On 12/7/2017 5:50 PM, Karla Huebner wrote: > Just curious--how do people handle this? I've been aware that TMG considers > any primary parent-child relationship as if it wee biological, and have > just put up with it knowing that adopted family members and their > descendants end up looking biologically related to me. I wouldn't want to > leave them out of family trees, but... Karla, My way of dealing with adoptions is based on how I want the particular situation to be described in Journal reports. I use roles in the NarrativeChildren tag to introduce a List of Children (LoC) in the parents' narrative with appropriate wording. The sentence structure for role Adopted(plural) is: [:TAB:]Adopted children of [P] <and [PO]><and [R:NonPrimaryParent]><, [M],> were as follows:[:NP:] Role Adopted(plural) is similar to the standard "children of" sentence, but is used when some or all of the children of a couple are adopted. If all are adopted both adoptive parents are set as the primary parents of each child and are assigned the Adopted(plural) role in the NarrativeChildren tag.  If only one of the couple has adopted the children P2 of the NarrativeChildren tag is left blank. In addition to its use in noting that the children in the LoC are adopted, this role produces a sentence in which an optional memo set off by commas precedes the ending text, such as: "Adopted children of John Doe, issue of his second wife Mary, are as follows:" followed by a LoC. This role can also be used when the couple has biological children of their own as well as adopted children or when the report-subject parent adopts children of his/her spouse from a prior marriage. To do this the adopted children must have the report-subject parent as primary but may not have the spouse as primary; the spouse is entered as P2 with the role of NonPrimaryParent. Role Adopted(single) is similar to Adopted(plural) but with different wording to be applicable to a single adopted child: [:TAB:][P] <and [PO]><and [R:NonPrimaryParent]> adopted the following child<, [M]>:[:NP:] In addition to the above use of the NarrativeChildren tag to introduce the LoC, I use custom sentence structures for roles in the Adoption tag to include a description of the adoption circumstances in the child's and parent's narratives. I also use several roles in an Issue tag to include groups of children within the narrative in cases where they do not fit the LoC format.