"To adopt the teen" means to legally become the parent of a teenager who does not have a family or guardians. It involves providing them with a permanent home and taking care of them as their own child. Full definition
Not sure how to deal with your adopted teen's moods, your precious toddler's attachment issues, your elementary child's educational challenges? (frua.org)
It's about an adopted teen who is encouraged to meet her biological mother by her adoptive parents. (educationworld.com)
This horror - show of a world is explored through the stories of five women: a single teacher who's using her last opportunities to try to have her own child; a frustrated mother; an adopted teen who finds herself pregnant; an introverted healer who provides illegal services in the woods; and a 19th - century female polar explorer. (bookpage.com)