Collocations for adopt - verb

legally
The child has now been legally adopted.

have sb adopted
She was forced to have her baby adopted.

formally, officially
The policy has not yet been formally adopted.

tend to
decide to
be forced to

Adopt is used with these nouns as the subject:
conference, congress, council, parliament

Adopt is used with these nouns as the object:
accent, alias, amendment, approach, attitude, baby, bill, child, code, constitution, convention, course, creed, criterion, custom, declaration, definition, directive, disguise, doctrine, document, guideline, habit, identity, ideology, kid, law, legislation, lifestyle, line, manner, mannerism, measure, method, mode, model, motion, motto, name, nationality, orphan, perspective, philosophy, plan, point of view, policy, position, posture, practice, procedure, profile, pseudonym, reasoning, recommendation, reform, register, regulation, religion, resolution, rhetoric, role, rule, scheme, slogan, solution, stance, standpoint, strategy, style, suggestion, surname, system, tack, tactic, technique, technology, terminology, tone, view, viewpoint