adopted child
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Adoption leave: Players and coaches will receive a minimum of eight weeks' paid absence if an adopted child is younger than two years old.
From BBC • May 31, 2024
Every cuckoo is an adopted child -- raised by foster parents, into whose nest the cuckoo mother smuggled her egg.
From Science Daily • Apr. 24, 2024
“The Official Story” is about a middle-class Buenos Aires couple who realize that their illegally adopted child may have been born to one of the desaparecidas.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 1, 2023
After arresting her in January, F.B.I. agents questioned her about her adopted child.
From New York Times • Nov. 2, 2022
“I know more of the history of Miss Havisham’s adopted child than Miss Havisham herself does, sir. I know her mother.”
From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
