Sentences with phrase «biological children as»

During that time, Smith raised his partner's two biological children as his own.

What if you accidentally slip up and use a hurtful phrase, such as referring to a biological child as «a child of your own»?

They eventually had a biological child as well, whom they loved just the same as / differently from each of their adopted children.

Not exact matches

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.

This week Biles danced to Chris Tomlin's «Good Good Father,» which she explained was partially a tribute to her biological grandfather who adopted her after she was placed in the foster care system as a child.

As parents of children and children of parents, we are marked by the biological communities in which we find ourselves.

When we think about the bond of parents and children, we must think first of the family as a biological community.

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.

But even on that front, it's not clear that encouraging adoption and including adoptive children as regular, normal children on the same level as biological ones makes adoption normative in the way biological children might be.

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 well?

For the only way to make option three work is to ignore biological nature, which tells us that from conception onward the child is as human as you or me (does anyone imagine that a dog is growing in there?)

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.

Separated from the biological reality of a child, any definition of male or female is as good as any other.

So, God bless the atheists, because they are like blind children and blind children need blessings as they go about their strictly defined biological needs of being part - timers in God's employment program of which they are not aware.

As soon as children appear, love is no longer autonomous but serves the biological purposes of the race.&raquAs soon as children appear, love is no longer autonomous but serves the biological purposes of the race.&raquas children appear, love is no longer autonomous but serves the biological purposes of the race.»

Marriage is, as Russell argues, a biological institution to beget and rear children for the ends of particular communities.

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.

We got to know his biological children that night and realized that he treated us the same way he treated them — as his family.

Woman's natural endowments (meaning her biological deficiencies) destine her rather to find fulfillment in marriage as her husband's full - time helpmate, mother of his (preferably numerous) children, keeper of his household, and vicarious participant in his victories.

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.

Thus, children are exposed to the risk of coming into the world as strangers, in which the biological ties that form the natural family are arbitrarily broken.

This is important because it helps create a situation where dads (by which we mean the full diversity of men with a significant caring role in children's lives, including biological and other fathers and father - figures), as well as mums (in a similarly diverse sense), feel comfortable and valued — in the context of a culture which still privileges women as more naturally suited to caring, and more important as parents (and by extension, less important in other contexts, eg the workplace).

As far as I can tell, they are her biological childreAs far as I can tell, they are her biological childreas I can tell, they are her biological children.

Grandparents, step - parents, same - sex partners and other people with day to day care of a child can be awarded Parental Responsibility as well as the biological parents.

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.

There are 12 times as many cohabiting couples today as there were in the 1970s and 40 percent of first babies born to single mothers are born to cohabiting couples who rarely make it past five years; in fact some two - thirds of the unmarried moms split from the child's biological father and start a new relationship before the kid is 5 years old — how do we «save» those families?)

Taste buds also mature at different rates and it could be something as simple as a child's taste buds aren't mature enough to handle a particular substance (this is biological and very different from a child's emotional maturity being ready to handle the new items).

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.

• Dunn (2008) reports a strong correlation between children in separated families perceiving themselves as distant from their biological fathers, and childhood depression.

He / she is issued a falsified birth certificate called an «amended birth certificate» that lists the adoptive parents as the child's biological parents.

• The stepfather - child relationship is substantially more challenging than the biological - father - child relationship: the relationship is not as close; stepfathers are less affectionate and more coercive with stepchildren; and stepchildren tend to be less warm and affectionate with stepfathers — even in long - term fairly successful stepfamilies (for review see Radhakrishna et al, 2001).

Breastfeeding, as the biological standard, helps infants and children begin life as nature intended.

This is an in - depth and far - reaching conversation that includes dialogue about euthanasia, blood transfusions, medical experimentation without consent, research fraud, vaccines as biological weapons, autism, the rape of autistic children, the rape of medical patients — especially during hospital birth, birth trauma, trauma - based mind - control, circumcision, satanism / luciferianism, psychopathy, Agenda 21, and the deliberate attempt to kill and / or render infertile and / or genetically mutate the human race.

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.

Moreover, clearly classifying symptoms may lead a child psychotherapist to refer a child to a medical doctor when symptoms appear to overlap or present as a biological illness.

A falsified «amended» one is issued listing the adoptive parents as the child's biological parents.

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?

Yes your adopted child is yours and you will love this child as if it were your biological child.

Forming a conduit between the child and her biological kin can also serve the child well as she does her life's work of gathering her pieces and building her identity.

The tricky part is that children need our support to keep their innate skills — as you feed your children, they will do best if you do so in a way that reflects your trust in their biological wisdom.

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.

I hope that as your biological child grows the other parents can become more open to allowing access to his / her genetic family, too.

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.

It's hard to enough to admit our children are growing up, but it can be downright embarrassing to talk about the biological changes your daughter will experience as she grows into a woman.

The long - term goal of Dr. Aleeca Bell's research program is to promote optimal birth & exemplary birth care by understanding the biological underpinnings linking the birth experience with maternal - child outcomes, such as postpartum mood and mother - infant interaction.

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.