Amanda snorted softly at that bit of information, then she sobered. "The reason why T’Pau was asking this is because we wanted to know how you three would feel about adoption. The only way to protect you against anything Earth or the Federation might try to pull is to give you Vulcan citizenship. Unfortunately to get Vulcan citizenship you have to be part of a clan; and the only way to join a clan is to marry into it or to be adopted."