And I knew him warmly, for a few years at least, as an adoptive father.

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"We just let him follow his instincts as much as we can, " his adoptive father, John Mark Crawford, said in the video.

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Jason Bateman, who played his father in "Arrested Development" is the potential adoptive father and he's about a year older mentally when (unintelligible).

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In Man of Steel, we not only have Henry Cavill as the hero, we have Kevin Costner as his adoptive father and Russell Crowe as his biological father, Jor-El.

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Dima Yakovlev - a 21-month-old toddler who had left the home only a few months earlier - died of heatstroke after being accidentally left in a car by his adoptive father in Virginia.

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The accused is a young Chechen (Apti Magamaev), charged with murdering his adoptive father, an officer in the Russian Army, and the jury none of whom are named is sequestered in the echoing gymnasium of a modern Moscow school.

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Several parties have a stake in what happens to this girl: Her biological mother and father, the adoptive parents, the federal government, the Oklahoma-based tribe, and a legal guardian appointed by the state to represent the child's interests.

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The Capobiancos think the issue should be about whether the ICWA law can improperly block adoption proceedings voluntarily initiated by a non-Indian mother who had sole custody of her child, due to what the adoptive parents say is the Indian father's failure to establish a legal parent-child relationship under state law.

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