adoptive parent

noun

: one's parent by adoption : a parent who has adopted a child

She is their adopted daughter, which makes them her adoptive parents.

Examples of adoptive parent in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

In the pic, Roz is shipwrecked on an uninhabited island and must learn to adapt to the harsh surroundings, gradually building relationships with the animals on the island and becoming the adoptive parent of an orphaned gosling. —Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 24 Sep. 2024

That way, the human being growing inside her gets to live life and an adoptive parent gets a child to raise. —Letters To The Editor, Orlando Sentinel, 23 June 2024

For the 2024-2025 form, anyone who needs to provide information, such as the student’s spouse, biological or adoptive parent, or the parent’s spouse, must have an individual FSA ID. —TIME, 5 Jan. 2024

Most people would think a social worker to be particularly qualified to serve as an adoptive parent. —Rayna Reid Rayford, Essence, 13 Oct. 2023

Though the violence is cartoonish and characters are never seriously hurt, some aspects — like a missing parent, a young girl alone and an uncaring adoptive parent — could worry younger or more sensitive viewers. —Common Sense Media, Washington Post, 16 June 2023

But is there something suspicious about the fever pitch of such discussions, which often take place among people who have never had—and never will have—direct personal experience with being an adoptive parent or an adoptee? —Jasmine Liu, The New Republic, 21 Mar. 2023