Sentences with phrase «adopted as an infant»

Abortion is relevant only to the extent that the single or unready parenthood is encouraged by our culture; many of these children would be better off if they had been adopted as infants.

With humor and poignancy, Jillian interweaves her struggle to become a mother with her own story of being adopted as an infant.

She and her husband are the parents of two children (young adults), whom they adopted as infants and have maintained an open adoption with their birthmother for over 20 years.

To the person with the question: My son and his brother were both adopted as infants.

Many children on the attach - china list who are now being treated for RAD, were adopted as infants.

Some were adopted internationally while others were adopted as infants domestically or through the foster care system.

Lesli Johnson lives in Los Angeles and was adopted as an infant.

Adopted as an infant, he had recently been seeking out his birth family and had connected with his half siblings across the country.

Lanna was adopted as an infant.

Adopted as an infant, Betts used art as a way to explore her identity, but art therapy didn't enter her realm of awareness until she was in her 20s, when she began studying both art and psychology at the undergraduate level.

Palermo was born Peter Schwarze in Leipzig, Germany, in 1943, and adopted as an infant, with his twin brother, Michael, by foster parents named Heisterkamp.

Dammann and her partner, Nancy (Fu) Schroeder, the abiding abbess at Green Gulch Farm in Muir Beach, had long stopped being romantic partners, but agreed to stay together to co-parent their wheelchair - bound daughter Sabrina, Isabel Allende's step - granddaughter, whom they adopted as an infant — born drug addicted and with cerebral palsy, and not expected to live long.

Even children who were adopted as infants can manifest reactive attachment disorder.

She was also transracially adopted as an infant from foster care.

Marci has two siblings who were adopted as infants and adoption has been a part of her life since she was born.

To the person with the question: My son and his brother were both adopted as infants.

Creating an attachment relationship with a child who is adopted as an infant is relatively uncomplicated compared to a child who has been exposed to various circumstances earlier such as neglect, trauma or loss of parent.

Both of our kids were adopted as infants.

I was adopted as an infant and our family adopted our youngest child 11 years ago, from Russia.

I just wanted to speak to you as an adult that was adopted as an infant.

Not exact matches

Do NOT leave an adopted toddler [or infant] alone crying at night as often recommended by many parent discipline specialists.

According to some «Christians» God really intended the infant sons and daughters of young single mothers and fathers as a blessing to the people hoping to adopt a healthy infant.

I think Riley might have been adopted... 2 points are that when her parents first see her as an infant she is all wrapped up and they are greeting her together side by side, not from different perspectives like in a delivery room... also both parents have brown eyes and Riley's eyes are blue, while this is genetically possible it is very less likely to occur...

In the view of the EFSA opinion, and considering that the Commission is currently working on a delegated act as regards infant formula and follow - on formula: 1) Is the Commission considering extending the advertising restrictions that apply to infant formula to follow - on - formula, and if not, how will the Commission provide Member States with legal certainty that they can adopt stricter rules on advertising?

From knowing what kind of information is important to have to anticipating potential stumbling blocks to a smooth transition, this course serves as a guide to anyone considering adopting a child older than an infant (whether internationally or from the US public welfare system).

Countries that adopt all the Code's recommendations will prohibit the advertising of breast - milk substitutes, such as infant formula, and sales promotions for and free samples of these products would be outlawed.

(1) to protect and promote breastfeeding, as an essential component of their overall food and nutrition policies and programmes on behalf of women and children, so as to enable all infants to be exclusively breastfed during the first four to six months of life; (2) to promote breastfeeding, with due attention to the nutritional and emotional needs of mothers; (3) to continue monitoring breastfeeding patterns, including traditional attitudes and practices in this regard; (4) to enforce existing, or adopt new, maternity protection legislation or other suitable measures that will promote and facilitate breastfeeding among working women; (5) to draw the attention of all who are concerned with planning and providing maternity services to the universal principles affirmed in the joint WHO / UNICEF statement (note 2) on breastfeeding and maternity services that was issued in 1989; (6) to ensure that the principles and aim of the International Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes and the recommendations contained in resolution WHA39.28 are given full expression in national health and nutritional policy and action, in cooperation with professional associations, womens organizations, consumer and other nongovermental groups, and the food industry; (7) to ensure that families make the most appropriate choice with regard to infant feeding, and that the health system provides the necessary support;

Venneman and colleagues5 recently demonstrated that infants who are formula fed are twice as likely to die of SIDS than breastfed infants based on a case control study of 333 SIDS cases compared to 998 aged matched controls in Germany, from 1998 - 2001, consistent with previously published reports.35 While no studies show that co-sleeping in the form of bedsharing, specifically, is imperative for breastfeeding enhancement, many studies have shown that in order to get more sleep and to ease caring for their infants the decision to breastfeed often leads mothers to adopt routine bedsharing for at least part of the night36 - 40 even where they never intended to do so.41, 42 Indeed, nearly 50 % of breastfeeding mothers in the United States and Great Britain adopt bedsharing for some part of the night,38,43 - 45 and breastfeeding women are twice as likely to sleep with their babies in the first month relative to mothers electing to bottle - feed.39

Healing Dismembered Families: Adopting - Back the Adult Children We Lost to adoption as infants Restoring the legal ties («filiation») severed by strangers when they took our infants by force and coercion.

Films that might have fit this putative strand included the charming but overlong Timeless Stories, co-written and directed by Vasilis Raisis (and winner of the Michael Cacoyannis Award for Best Greek Film), a story that follows a couple (played by different actors at different stages of the characters» lives) across the temporal loop of their will - they, won't - they relationship from childhood to middle age and back again — essentially Julio Medem - lite, or Looper rewritten by Richard Curtis; Michalis Giagkounidis's 4 Days, where the young antiheroine watches reruns of Friends, works in an underpatronized café, freaks out her hairy stalker by coming on to him, takes photographs and molests invalids as a means of staving off millennial ennui, and causes ripples in the temporal fold, but the film is as dead as she is, so you hardly notice; Bob Byington's Infinity Baby, which may be a «science - fiction comedy» about a company providing foster parents with infants who never grow up, but is essentially the same kind of lame, unambitious, conformist indie comedy that has characterized U.S. independent cinema for way too long — static, meticulously framed shots in pretentious black and white, amoral yet supposedly lovable characters played deadpan by the usual suspects (Kieran Culkin, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, Kevin Corrigan), reciting apparently nihilistic but essentially soft - center dialogue, jangly indie music at the end, and a pretty good, if belated, Dick Cheney joke; and Petter Lennstrand's loveably lo - fi Up in the Sky, shown in the Youth Screen section, about a young girl abandoned by overworked parents at a sinister recycling plant, who is reluctantly adopted by a reconstituted family of misfits and marginalized (mostly puppets) who are secretly building a rocket — it's for anyone who has ever loved the Tintin moon adventures, books with resourceful heroines, narratives with oddball gangs, and the legendary episode of Angel where David Boreanaz turned into a Muppet.

White Wolf isn't just a random nickname, but the name of a longstanding character in the Black Panther comic books: Hunter, orphaned as an infant when both his parents died in a plane crash near Wakanda and, despite being a white foreigner, was adopted and raised by T'Challa's father, T'Chaka.

Since their Get Set journey began five years ago, Helme CE (VA) Junior & Infant School has adopted the Values as their own.

As approved by the Subcommittee on Labor - Management Relations on an 11 - to - 5 vote last week, the measure would require employers to grant their workers up to 10 weeks of unpaid leave every two years to care for a newborn or adopted infant or an ill child...

Alex and Maya immigrated to the US from the former USSR, and adopted Max from a Montana couple as an infant.

Tony, I went to get an Irish passport recently so I could be a «European» — only to discover that Grandfather Townshend had been take from Derbyshire to Ireland as an adopted infant.

You should also consider the status of the law in 1938 as well as the status of an infant human non-citizen «adopted» in the same way at that time.

All adopted kids, even placed as infants, experience loss in order to join their forever families.

Evidence suggests that, in the first six months, infants are capable of experiencing and responding to distress by adopting self - soothing behavior such as sucking.

What are some of the typical differences between children adopted at an older age as opposed to infant adoption?

As an example, a preventive intervention in families with internationally adopted infants significantly enhanced maternal sensitivity and also significantly reduced disorganized attachment: in the intervention group there were only 6 % disorganized - attached children compared with 22 % in the control group.11 This study used a brief intervention of three home - based sessions of video feedback focusing on parental sensitivity, with the intervention starting when the child was six months old.

Even if you plan on adopting an infant, I still encourage you to read this book, as it is incredibly insightful and educational.

I, Judy Burr - Chellin, hereby certify: That I am the duly elected and acting Secretary of Washington Association for Infant Mental Health, a Washington nonprofit corporation, and that the foregoing Bylaws constitute the Bylaws of said corporation as duly adopted by the Board of Directors at a meeting duly held on August 7, 2013.