adoptive
//əˈdɒptɪv//
Adjective
adoptiveCanonical form
1
Related to or involving the legal process of adoption, especially of a child.
She was raised by her adoptive parents in a loving home.
2
Having adopted a child or children; used to describe parents who have legally taken another person's child as their own.
Her adoptive parents raised her with love and care.
3
Acquired or chosen rather than natural or biological.
She considers this city her adoptive home.