adoptive parents
Non-biological guardians raising
Adoptive parents are those who have legally taken another person's biological child as their own.
The term distinguishes them from birth parents or biological parents: Her adoptive parents raised her from infancy.
The child is their adoptive son or adoptive daughter.
- home studyLearning outside the classroom
- home visitAppointment at patient's residence
- background checkInvestigation of someone's history
- sealed recordsLegally restricted official documents
- familyRelated people together
guardians · cultural heritage · identity formation · attachment · custody · trust-building · nurturing · bonding · social worker · resilience · societal acceptance · waiting · orphan · new beginnings · embrace · second chance · paperwork · kinship
- kinshipmother, father, sister, brother, children
- caregiverscaregiver, carer, mothers, babysitter, fathers
- Parenting Worldplaygroups, parenting classes, working moms, stay-at-home dads, blended families
- adoptionadopted child, birth mother, home study, adopted children
- relationshipsfriends, romantic, family, friend, flirting
- relativesmother, father, sister, brother, aunt