Originally Posted by
AdamFTF
She did rescue him from a collapsed building after the Arkea meteor strike.
But let's be honest, the way family is built in regards to the X-Men in general and Jubilee in specific tends to be filled with all sorts of extralegal maneuvers. Jubilee's custody by the X-Men is questionable itself. As near as we can tell, she just showed up and they just let her stay. So, essentially harboring a teenage runaway. She really should have been placed with an official foster home or even sent to live with whatever relatives she may have in China (one of the reasons she actually ran away from the orphanage she was sent to was because she was afraid that she'd be sent to a whole other country). You can hand wave it saying "Surely the Professor addressed this through proper channels", but really we have no evidence that he actually even bothered. So, by doing some research into Shogo's situation and then filing official adoption papers, she followed the law far more than any of her role models probably did. As for saving him from his father who was an abusive war criminal who saw family as a way of furthering his own ends, I'd say they have the moral high ground. In that situation, they're serving as a more aggressive form of social services.