Having biological children in the treatment home may provide a role model for the youth in terms of how to have a relationship with a parental figure.
I consulted with foster parents, children who were in foster care and parents who
had their biological children in foster care.
Not exact matches
NEW YORK (Reuters)-
In a landmark ruling for non-traditional families in New York, the state's highest court on Tuesday held a person need not have a biological or adoptive relationship with a child to be considered a paren
In a landmark ruling for non-traditional families
in New York, the state's highest court on Tuesday held a person need not have a biological or adoptive relationship with a child to be considered a paren
in New York, the state's highest court on Tuesday held a person need not
have a
biological or adoptive relationship with a
child to be considered a parent.
It is really troubling to me that, despite the number of new orphans the earthquake produced, Haiti is still clinging to it's archaic rules about couples needing to be married for 10 years, and to
have no
biological children, and be over 30 years old,
in order to adopt.»
But being a stepmother is like being
in - between — not fully mother (I
have no
biological children of my own), not fully childless either.
Furthermore, while an intact family composed of two parents of the opposite sex and their
biological child or
children may provide the best standard family unit
in society (and should, therefore, be given support), we
would be naive and cruel to dismiss the possibility that differently configured families (e.g., families with single parents or homosexual parents or adopted
children) may produce family situations that are as good as, or,
in some cases, better than, those of families that fit the standard.
Can't wait for psychiatrists to start prescribing my
children and I medication because we
have a
biological proclivity to believe
in illusions.
In recent televised legal battles, juries returned an adopted
child to a
biological parent years after the adoption
had been finalized.
Now they
have become «one flesh» literally,
in the blending of their
biological heritages
in a
child.
From the moment when, as I
have said, the phyletic strands began to reach towards one another, weaving the first outlines of the Noosphere, a new matrix, co-extensive with the whole human group, was formed about the newly - born human
child — a matrix out of which he can not be wrenched without incurring mutilation
in the most physical core of his
biological being.
In the second verse he is talking about the God (His father -LCB- Not literally his biological father, Its a way to express himself close to God, as we are all children of God, cuz he created us all -RCB--RRB-, how he has reserved space in heaven for the believer
In the second verse he is talking about the God (His father -LCB- Not literally his
biological father, Its a way to express himself close to God, as we are all
children of God, cuz he created us all -RCB--RRB-, how he
has reserved space
in heaven for the believer
in heaven for the believers.
Even if for unfortunate circumstances, a particular
child can not
have its own
biological parents, the
child is
in general still better off
having a mother and father.
As the founder of Project Rachel, the post-abortion healing ministry of the Catholic church
in the United States and abroad, I stumbled into the
biological science of human bonding while trying to find a way to help women who
have had abortions to be able to bond with their unborn
children in subsequent pregnancies.
One of the joys I
have found is that with all six of my
children, I see no difference
in skin color and no difference between
biological and adoptive.
For example, a
child may
have emotional or
biological sensitivities to specific foods or around certain routines and behaviors, and tactics used by grandparents may not be helpful
in working through the emotional interferences.
A friend of mine named Heather is personally invested
in the situation
in Haiti as she and her husband (along with their two
biological children)
have been trying to adopt two
children — Clara (age 3) and Emerson (age 1)-- from an orphanage there since March 2007.
What
would be so wrong about insisting individuals who want to raise
children — whether they're single, married, living together,
in a civil union or whatever; straight or gay; and whether the
child is
biological or adopted — take parenting classes, outline a parenting plan, and
have to prove him / herself financial responsible before he / she could apply for a parenting license and pop out a baby?
Take the stance that men
have to be involved
in assessments and family interventions for the sake of their
children; refuse to accept a referral without reference to the
biological father and to any key father - figures.
And during that time, we became involved with a support group to help us through the process and getting advice on what to do
in terms of experiencing the grief and a loss of not
having a
biological child.
Esther
has experience working with parents and young
children in biological, foster, and adoptive homes.
Have the
Biological parent tell the
child about the new baby on the way and assure them of their special place
in the family.
Second, our interviews and research
have found that many men who initially sign up as a parenting partner with the intention to be simply a known donor (i.e., where his identity and contact information is available to the family and his
biological child) actually end up becoming significantly involved
in the
child's life.
However, we
had a newborn baby girl
in our care (not our
biological child) for about 2 months that we were going to adopt.
I think that might just apply
in this case:
children develop resistance to bad
biologicals in part by being exposed to them, so maybe all those bologna and cheese sandwiches I took to school as a kid helped keep me from
having to be spoon - fed a diet of sterile Pablum the rest of my life, eh?
But what of the parents whose
biological children have serious illnesses like the
children in the story?
Parents who
have biological or adopted
children turn out to be happier
in general than parents who
have stepchildren.
About 40 % of
children who do not live with their
biological father
have not seen him during the past 12 months; more than half of them
have never been
in his home and 26 % of those fathers live
in a different state than their
children.
Birth parents
have considered all possible options for raising their
biological child and
have come to the respectable decision that the
child's care
would best be
in the hand's of another family who can better provide for the
child.
She's interested
in an «ethic of responsible parenthood,» which sounds good on surface but borders on elitism once you start exploring what that may mean: George Lucas adopted two
children as a single man and I will bet that Sawhill
would not insist that he
have a partner first and wait until they are «ready to be parents» — he was wealthy enough to hire surrogate moms until he married again and, last year, became a
biological dad at age 69.
Many
children are a product of divorce, are
in touch with both their
biological and adopted parents,
have two moms or two dads (or both), or are being raised by their grandparents.
It's easy for people to forget that, regardless of what kind of parent we are, whether it's
biological, step -, or adoptive, we
have been given a gift
in being able to be a part of a
child's life.
What's awesome about this is that research
has learned that it doesn't matter if the father is a
biological father, a single father, or a stepfather — it's their involvement
in the
child's life that is most significant.
Keep
in mind, this is not the fault of the
child or the parent, it is a
biological function that
has occurred and there are solutions for bed - wetting.
«Secrecy
in adoption probably
has its roots
in a desire to protect the
child from interference from the
biological parents and to hide the often illegitimate circumstances of the
child's origins.»
Adoption costs for those who can't
have biological children have risen, as
has the cost of raising
children in general.
This
has certain merits of its own; the
child would not feel any urge to find his / her real parents later
in life, and the
biological relation
would allow the parents to contribute
in many medical emergencies, like blood and bone marrow donation.
Dear Abby: I
have read
in your column so many times about agencies that help adopted
children «find «their
biological parents, but since I am not adopted, I never gave the subject much thought, until now.
Stepfathers are widespread not only
in modern industrial societies but also
in subsistence - level societies as well.6, 51,52 Many studies
have found that, compared with resident
biological fathers, stepfathers invest less
in the
children who live with them, both
in the United States37, 39,53 and other cultures.54 - 56 Stepchildren are more likely to
have emotional and behavioural problems than resident genetic offspring, 39,40 although there is evidence that
children who
have close relationships with their stepfathers
have better outcomes.41, 57
As a mother of a
child acquired through an open adoption, it
has come to my attention how misunderstood and feared open adoptions are
in this world from the questions I
've gotten about my son's adoption and through encounters that my son's
biological mother
has shared with me.
I'm now an adopted «
child» who
has siblings
in both
biological and adoptive families that are left handed.
We believe all family is important and we want to teach our
child that they
have enough space
in their hearts and lives for both their adoptive family and their
biological family.
As we
have seen from parenting as well as lesbian parenting studies, that person can be a man, but a female partner to the
biological mother seems to work out just as well, as long as the two people
in the parenting relationship are together,
in love and working together to raise the
child.
Programs serving fathers of young
children have grown
in response to two needs: (1) mothers are more likely to be employed outside of the home, thus placing demands on fathers to become increasingly involved
in child care and
child rearing, and (2) a growing number of
biological fathers do not reside with their
children and face significant challenges with being actively involved
in their
children's lives.
Thus, it is not surprising that breastfeeding
has been consistently associated with improved central nervous system development, as indicated by improved visual acuity
in relationship to formula - fed infants.4 Second, both
biological properties and differences
in maternal - infant interactions during the feeding process can lead to improved motor and intellectual development outcomes.5, 6 Third, breastfeeding appears to be protective against the onset of childhood obesity, 7 a condition that
has enormous psychosocial consequences for
children.
A recent study
has reported an association between dietary long chain polyunsaturated fatty acids and mental development
in infants.32 It
has been suggested that these fatty acids can be an explanation for the beneficial effect of nutrition with human milk on mental development of the
child.33 34 This may be a plausible
biological explanation of the correlation between breast feeding and mental development.
I'm thinking this sentence should read: «Marriage equality proponents opponents will trumpet this study as proof that
children raised by loving, committed, married same - sex couples will
have more problems than those who are raised by both
biological parents
in a heterosexual household.»
Just two days after the state's highest court expanded the definition of a parent to include caretakers who did not officially adopt or do not
have biological ties to their
children — a Manhattan mom was the first to benefit from the new ruling
in a custody case yesterday.
In a 2000 survey of postdoctoral fellows in the biological and physical sciences at the University of California (UC), Berkeley, 45 % of married women with children reported that they hadn't presented research at national conferences the previous year, compared to 24 % of all other postdoc
In a 2000 survey of postdoctoral fellows
in the biological and physical sciences at the University of California (UC), Berkeley, 45 % of married women with children reported that they hadn't presented research at national conferences the previous year, compared to 24 % of all other postdoc
in the
biological and physical sciences at the University of California (UC), Berkeley, 45 % of married women with
children reported that they hadn't presented research at national conferences the previous year, compared to 24 % of all other postdocs.
Whether or not a gay gene, a set of gay genes, or some other
biological mechanism is ever found, one thing is clear: The environment a
child grows up
in has nothing to do with what makes most gay men gay.
Bry «
has developed a highly innovative and nationally recognized system to use the
biological samples obtained routinely
in the course of clinical care as the basis of population - based discovery research,» Isaac «Zak» Kohane, director of the
Children's Hospital Informatics Program and professor of pediatrics and health sciences and technology at Harvard Medical School, writes
in an e-mail.