adopting parent

collocation in English

meaningsofadoptandparent

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adopt
verb
uk
/əˈdɒpt/us
/əˈdɑːpt/
to legally take another person's child into your own family and take care of him or her as your ...
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parent
noun[C]
uk
/ˈpeə.rənt/us
/ˈper.ənt/
a mother or father of a person or an animal, or someone who looks after a person in the same way that a ...
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(Definition ofadoptandparentfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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If the employee is subsequently not put on the register, it can cause difficulties in the workplace for the potentialadoptingparent.
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It says nothing about the possible marriage of anadoptingparentand an adopted child.
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Theadoptingparentought also to know something of the health of the child.
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Should theadoptingparentdie without making a will, will the property descend not merely for the benefit of any children born in wedlock but equally for the adopted child?
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In such circumstances it is quite probable that the relations between theadoptingparentand the adopted child may become very faint after the lapse of time.
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However, is not the relationship between a step-parent and step-children often as close if not closer than that between anadoptingparentand an adopted child?
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The childs family name is not changed to that of theadoptingparent(s) and his or her guardians are publicly known as such.
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Adopting parents could sometimes learn of a biological father's criminality and this might have led to counter-productive efforts to combat risk of delinquency.
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Many adopting parents in non-private adoptions would apply to a local, state licensed adoption agency.
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By adolescence, the adoptees showed virtually no similarity to their adopting parents or the adoptive siblings with whom they had been raised.
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The infant is then issued a second, amended certificate, sometimes stated to be a birth certificate, that states the adopting parents are the child's parents.
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The monies are available to help prospective adopting parents wanting to adopt eligible children; but who may not have the financial resources available to do so.
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