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  1. NLM Digital Collections - A dictionary of Greek and Roman antiquities 
    Publication: New York : American Book Company, [1843]
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/01140320R
    ... dduoipdLg, or sometimes simply noirjmg or ■deeng. The adoptive father was said noietddai, ddnouidOai, or sometimes noitiv; and ... own family and demus into those of the adoptive father; he inherited his property, and main- tained the ...
  2. NLM Digital Collections - A dictionary of the English language: in which the words are deduced from their originals, ... 
    Publication: Philadelphia : Printed and published by James Maxwell, 1819
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/0037263X1
    ... his son. An adopted son cannot cite his adoptive father into court, without his leave. Ayliffe's Parergon. Ado' ...
  3. NLM Digital Collections - Memorials of the descendants of William Shattuck : the progenitor of the families in America .... 
    Publication: Boston : Printed by Dutton and Wentworth for the family, 1855
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/0241275
    ... other children, if he has any, is the adoptive father, and a woman who does the same thing, ... bring up, merely, should not be considered the adoptive-father or mother of such child. Foster-father is ...
  4. NLM Digital Collections - The medical department of the United States Army in the world war (Volume 7) 
    Publication: Washington : Government Printing Office, 1921-1929
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/14120390RX7
    ... needing the protection of a father or an adoptive father. Army Sanitary School No. 18. Trip to the ...
  5. NLM Digital Collections - Untrodden fields of anthropology : observations on the esoteric manners and customs of ... 
    Publication: New York : American Anthropological Society, [1898?]
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/0100771
    ... the natural father) and the Metua Faanu (the adoptive father) there was an almost incessant exchange of infants ...
  6. NLM Digital Collections - Letter from Luca Cavalli-Sforza to Joshua Lederberg 
    Publication: Produced: 25 April 1953
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/101584906X5307
    ... the manu- script by the death of my ‘adoptive father/ SfoPe ad curred on the 19th. His iliness, ...
  7. NLM Digital Collections - English-Yiddish encyclopedic dictionary = English-Idishes entsiḳlopedishes ṿerṭerbukh : a .... 
    Publication: New York : The Jewish Press Publishing Company, 1915
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/03910090R
    ... סי) .adoles'cency n (ע-דאפ׳-טױו פא׳- adoptive father טהער) דער מאז, װאס נעהמט א פרעמד קינד ...
  8. NLM Digital Collections - Memoir of Butler Wilmarth, M.D. : one of the victims of the late terrible railroad ... 
    Publication: Boston : Crosby, Nichols and Co., 1854
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/0362672
    ... own son would have received— especially from his adoptive father. But his situation in this home of his ...
  9. NLM Digital Collections - Child well-being : key considerations for policymakers including the need for a federal ... 
    Publication: Washington, DC : United States Government Accountability Office, November 2017
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/101746148
    ... household. “Two parents”=Mother and Father. Mother and father can include biological, adoptive, step, in-law, or foster relationships. “Single-mother”=Mother, no father; “Single-father”=Father, no mother; and “Other”=Neither ...
  10. NLM Digital Collections - MEDLARS indexing : integrated authority file 
    Publication: [Bethesda, Md.] : National Library of Medicine, Bibliographic Services Division, 1968
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/0226726
    ... Fl, I) 1969 to be used for natural, adoptive or substitute parents, and for articles concerning either mother, father, or both parents; also use for the concept ...
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