ADOPTED

• Accepted by vote

• Accepted, as a resolution

• Assumed

• Claimed as one's own

• Embraced

• Espoused

• Like Bill Clinton or, eventually, Oliver Twist

• Like many pets

• Like Steve Jobs and Moses

• Made one's own

• Not a part of from the start

• Not biological

• Taken in

• Taken into the clan

• Took as one's own

• Took for one's own

• Took in

• Took on or in

• Voted to accept