Adoption

1 What it means

Taking a child as one's own with full legal rights, under the Hindu Adoptions and Maintenance Act or the Juvenile Justice Act.

2 Use it in a sentence

The adoption was completed under the Juvenile Justice Act.

3 Make it stick

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