In time, fathers adopted these techniques themselves after observing their sons' successes.

To this day I cannot understand why your father adopted Michiko.

Huntley is the name his father adopted from his father's aunt.

So long as my mother remained single, my father adopted a pitying attitude toward her.

"Just because your father found you and adopted you as his son, it doesn't mean finding a child makes him yours."

When my father officially adopted him, that was it.

I said, "I have the impression my father is adopting another son."

His father had adopted the boy as his son, and at the end, sacrificed so much to keep him safe.

Her father and legal mother had adopted her when she was born.