No, she was not adopted.
In order to be adopted by your step mother, your mother would need to sign a waiver allowing it to happen. Without that, you cannot be adopted while your mother has legal parental rights.
They are allowed to start looking for you when they are 18. Their adoptive parents will decide how much they will tell them and when.
so he could go to college
yes
Poe did not have an adopted or step mother. He had a foster mother, Frances Allan, who raised him with her husband John. She died of tuberculosis on February 28, 1829.
Superman's adopted mother is Martha Kent. Not sure about his biological mother from Krypton.
Her mother was on drugs
no
They are both adjectives, and "adopted" can be a verb as well. "Adoptive" modifies the person who is doing the adopting, e.g. "The adoptive mother." "Adopted" as an adjective modifies the person being adopted, as in "My adopted son." Adopted can also be the past tense of a verb, e.g. "I adopted my son in 2007." And to use both in one sentence: "The adoptive mother adopted her adopted son in 2007." Ta-da!
No. If you adopted a child and the mother cancelled the adoption, you should owe nothing.
Anna Gordy Gay is Marvin III's adopted mother.