adoptive family

collocation in English

meaningsofadoptiveandfamily

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adoptive
adjective[before noun]
uk
/əˈdɒp.tɪv/us
/əˈdɑːp.tɪv/
An adoptive parent is one who has adopted ...
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family
noun
uk
/ˈfæm.əl.i/us
/ˈfæm.əl.i/
a group of people who are related to each other, such as a mother, a father, and ...
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(Definition ofadoptiveandfamilyfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Genetic liability for schizophrenia spectrum disorder and anadoptivefamilyrearing variable interact, predicting longitudinally and significantly to broadly defined adoptee psychiatric disorder.
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Only biological andadoptivefamilyties were considered.
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Only just less than 3% of individuals without a criminal biological parent and without major risk experiences in theadoptivefamilyshowed petty criminality.
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If this were the case for the current study then the expectation is that any increase in emotional/conduct problems should be a function of difficulties in theadoptivefamily.
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One in six children freed for adoption is not placed with anadoptivefamilyfor two years.
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This would include the language and culture of his proposedadoptivefamily.
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When a child enters a newadoptivefamily, it is often hard going.
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It will almost halve the average time it takes to find anadoptivefamilyfor the child.
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Often, they move between various foster parents before they find security and stability in anadoptivefamily.
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Adoption regulations have been based upon a concept of absolute confidentiality, to protect the identity of the adopted child in his or heradoptivefamily.
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That builds delay into the procedures—into the very process of ensuring that a potentialadoptivefamilyis matched with a child for adoption.
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If an illegitimate child is adopted by foster parents, he becomes part of hisadoptivefamilyand loses any rights to his natural parents' estates.
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We should protect the newadoptivefamilyby preventing the birth family from finding out their addresses and details.
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It is difficult for them to form a stable and permanent relationship with anyadoptivefamily.
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He is therefore entitled to inherit only from the adoptive parent andadoptivefamily.
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Adoption has lifelong implications for all three sides of the adoption triangle—the birth family, the child and theadoptivefamily.
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However, no child should be denied a lovingadoptivefamilysolely on the grounds that the parents have different racial or cultural backgrounds.
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It is an irrevocable transfer from a child's birth family to the newadoptivefamily.
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Nothing could be worse for a child than to be placed with anadoptivefamilyand for that placement to break down.
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But after 1949 a child could benefit from a gift to a class in theadoptivefamily, provided that he was adopted before the instrument was made.
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