I returned the grin and looked past him at his adoptive father.

Her adoptive father said he wanted a boy, but the doctor told him it was a girl or nothing.

They knew our situation and asked me if my son wanted to be the adoptive father.

His adoptive father had crafted it for him, after all.

"One of the guys was like an adoptive father to him."

For example, the child is named after the biological, not adoptive, father.

Both men took the last names of their adoptive fathers.

His adoptive father died of a heart attack in the ring when Ted was just 15.

Marcus had much love and respect for his adoptive father.

He knew his adoptive father had expected him to fail all along.