Some parents may have offered up their daughters for formal or informal adoption.

He had been aware from the first that Louise disapproved of Grégoire, and disapproved of this informal adoption.

Hānai is a term used in the Hawaiian culture that refers to the informal adoption of one person by another, regardless of the age involved.

Amid the public discussion of the deficiencies in many black families, informal adoption has often provided the seeds of family rejuvenation.

Some suggest that drug abuse, teen-age pregnancies and a shortage of affordable housing, among other things, have caused informal adoptions to increase.

A custom like informal adoption should be preserved because it fosters a sense of belonging, said Mary Connolly, a psychotherapist who lives in the Bronx.

The need to delineate these designs from their directly coupled counterparts has led to the informal adoption of several additional terms, including:

This led to the informal adoption of the Eastern Nagari script also used for Bengali and Assamese.

During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries there was also the possibility of informal adoption.

Or an informal adoption.