affiliated

To adopt; to receive into a family as one's offspring

To bring or receive into close connection; to ally.

(said of an illegitimate child) To fix the paternity of

“to affiliate the child to (or on or upon) one man rather than another”

To connect in the way of descent; to trace origin to.

(followed by "to" or "with") To attach (to) or unite (with); to receive into a society as a member, and initiate into its mysteries, plans, etc.

Associated, related, or united; subject to a particular affiliation.

“We are not affiliated with any commercial publisher.”