adoptive

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Recent Examples of adoptive Fans accused Myka of making money off of her adoptive child, but even after Stauffers left YouTube, other family channels thrived. Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 16 Jan. 2025 In some cases, young people were forced to go out on their own or wound up in homeless shelters, including Essence Flowers, who last year told the Daily News about the struggle to rebuild her life after she was forced out of her adoptive home. Cayla Bamberger, New York Daily News, 10 Jan. 2025 Three days before Christmas in 2023, Ukrainian orphan Natalia Grace, 21—who has a rare form of dwarfism—escaped her adoptive family in the middle of the night. Danielle Bacher, People.com, 3 Jan. 2025 Historically, the United States and China have followed the guidelines under the Hague Convention on the Protection of Children and Co-operation in Respect of Intercountry Adoption, and more than 82,000 children have been successfully placed in adoptive families in the U.S. Marco Rubio, Newsweek, 1 Nov. 2024 See All Example Sentences for adoptive

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“Adoptive.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/adoptive. Accessed 4 Mar. 2025.

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