adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
adoptive parents (= the people who take someone else's child into their home and legally become his or her parents )
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Adoptive parents often have little practical preparation for parenthood.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
family
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Their dilemmas are similar to those of many adoptive families but are exacerbated by the racial and ethnic issues already discussed.
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She was left thinking how hard he was driving himself for the sake of his adoptive family .
parent
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I was brought up by adoptive parents as an only child.
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The incidence of schizophrenia in the adoptive parents has little influence.
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Well, the time went on, and eventually they approved us as adoptive parents , and that was that.
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Polreis' case has attracted attention among support networks for adoptive parents of troubled foreign children.
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The adoptive parents had made no comments to suggest that they realized the children were unhappy.
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I believe a great deal of advice is available to adoptive parents these days.
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Disputes between natural and adoptive parents are not unusual and a fair proportion of arrangements break down.
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Neither of the adoptive parents in these cases felt threatened by the contacts.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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I believe a great deal of advice is available to adoptive parents these days.
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In 1952 I was sent to a local convent school until I was eleven, although my adoptive parents were Protestants.
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Neither of the adoptive parents in these cases felt threatened by the contacts.
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Polreis' case has attracted attention among support networks for adoptive parents of troubled foreign children.
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Second, whether adoptive parents could be found who are willing to take on this new challenge.
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She was left thinking how hard he was driving himself for the sake of his adoptive family.
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The adoptive parents had made no comments to suggest that they realized the children were unhappy.
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Well, the time went on, and eventually they approved us as adoptive parents, and that was that.