Sentence examples for adoptive dad from inspiring English sources

2. Despicable Me 2. There were a lot of adoption problems in the first Despicable Me, but by the sequel, Gru has become a nurturing, positive adoptive dad, and life post-adoption has arrived at a new normal (at least, as normal as life can be for a former super-villain with a bunch of Minions running around).

Dad -- his adoptive dad -- was gone a lot, working.

He was the beloved husband of Josie, father of Susana, Jose, and Daniel, Abuelo of Danilo and Mateo, adoptive Dad to Lourdes and Dad-in-law, cousin, uncle, padrino.

I am their white adoptive dad, and by now, at their age, they see the racial difference between us clearly and are not always comfortable with it in public.

Back then, the neighbourhood's gentrification was still a decade away and she lived in a squat refurbished by her mum, a writer and singer, and her adoptive dad, then a construction worker.

In the 1990s, he was the star of Horsin' Around, a sitcom about what happened when a cartoon horse becomes the adoptive dad to a bunch of cute American kids seemingly abandoned by their human birth parents.

"We can't handle the thought of the life Esther was born for," says Steve Jenkins, one of Esther's adoptive dads.

But the dad I was that night was not only exhausted but keenly aware that if this turned into a heated argument, it could well spread to the other families present, which included both adoptive dads and birth mothers.

Last month, the hate group launched an anti-gay attack on Mattel after the company featured Amaya and her gay adoptive dads in the November/December 2015 issue of American Girl magazine in an article titled "Forever Family". .

(Interestingly, 42 of the companies on the list offer more paid adoption leave than paid paternity leave, raising the ironic possibility that while mothers who give birth are entitled to more paid leave, on average, than adoptive moms, fathers whose partners give birth don't fare as well as adoptive dads.

When he was three, his mother remarried and, although Marcus always knew about his real father, he grew up thinking of his adoptive father as Dad.