ADOPTS

• Accepts, as a resolution

• Becomes a parent

• Becomes a parent not by childbirth

• Becomes parents, in a way

• Begins to follow, as a philosophy

• Brings into the family

• Chooses for oneself

• Decides to use

• Doesn't leave the North Shore Animal League empty-handed, say

• Embraces

• Embraces as one's own

• Embraces, as a philosophy

• Espouses

• Goes abroad for a baby, perhaps

• Makes one's own

• Passes, as a bill

• Passes, as legislation

• Ratifies

• Rescues from the pound

• Selects and takes

• Takes as one's own

• Takes home from the pound

• Takes in

• Takes in a stray

• Takes in as one's own

• Takes in or takes on

• Takes into one's family

• Votes to accept

• Votes to approve