| She gleefully portrays the dual roles of Rose's flaky adoptive mother Claire and Rose's native godmother Maddie. |
| Like so many adoptive children he is caught up in a compulsive search to discover the truth about his real parentage. |
| An adoption order transfers the child's legal relationship from the original family to the new adoptive family. |
| The son of a German artisan, he was probably born in Venice, and apprenticed to his adoptive father Giulio. |
| We spent most of the session talking about her relationship with her adoptive father, Eric. |
| My adoptive mother gave me a copy of his obituary and three pictures of my father and told me the story. |
