Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-31924693-20170131072141

A few hours ago as I write, the Agnes Gru article was edited to, in part, change her status from "adopted" to "adoptive". This is incorrect; "adoptive" is not just a fancy way of saying "adopted", it is the active version of the word whilst "adopted" is the passive version.

That is to say, "adoptive" means "one who takes on a new relative", whilst "adopted" means "the new relative who is taken on". To put it another way, Gru and Lucy are the adoptive parents of the girls, whilst they are Gru and Lucy's adopted children.

I mention this because the Margo Gru article turned out to have the same error (now corrected, of course), Strangely enough, the Edith Gru article did not. 