1.   Adoptive parents often have little practical preparation for parenthood.

2.   Her adoptive parents were told at the time by doctors that her natural parents had abandoned her.

3.   I believe a great deal of advice is available to adoptive parents these days.

4.   I was brought up by adoptive parents as an only child.

5.   The adoptive parents had made no comments to suggest that they realized the children were unhappy.

6.   The incidence of schizophrenia in the adoptive parents has little influence.

7.   He was brought up by adoptive parents in London.

8.   Although most of the questions that would face the Clintons as adoptive parents are of a profoundly private nature, one lingers that is in the national interest.

9.   Among these is the recent Illinois decision to take the child known as Baby Richard from his adoptive parents and give him to his biological parents.

10.   And they are delinquent in finding adoptive parents for children languishing in foster care.