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養子 ようし

  1. adopted child (usu. male); son-in-law

養子に出す ようしにだす

  1. to put up for adoption

養子に行く ようしにいく

  1. to be adopted; to enter a family as an adopted child

養子縁組 ようしえんぐみ

  1. adoption (of a person)

養子論 ようしろん

  1. adoptionism

婿養子 むこようし

  1. son-in-law taken (adopted) into family

夫婦養子 ふうふようし

  1. adopting a married couple; married couple adopted into the family

末期養子 まつごようし

  1. deathbed adoption of a successor (to prevent extinction of the family line); person adopted by someone on his deathbed

普通養子縁組 ふつうようしえんぐみ

  1. regular adoption (official adoption with the consent of both parties and without dissolving the relationship with the biological parents)

特別養子縁組 とくべつようしえんぐみ

  1. adoption in which the relationship with the biological parents is dissolved; plenary adoption; special adoption
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