1.   Ron Deacon is adoptive father to five love bird chicks, who need constant care and attention.

2.   Although he has been estranged from his adoptive father and former manager, Floyd Patterson, Tracy is hoping that this fight can help revive their relationship.

3.   Although his adoptive father had told him he was full-blood Kiowa, Crenshaw found he was of mixed blood.

4.   As boys, neither knew his biological father and both had difficult relationships with their adoptive fathers.

5.   Foer seems most fond of this character, who loses her parents as an infant, then loses her adoptive father when she is still a girl.

6.   Gingrich, citing the lung cancer deaths of his father and adoptive father, said few in Washington were as committed to stopping smoking as he.

7.   Her adoptive father remarried, and her stepmother wanted the teenage Yvette out of the house.

8.   He traveled from city to city as his adoptive father, Rex, struggled to find work and renmarried three times.

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