Sentences with phrase «biological child while»

Not exact matches

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.

While Robert Kraft is not the biological father, he is thrilled with Ricki's blessing of having a healthy child.

While a woman can know for certain who fathered her child, a man can never be 100 % certain whether he is the biological father.

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.

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.

While your family may be mom, dad and three biological children, another family may be made up of children who are adopted or a mix of both biological and adopted children.

While very few would argue that a man should be able to force a woman to have a baby she does not want, at the same time most people would also expect a man to provide for a biological child even if he did not want it.

While the family was broken apart by this unfortunate situation, the fact that Leanne decided not to give her biological child to her 48 - year - old mother to raise speaks volumes about the mother's parenting abilities.

According to Gordon, while the couple were bonding with their infant daughter, whom Gordon is the biological father of, and waiting for her passport paperwork, the surrogate notified authorities that she wanted to keep the child.

While some intended mothers are able to use their own eggs in the surrogacy process and can therefore share a biological link with the child, others opt for surrogacy in order to give their partners a genetic link to their child or for other personal reasons.

As noted, many foster mothers eventually go on to be adoptive mothers, while other adoptive mothers receive their children directly from the biological mother or through other avenues.

And while it's true that their first choice may have been to have biological children, it doesn't mean that adoption is second best.

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.

While it might ensure parents get more sleep, I believe this cultural expectation to be potentially disruptive to the biological function and physiological sleep patterns of infants and young children.

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.

They expect that the biological child scenario will have the highest recall, while the pet scenario will create the lowest recall.

These patterns strongly resemble the biological clustering observed in modern plants, and suggest a dual mode of reproduction: the «grandparents» being the product of ejected waterborne propagules, while the «parents» and «children» grew from «runners» sent out by the older generation, like strawberry plants.

While most American children still live with both of their biological or adoptive parents, family structures have become more diverse in recent years, and living arrangements have grown increasingly complex.

Otherwise, what ends up happening is that if the union ends, the one biological parent may get sole legal custody of the child, while the other parent may have no legal rights.

Observing that the concept of «family» under Art 8 was not confined to marriage - based relationships, the ECtHR noted that while the 1967 European Convention on the Adoption of Children provided that the obligations of biological parents ceased on adoption, only 18 member states had ratified this Convention.

Met with biological and foster families on an ongoing basis while implementing a plan of action as outlined by the Nebraska Division of Children and Family Services caseworkers towards reunification

While Pathway Family Services operates as a high quality therapeutic foster care environment, we also are licensed as a California adoption agency, so that once it's determined a child's biological parents aren't going to regain custody of their child, resource families are able to secure their foster child's permanent future through adoption.

That share was more than twice the rate in 1980 (18 percent) and an eightfold increase from the rate in 1960 (5 percent).2 Half of the children born to unwed mothers live, at least initially, with a single mother who is not residing with the child's biological father (although about 60 percent of this group say they are romantically involved with the father), while half live with an unwed mother who is cohabiting with the child's father.3 These estimates imply that today one - fifth of all children are born into single - mother families, while another fifth are born into cohabiting - couple families.

As noted, many foster mothers eventually go on to be adoptive mothers, while other adoptive mothers receive their children directly from the biological mother or through other avenues.

While early parenthood can pose many challenges for anyone, it is particularly problematic for early and chronic female offenders, who face increased risks of pregnancy complications, socioeconomic disadvantage, relationship violence, and compromised parenting skills.41 Several studies have linked a history of maternal conduct disorder with unresponsive parenting.42 Particularly troubling are data suggesting that mothers with a history of aggression or conduct disorder, or both, pass on at least three risk factors to their offspring: antisocial biological fathers (because of assortative mating), prenatal exposure to nicotine, and coercive (hostile) parenting style.43 The most common trajectories followed by female offenders tend to increase the odds that their children will follow in their footsteps.

Family involvement and contact, and / or resolution of issues surrounding biological families» parenting, represent crucial issues demanding attention when returning children to less restrictive environments while supporting treatment gains post discharge.

According to Papernow, the best course of action is to let the biological parent retain the disciplinary role with the children, while allowing the stepparent to communicate their concerns in private to their spouse.

Meanwhile, stepparents tend to desire more order and control, while biological parents desire more love and understanding for their children.

Fact: «While public sentiment has been in favor of nonresident father's involvement in family life, there is limited research evidence of whether their involvement yields positive benefits for children (King, 1994) and for the functioning of the biological family unit... most studies, particularly those based on large national databases, have not been able to detect a significant connection between the nonresident father's contact with his child and the child's well - being (Furstenberg et al., 1987; King, 1994).

Child Abuse: While children living with their unmarried biological mother and her live - in boyfriend face a higher risk of suffering child abuse than kids in any other type of family, children who live with their own cohabiting parents are more likely to be abused than children of married parChild Abuse: While children living with their unmarried biological mother and her live - in boyfriend face a higher risk of suffering child abuse than kids in any other type of family, children who live with their own cohabiting parents are more likely to be abused than children of married parchild abuse than kids in any other type of family, children who live with their own cohabiting parents are more likely to be abused than children of married parents.

While it may appear that adopting children can be risky, the good news is that the preliminary finding of a new comprehensive study being conducted at the University of Minnesota indicates that there is minimal difference in psychological functioning between children raised in adoptive families and those in biological families.

Comment: Female older siblings are far more likely than male older siblings to be given child care responsibilities while young; teenage girls are far more likely than teenage boys to hold childcare and babysitting jobs; new mothers are far more likely to have prepared for parenthood by reading pregnancy - to - parenting articles and books as well as talking with (and spending social time with) primary caregiving women friends and relatives and their children; the ever - present months - long pregnancy itself initiates mothers into a mindset of habitual constant awareness of child - whereabouts; and various biological and hormonal factors make mothers more responsive to routine infant cues (other than severe distress cries.)

But experts said that while the findings did not establish the image of the wicked stepmother as true, they supported the conclusion that, for complex reasons, stepmothers do invest less in children than biological mothers do, with fathers, to a large extent, leaving to women the responsibility for the family's welfare.»

While at FCS I provided therapy mostly to foster children and their biological parents.

While children completed measures of emotional, cognitive, and social development, their primary caregivers (92 % biological mothers, 3 % biological fathers, and 5 % adoptive / foster parents or grandparents) were interviewed separately about their preschoolers» psychiatric symptoms using the PAPA and about their developmental skills and impairments using a variety of other measures.

-- parental / adoptive benefits (35 weeks maximum), which are available to biological or adoptive parents while they are caring for a newborn or newly adopted child, and may be taken by either parent or shared between them;