Trystan Reese and his partner, Biff Chaplow, have welcomed their first
biological child together!
While their story of being «accidental gay parents» drew the attention of international media, they decided to expand their family by having their first
biological child together.
Not exact matches
The study, which confirms that the «gold standard» for the rearing of
children is the intact
biological family, of married mom and dad staying
together faithfully and raising their own offspring, naturally causes a furor.
For our people, baptism of infants is not just a sacrament of initiation of our Catholic Church, but also a
biological - anthropological event which binds the
child and the community
together in a profound and lasting blood - spiritual relationship.
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?
Put 1 and 2
together and the affective tie or maternal love between mother and
child has a
biological basis.
Only with a larger pool of foster and adoptive families to choose from, can the New Jersey State of Division of Youth and Family Services make better initial placement decisions and keep more siblings
together, when circumstances require the removal of
children from their
biological homes.
And that can be tough for kids who are still struggling to deal with the fact that their
biological parents are no longer
together or that their time of being an only
child with heaps of attention has come to an end.
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.
Even more striking is the discovery that there is no correlation in intelligence between an adopted
child and a
biological child raised
together, while there is a correlation between
biological siblings who are adopted and brought up apart.
What had been important to women earlier in their lives (e.g. connection, communication, approval,
children, making sure the family stayed
together) is no longer their
biological priority.
Last, please choose a song for your next speech that does not invite parochialisms and dangerous forms of patriotism, but that fuels our internal drive to build bridges of solidarity, to reach out to others beyond geo - political borders, to expect and act towards a bright prospect for ALL
children (and elderly people, and adults) EVERYWHERE (regardless of place of birth, faith,
biological differences, inherited circumstances or life choices), a song that may remind us of the power and indispensability of plurality as an integral part of the collective future we share —
together in one finite and fragile planet.
Who commits «domestic violence» 2 (1) Domestic violence occurs when a person is subjected to an act or omission mentioned in subsection (1.1) by another person who (a) is cohabiting or has cohabited with him or her in a spousal, conjugal or intimate relationship; (b) has or had a family relationship with him or her, in which they have lived
together; (c) has or had a family relationship with him or her, in which they have not lived
together; (d) has or had a dating relationship with him or her, whether or not they have ever lived
together; or (e) is the other
biological or adoptive parent of his or her
child, regardless of their marital status or whether they have ever lived
together.
36 The referring court asks whether the fact that the applicant for a residence permit lives
together with his spouse, is not the
biological father of the
child who is a Union citizen, and does not have custody of the
child may affect the interpretation to be given to the provisions on citizenship of the Union.
Taken
together, these findings suggest that concurrent planning may more naturally occur when
children are in the potentially permanent homes of relatives who support their reunification with their
biological parents.
We use a team treatment approach, and work
together with the
child's foster parent or caregiver, the
child's Social Worker, FFA Social Worker and
Children's Attorney, and the
biological parents (when appropriate) to ensure comprehensive care.
Thus, this study adds to the small body of literature in
children that demonstrates both
biological and behavioral outcomes from early intervention with preschoolers at risk for psychiatric disorders.20, 48
Together these studies underscore the plasticity of the HPA system in young
children and suggest the potential for early intervention across
biological and behavioral domains.
This,
together with findings that some of the behaviours characteristic of attachment disorganisation have also been found in
children with developmental disorders [73, 74] imply that
biological factors such as the infant's capability to organise environmental stimuli, communicate and regulate internal states and behaviour may also contribute to the development of disorganised attachment.
Father figures may become closer to
children when they are more «embedded» in family life with clearly - defined responsibilities, perhaps through longer residence, marriage to the
child's mother, or having step - and
biological children living
together in the same household (Marsiglio et al., 2010).
The analysis sample for this section is a subset of the main analysis sample used elsewhere in the report, and consists of 1,967 families where the
biological parents and
child all lived
together from the baseline survey (
child aged 10 months) until the
child was approximately 10 years old.
The sample is composed of parents residing
together with their
biological child at the time the
child is 9 months old, where both the mother and father completed the self - report interview (N = 5,788).
Together, these trends have left 1 in 3
children without a
biological father in the home — a significant disadvantage associated with higher rates of school dropout, behavioral problems, and teen pregnancy.
Mothers completed an item inquiring whether she and the
child's
biological father were living
together (score = 0) or apart (score = 1) at the time of the current assessment.
In the parents of
children with ASD group the inclusion criteria for the primary caregivers were as follows: (a) their
child had a medical diagnosis of Asperger syndrome or childhood autism according to ICD - 10 [55] criteria; (b) their
child had no intellectual disability; c) their
child lived at home with them; (d) their
child was between 5 and 17 years old; (e) their
child attended a mainstream or inclusive school; (f) no concomitant conditions in
children with ASD; (g) no developmental disorders or serious health problems in other
children in the family; (h) the parents were partners and living
together; (i) both of them completed the questionnaires; (j) both of them were
biological parents of the
child.
A stepparent is a living, breathing grief trigger, an adult whose very presence reminds the
child that their
biological parents are no longer
together.»