Sentences with phrase «as having a biological child»

Method: Families were recruited through fathers with substance use disorders or fathers representing reference groups identified as having a biological child age 10 to 12 years.

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C - level executives must advocate internally for benefits such as generous parental leave, considerations for same - sex couples who can not have biological children and student - loan repayment programs.

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.

A child conceived from artificial insemination by donor does not face the same situation as would a child having no biological and genetic father at all, but perhaps there are important similarities that could be uncovered through research.

Would you allow him to Choose whether he would want to get close to a baby knowing it was conceived within an affair, and that the biological father and his parents may wish to also be part of the childs life and he'd have to accommodate them as Would you allow him to Choose whether he would want to get close to a baby knowing it was conceived within an affair, and that the biological father and his parents may wish to also be part of the childs life and he'd have to accommodate them as would want to get close to a baby knowing it was conceived within an affair, and that the biological father and his parents may wish to also be part of the childs life and he'd have to accommodate them as well?

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 believers.

At 29, I've been hearing a lot about how it's time for me to have children — a prospect that both terrifies and thrills me, especially as the ticking of my biological clocks begins to sound more and more like a gong.

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.

Secondly, the Bill proposes to remove the need for IVF providers to take into account the child's need for a father when considering an IVF application, and to confer legal parenthood on people who have no biological relationship to a child born as a result of IVF.

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.

The Mississippi Supreme Court ruled yesterday that a nonbiological mother has the same rights as a biological one, overturning a lower court ruling that had given parental rights to her child's anonymous sperm donor instead.

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.

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?

I feel that by saying APs don't raise children as if they were their own, you're implying that APs love their children less than they would / do biological children.

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.

Having Parental Responsibility doesn't make you liable for paying child support: if you are recognised as the biological father, you will have to pay child support — whether or not you have Parental Responsibility.

As if mom shaming hasn't gone far enough, let's tell non-biological moms that what they're doing (parenting) isn't as good, or the same, as parenting a biological chilAs if mom shaming hasn't gone far enough, let's tell non-biological moms that what they're doing (parenting) isn't as good, or the same, as parenting a biological chilas good, or the same, as parenting a biological chilas parenting a biological child.

If you suspect your child has a biological delay, take him to his pediatrician to receive medication for it, such as antibiotics or a laxative.

For example, if one of your child's biological parents has hay fever or pet allergies, there's a 40 to 50 percent chance your child will have some sort of allergy as well.

Adoption costs for those who can't have biological children have risen, as has the cost of raising children in general.

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.

Ever since becoming a mother I've been very aware that motherhood through adoption is not and never will be the same as mothering your own biological children.

When images and memes circulate demeaning women who don't breastfeed or didn't breastfeed long as not having tried hard enough, being lazy, giving their child poison, being unfit mothers, and deserving of guilt for falling short of the «best is breast» mandate or «biological norm» jargon, the connections we should have are torn down, not fortified.

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 chilAs 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 chilas 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 chilas 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 chilas well, as long as the two people in the parenting relationship are together, in love and working together to raise the chilas long as the two people in the parenting relationship are together, in love and working together to raise the chilas the two people in the parenting relationship are together, in love and working together to raise the child.

While each woman is entitled to her opinion on the topic, such public figures speaking out against breastfeeding photos only serves to remind us that we've been conditioned to believe that breasts are only to be viewed publicly as sexual objects, not as biological vessels for feeding our children.

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.

The effects of breastfeeding on children's development have important implications for both public - health policies and for the design of targeted early intervention strategies to improve the developmental outcomes of children at risk as a result of biological (e.g., prematurity) or social adversity (e.g., poverty).

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.»

As a matter of fact, Nana Akufo - Addo and his present wife Rebecca do not have any biological children between them.

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.

The other questionnaire sought to discover the extent to which the teachers believed that the children's difficulties were «essential» - that is, how far they marked out the difficulties as having a distinct biological basis.

A recent report on genome editing from the National Academies did not call for a moratorium on research into germline editing, arguing that it might one day be a way for some parents to have healthy, biological children, such as when both mother and father carry genetic mutations that cause severe diseases.

In the UK, children who are born as the result of egg, sperm and embryo donation have the right, once they reach 18, to ask the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority to disclose the identity of their biological parents.

As evidence of peer influence, she also notes that siblings grow up to be very different adults; that adopted children are more like their biological parents than their adopted parents in terms of such traits as criminality; and that adolescents from poor neighborhoods are more likely to be delinquents than adolescents from middle - class neighborhoods, whereas being from a broken home has no effect on delinquencAs evidence of peer influence, she also notes that siblings grow up to be very different adults; that adopted children are more like their biological parents than their adopted parents in terms of such traits as criminality; and that adolescents from poor neighborhoods are more likely to be delinquents than adolescents from middle - class neighborhoods, whereas being from a broken home has no effect on delinquencas criminality; and that adolescents from poor neighborhoods are more likely to be delinquents than adolescents from middle - class neighborhoods, whereas being from a broken home has no effect on delinquency.

I didn't feel like I was a complete woman,» and «It (having no biological children) would label you as a failure.»

LA JOLLA, CA — A multi-institutional team headed by Ursula Bellugi, professor and director of the Laboratory for Cognitive Neuroscience at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, has been awarded a $ 5.5 million Program Project Grant by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) to link social behavior to its underlying neurobiological and molecular genetic basis using Williams syndrome as a model.

The reason is quite simple as her biological clock has run out or that she may already have children from her previous marriage.

Each child the product of artificial insemination with one of their mothers, they have survived as a content family unit until 15 year - old Laser's curiosity about his biological father throws a spanner in the works.

Having sex and relationships education (SRE) in every year of school helps children build up the understanding needed for good sexual health, and ensures that children learn about stigma and challenging prejudice as well as the biological aspects of the transmission, prevention and treatment of STIs including HIV.

If you had to step into the shoes of Brian and Maura Moon, and perceived your adopted child as a possible threat to your biological child, what would you do?

These divorces are generally those in which there is no shared property or any children involved, as it is rare for a financially intertwined marriage to have a peaceful divorce — as it is when there are shared children, either biological or adopted.

The equitable parent doctrine applies to those situations where a child was conceived and born in wedlock, and the non-biological husband seeks custody of the child as he is willing to assume all rights (custody and parenting time) and obligations (paying child support) that a biological father would have.

Situation: A wife of a married couple had extramarital affair As a result, she conceived a child by the male she had affair with The fact that the biological father isn't the husband isn't known to...

As a biological or adoptive parent, you have the responsibility to financially provide for your children.

Of course, the father in that situation may wish to confirm that he really is the biological father first because if it turns out that he is not the biological father but has been acting as a parental figure for some time anyway, then he may remain obligated to pay child support for some time even if he chooses to stop acting as a parent to the child.

Yes if he is on the birth certificate or has otherwise been named by the state as the biological or adoptive father of the child.

As far as USCIS is concerned, if a biological child lives with both biological parents, then the US citizen parent has legal custodAs far as USCIS is concerned, if a biological child lives with both biological parents, then the US citizen parent has legal custodas USCIS is concerned, if a biological child lives with both biological parents, then the US citizen parent has legal custody.

As the surviving civil partner's children are not the biological children of the deceased, they do not have a right to inherit from the deceased civil partner.