watkins, beside Diedrick Brackens’s tapestry opening tombs beneath the heart (2018).
—Evan Nicole Brown, ARTnews.com, 20 Dec. 2024
In the pic, Roz is shipwrecked on an uninhabited island and must learn to adapt to the harsh surroundings, gradually building relationships with the animals on the island and becoming the adoptive parent of an orphaned gosling.
—Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 24 Sep. 2024
That way, the human being growing inside her gets to live life and an adoptive parent gets a child to raise.
—Letters To The Editor, Orlando Sentinel, 23 June 2024
For the 2024-2025 form, anyone who needs to provide information, such as the student’s spouse, biological or adoptive parent, or the parent’s spouse, must have an individual FSA ID.
—TIME, 5 Jan. 2024
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