Sentences with phrase «as foster parents who»

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Among them are the rights to: bullet joint parenting; bullet joint adoption; bullet joint foster care, custody, and visitation (including non-biological parents); bullet status as next - of - kin for hospital visits and medical decisions where one partner is too ill to be competent; bullet joint insurance policies for home, auto and health; bullet dissolution and divorce protections such as community property and child support; bullet immigration and residency for partners from other countries; bullet inheritance automatically in the absence of a will; bullet joint leases with automatic renewal rights in the event one partner dies or leaves the house or apartment; bullet inheritance of jointly - owned real and personal property through the right of survivorship (which avoids the time and expense and taxes in probate); bullet benefits such as annuities, pension plans, Social Security, and Medicare; bullet spousal exemptions to property tax increases upon the death of one partner who is a co-owner of the home; bullet veterans» discounts on medical care, education, and home loans; joint filing of tax returns; bullet joint filing of customs claims when traveling; bullet wrongful death benefits for a surviving partner and children; bullet bereavement or sick leave to care for a partner or child; bullet decision - making power with respect to whether a deceased partner will be cremated or not and where to bury him or her; bullet crime victims» recovery benefits; bullet loss of consortium tort benefits; bullet domestic violence protection orders; bullet judicial protections and evidentiary immunity; bullet and more...

In learning to trust and to cooperate with others, he reestablishes in a mature way the naïve innocence he had as an infant attacked by Voldemort and then handed over to foster - parents who despise him.

As a parent who has adopted 3 kids from foster care (in two adoptions several years apart; one was a teen, the other two were 4 & 5), your fear is not unfounded — but it's been my experience that the more prepared (scared!)

Seven states — AL, TX, MS, ND, SD, VA and MI - have passed bills allowing adoption and foster care agencies to discriminate against LGBTQ children, youth and qualified prospective parents — as well as other prospective parents who don't pass an agency's religious test.

With an older child who is already living in the United States, you can get a sense of the child's general health by spending time with him or her before the adoption or by serving as a foster parent first.

Meet the Najafi family — Five Acres donors who have also been trained and certified as foster - adoptive parents through the agency.

He is the co-author (with foster / adoptive mother Lori Thomas) of The Jonathon Letters; the author of Baby Verses: The Narrative Poetry of Infants and Toddlers; the producer of two meditation CD's, including See Me As a Person: Meditations for Sustaining Relationship - Based Care, and The Hope - Filled Parent: Meditations for Parents of Children Who Have Been Harmed; and co-author (with Mary Koloroutis) of the 2012 textbook for healthcare providers, See Me As a Person.

Pediatric Therapy Network (PTN) was founded in 1996 by a handful of therapists, parents and volunteers who envisioned an organization that would provide the community with high quality therapy, research and education as it relates to fostering the best possible outcomes for children with special needs.

It would provide up to 12 weeks of parental leave for all Service members, including foster and adoptive parents who often have been treated as less deserving under previous policies.

Learn more from long time doula and advocate for families and babies, Penny Simkin, who is passionate about singing to babies as a way to foster further attachment between parents and baby.

As President of the Lordina Foundation, the former First Lady acknowledges and celebrates «the men and women who have over the years served as foster parents to children who have called the orphanages across the country their home.&raquAs President of the Lordina Foundation, the former First Lady acknowledges and celebrates «the men and women who have over the years served as foster parents to children who have called the orphanages across the country their home.&raquas foster parents to children who have called the orphanages across the country their home.»

The film casts Argento as Sarah, a sleazy former prostitute who has just regained custody of her son Jeremiah - though it's clear that she's in no state to be raising a child (she convinces Jeremiah that he'll be crucified if he attempts to go back to his foster parents).

Business tycoon and mayoral candidate Benjamin Stacks (Jamie Foxx) launches a campaign to take in Annie (Quvenzhané Wallis), a young girl who has been living with her mean foster mom Miss Hannigan (Cameron Diaz) since her parents left her as a baby.

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.

Kate Bosworth and Thomas Jane star as a married couple who try to get over their son's death by foster - parenting an 8 - year - old orphan (a pre-Room Jacob Tremblay) who's been passed from one home to another under mysterious circumstances.

Annie Director: Will Gluck Stars: Jamie Foxx, Quvenzhané Wallis, Rose Byrne, Bobby Cannavale Synopsis: Business tycoon and mayoral candidate Benjamin Stacks launches a campaign to take in Annie, a young girl who has been living with her mean foster mom Miss Hannigan since her parents left her as a baby.

The movie stars actress Sophie Nélisse as Liesel, a young orphan who goes to live with foster parents Hans (Geoffrey Rush) and Rosa (Emily Watson).

As someone who is concerned about rising inequality, I'm willing to restrict parental choice only when there's evidence that parents are being hoodwinked or when the option they have chosen has a poor track record of fostering student achievement.

He served as a middle school teacher and union chapter leader, and spent seven years as a school principal, first at a district middle school and then as the founding principal of a charter high school serving over-age and under - credited students who were court - involved or in foster care He comes to Parent Revolution with a deep belief that all students, from all communities and in all kinds of situations, deserve excellent schools and the opportunities afforded by a high quality education.

Our work fosters growth in teachers as instructional leaders, in parents as support partners, and in students as learners who can meet the challenge of high academic standards.

By providing key tools, training and support, our programs are designed to foster growth in teachers as instructional leaders, in parents as support partners, and in students as learners who can meet the challenge of high academic standards.

Supervising the social workers will be Dr. Melissa Smith, the school's director of well - being, who was in foster care herself as a child and has also been a foster parent.

Foster children would be targeted for extra educational support, and foster parents would help the state penetrate the world of informal child care, such as grandparents and family friends who care for young children in their homes.

While many digital publishers are reaching out to their audiences — and the parents who ultimately make the purchasing decisions on which content to buy — with standard add - ons such as voice - over narration and full - color high resolution illustrations, Sourcebooks unveiled a new digital project that will foster an even greater connection with the story.

My attention was drawn to a crate carried by a foster parent as he brought in a litter of kittens who were finally ready for adoption.

It was animal advocate Richard Avanzino who, after the terms of Murphy's will became known, took up Sido's cause, and took in Sido, serving as the dog's foster parent until things got straightened out in court.

That's exactly what happened with Oreo, who started as a foster dog but very quickly became a forever dog with his awesome parents, Darlene and Dean.

Whether it's taking a hands - on approach inside our Adoption Center or Pet Health Centers, acting as a foster parent to animals in need of a little extra love and attention, or providing assistance during off - site events, there are no limits to the ways our volunteers can better the lives of every dog, cat, puppy, and kitten who finds themselves in our care.

Andrea is a part - time receptionist who found her way to Randhurst Animal Hospital through a local animal organization as a doggie foster parent.

Animal League America Rescue Team Leader, Karla Agostinello, who has played a vital role in our collaborative rescue efforts with our international rescue partners, said without our loyal supporters and donors, as well as a network of dedicated foster parents, these long - distance rescue efforts would not be possible.

But on Thursday, as a two - month office - foster parent to Chris who, word had it, was about to go to be adopted, it just overwhelmed my heart because the sentiments are so applicable, as we pray that the animals in our temporary care will be brought to their «forever homes.»

As a foster parent you'll not only save the lives of animals in your care, but you'll give other animals coming into the shelter who may not need the same level of medical attention a space on our adoption floor to find their own loving homes.

We offer quarterly «Foster Rewards», such as gift cards and fun perks, to people who are active foster parents.

Familial status is defined as having one or more individuals under 18 years of age who reside with a parent or with another person with care and legal custody of that individual (including foster parents) or with a designee of that parent or other person with legal custody.

In light of their prior lows, the recency of their turnaround and the perceived fragility of their situation (in part having regard to the potential impacts of his work - related absence on her state of being), the province and its representatives remained convinced that the best interests of the children would be served by securing permanent guardianship as a precursor to facilitating the adoption of the children by the couple who had for over a year served as foster parents.

Under the FLA — s. 1 (1)-- a person who has demonstrated a «settled intention to treat a child as a child of his / her family (not foster parent).

But, no facts above suggest that this has happened, proving that the harm was caused by the wrongful actions of a responsible person (like a foster parent) rather than, for example, a fellow child in foster care, showing damages, and overcoming the qualified immunity of the persons who allegedly caused the harm, is pretty much an insurmountable barrier as well.

For the first 6 months after you receive your junior drivers license, you may not have more than one passenger under the age of 18 who is not an immediate family member (your brother, sister, stepbrother or stepsister, or adopted or foster children living in the same household as you) unless you are accompanied by a parent or legal guardian.

As part of a federally funded collaboration called Critical Ongoing Resource Family Education or CORE, NACAC is currently working with Spaulding for Children and other partners to help improve the training offered to foster and adoptive parents of children who are older and have more needs.

Relatives who want to care for children within their extended family may be assessed as foster parents or adoptive parents, or as kinship carers.

Some approaches explicitly include community members, foster parents, and service providers who are currently working with the family, as well as those who could be helpful in meeting the family's needs.

AdoptUSKids provides education and resources for parents who are considering fostering and adoption as well as those who are already foster or adoptive parents.

Perhaps the most important advantage of children's homes was that the house parents were «professionals» in contrast to foster parents who were seen as direct rivals with natural parents.

Trained in such areas as child development, emotional disturbance, and therapeutic intervention skills, treatment foster parents are assumed to be better equipped than less intensively trained foster parents to cope with the behavior of children who have suffered abuse, neglect, and rejection in their natural families.

This show as well as all the resources provided by creating a family could not happen without the generous support from our partners who believe in our mission of providing unbiased education and support to those struggling to create a family and to foster parents as well.

Thus, courts will typically conclude that an award of custody to the parent who is most likely to foster as relationship between the child and the other parent is in the child's best interests.

In 2001, as a foster and adoptive parent recruiter for the New Mexico Children, Youth & Families Department (CYFD), I had the honor of developing an idea from photographer (and adoptive mother) Cathy Maier: to have talented photographers create inspiring portraits of older children and sibling groups who were waiting for adoption.

Research lead Esther Calzada said: «Parents» adherence to respeto (respect) may impact children not only by fostering authoritarian parenting styles but also directly, by making young children more nervous or distressed during interactions with adults who hold clear authority, such as teachers.»

Children at Risk in the Child Welfare System: Collaborations to Promote School Readiness: Final Report (PDF - 1188 KB) Catherine E. Cutler Institute for Child and Family Policy & Oldham Innovative Research (2009) Provides an analysis of data from the National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well - being as well as a case study in Colorado involving interviews with key stakeholders and statewide surveys of caseworkers and foster parents to examine how collaborations between the child welfare, early intervention / preschool special education and early care and education services meet the developmental needs of children ages 0 to 5 who are involved in the child welfare system.

This differs from the foster care approach, where children live in a variety of settings with caregivers who do not act as their legal parents or guardians.