adoptive
- Relates to someone who has taken the formal process to make someone else's child their own
- Pertains to an individual who has undergone a legal process to be regarded as the child of someone not their biological parent
- Relates to a phenomenon of embracing or accepting the words or actions of another as if they were your own
- Under an adoptive situation, Jane would become the legal parent of her stepdaughter.
- The adoptive bond between the parents and the child was always strong in their family.
- The adoptive nature of their relationship was evident in how she picked up on her mentor's habits and mannerisms.
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