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

Chandrachud, retorted: “But, Mr. Solicitor, the adopted child of a lesbian couple or a gay couple does not necessarily have to be lesbian or gay.”

From Washington Post • Mar. 14, 2023

“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

Lewis had two marriages that ended in divorce, and in 1918, in her mid-fifties, she was raising a ten-year-old adopted child.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann