Sentences with phrase «biological children at»

Whether this means they won't have more children, or won't be having any biological children at all, it's a personal decision moms get to make on their own.

There are a lot of choices to make, not the least of which concerns maybe wanting biological children at some point in the future.

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).

Not exact matches

However, she later found out that this wasn't the case: her mother had been unable to care for her at the time of her birth, but later married her biological father and had another child with him.

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.

I do not believe that young children should be encouraged to self - select a «gender» which may be different from their biological sex; or that everyone at school should adjust their behaviour to accommodate such a «transition»; or that people should be punished for lack of enthusiasm about it.

From a purely biological perspective, babies are absolutely helpless for a long time, and children are vulnerable, depending on what criteria of judgement you want to use, until at least their teenage years.

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.

Therefore, in recognition of the biological reality that human life begins at the moment of fertilization, the unborn child is enti.tled to the protection of the law under all circu.mstances and at every stage of pregnancy.

Therefore, in recognition of the biological reality that human life begins at the moment of fertilization, the unborn child is ent.itled to the protection of the law under all circu.mstances and at every stage of pregnancy.

You can't force a child to sleep (a real problem with teens whose biological rhythms are at odds with their school schedules).

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).

Since switching to open adoption, the yearly reunion held at The Cradle now sees children with two nametags: one for the name given to them by their biological parents and one for the name given to them by their adoptive parents.

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.

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.

As a diploma graduate in Nutrition Science, she earned her PhD at the Institute of Biological Chemistry and Nutrition, University of Hohenheim, in the field of dietary management of malnutrition among children in Ethiopia.

What is so radical about this recent transformation is that it is the age at which women give birth to their first child which is becoming comparatively high, leaving an ever more constricted window of biological opportunity for second and subsequent children, should they be desired.

In our experience at ARUGAAN — an NGO which protects, promotes and supports breastfeeding — children breastfed by biological or surrogate mothers visibly benefit in terms of health and well - being, both in the short - and long - term.

It makes biological sense that children evolved to make sure they were under an adults» radar at all times, to protect them from wolves and other dangers in the wild.

A lot of children cat nap because they aren't sleeping at times of day that align with their biological rhythms — when it is easiest for a child to not only fall asleep and stay asleep, but also get the best, most restorative rest.

Making sure a child goes down early enough, and at their proper biological times is something parents need to focus on.

Children who go to bed at the time that their bodies» biological clock tells them to go to sleep will sleep longer and more solidly.

The Helen Webster Cottage Care Project will enhance the well - being and care of the children living at Five Acres who are working towards reunification with their biological families or foster care or adoption placements.

Fact: Although there are many similarities between adoptive and biological parenting — for instance, comforting your child after a fall or taking pride in your child's achievements at school — there are many differences.

Cultural innovations and child care practices and, importantly, the dynamic social values and ideologies that legitimize them, shift quite rapidly relative to evolutionary - based changes in fundamental infant biology.1 This raises the possibility that widely recommended infant care practices can be at odds with the human infant's biological, psychological and emotional needs and expectations, at least as inferred from the human infant's evolutionary past.

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).

Briefing the Daily Graphic at Akyem Oda, the Oda Divisional Police Commander, Chief Superintendent James Sarfo - Peprah, said the children's biological mother, Fati Issah brought them from Nigeria about eight months ago, entrusted them in the care of her mother, Afise and returned to Nigeria.

The Lagos State Police Command is investigating a case of child abuse reported by Chosen Child Orphanage Home, located at Gastya Estate, Ijora - Badia on behalf of Aishat Sheriff, a 16 - year - old girl child whose upper and lower right limbs were allegedly burnt by her biological mother, one Ayo Sheriff, 30 years old, by means of electric pressing iron over minor misunderstanchild abuse reported by Chosen Child Orphanage Home, located at Gastya Estate, Ijora - Badia on behalf of Aishat Sheriff, a 16 - year - old girl child whose upper and lower right limbs were allegedly burnt by her biological mother, one Ayo Sheriff, 30 years old, by means of electric pressing iron over minor misunderstanChild Orphanage Home, located at Gastya Estate, Ijora - Badia on behalf of Aishat Sheriff, a 16 - year - old girl child whose upper and lower right limbs were allegedly burnt by her biological mother, one Ayo Sheriff, 30 years old, by means of electric pressing iron over minor misunderstanchild whose upper and lower right limbs were allegedly burnt by her biological mother, one Ayo Sheriff, 30 years old, by means of electric pressing iron over minor misunderstanding.

She passed away on Sunday, September 18 at the 37 Military Hospital, aged 88 and was survived by seven children (two biological) and eight grandchildren.

The Lagos State Police Command is investigating a case of child abuse reported by Chosen Child Orphanage Home, located at Gastya Estate, Ijora - Badia on behalf of Aishat Sheriff, a 16 - year - old girl child whose upper and lower right limbs were allegedly burnt by her biological mother, one Ayo Sherifchild abuse reported by Chosen Child Orphanage Home, located at Gastya Estate, Ijora - Badia on behalf of Aishat Sheriff, a 16 - year - old girl child whose upper and lower right limbs were allegedly burnt by her biological mother, one Ayo SherifChild Orphanage Home, located at Gastya Estate, Ijora - Badia on behalf of Aishat Sheriff, a 16 - year - old girl child whose upper and lower right limbs were allegedly burnt by her biological mother, one Ayo Sherifchild whose upper and lower right limbs were allegedly burnt by her biological mother, one Ayo Sheriff,...

In a manner of speaking, globular clusters appear capable of «adopting» baby stars — or at least the material with which to form new stars — rather than creating more «biological» children as parents in a human family might choose to do.

In a 2000 survey of postdoctoral fellows in the biological and physical sciences at the University of California (UC), Berkeley, 45 % of married women with children reported that they hadn't presented research at national conferences the previous year, compared to 24 % of all other postdocs.

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.

«We've known that children of patients with bipolar disorder have a higher risk of developing the illness but the biological mechanisms are largely unknown,» said Gabriel R. Fries, Ph.D., first author and a post-doctoral research fellow in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at McGovern Medical School at UTHealth.

«Our study shows that the early stress of separation from a biological parent impacts long - term programming of genome function; this might explain why adopted children may be particularly vulnerable to harsh parenting in terms of their physical and mental health,» said Szyf's co-author, psychologist Elena Grigorenko of the Child Study Center at Yale.

It is two years since I was in Baghdad in May 1993, but no one, however dismayed at a humanitarian situation in which half a million children have died since the Gulf War, can shrug aside the biological weapons issue.

«This research shows the intricate workings of a biological pathway crucial to the development of Huntington's disease, and is highly relevant to drug development,» said study leader Beverly L. Davidson, Ph.D., director of The Center for Cellular and Molecular Therapeutics at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP).

Children with tuberculosis meningitis — a brain and spinal cord infection that leads to disability and death — have a biological fingerprint that can be used to assess the severity of the condition, help decide the best course of treatment, and provide clues for novel treatments, scientists at the Francis Crick Institute, Imperial College London and the University of Cape Town reveal.

«With further development this technology has the potential to give investigators glimpses into biological problems that can not be answered with existing tools» says Raphael Kopan, PhD, senior author and director of Developmental Biology at Cincinnati Children's.

«Low - income children are at increased risk for developing cognitive delays, but the specific environmental and biological factors that influence these outcomes are less understood,» explains Melissa L. Sturge - Apple, assistant professor of psychology at the University of Rochester, who was part of the research team.

«In our study, transgender youth decided to pursue fertility preservation at much lower rates than we would have expected from research on reproductive desires of transgender adults, which suggests that about half want biological children and over a third would have considered preserving their fertility if techniques had been available and offered to them,» said lead author Diane Chen, PhD, a pediatric psychologist with the Gender & Sex Development Program at Lurie Children's and in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Mchildren and over a third would have considered preserving their fertility if techniques had been available and offered to them,» said lead author Diane Chen, PhD, a pediatric psychologist with the Gender & Sex Development Program at Lurie Children's and in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Northwestern University Feinberg School of MChildren's and in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.

«Using novel computational methods, we have pointed to new biological pathways that act in the brain to regulate overall obesity, and also to a different set of pathways related to fat distribution that regulate key metabolic processes,» says senior author Joel Hirschhorn, M.D., Ph.D., Concordia professor of pediatrics and professor of genetics at Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, and co-director of the Broad Institute Metabolism Program.

Several studies have shown that in households where the biological father is missing, children reach sexual maturity, have their first sexual experience, and are more likely to become teenage parents at a younger age.

«Eighty percent of them involve common biological pathways that have potential targets for future medicines,» says study investigator Ryan Yuen, research associate at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Canada.

«This is another great example of how using a synthetic «bottom - up» engineering approach and leveraging the power of biological design — this time at the scale of individual molecules interacting on cell membranes — can lead to breakthrough technologies for medicine that overcome limitations that hold back more conventional approaches,» said Wyss Institute Founding Director Donald Ingber, M.D., Ph.D., who is also the Judah Folkman Professor of Vascular Biology at Harvard Medical School and the Vascular Biology Program at Boston Children's Hospital and Professor of Bioengineering at Harvard's John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.

A team led by scientists at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital and Mayo Clinic has identified a basic biological mechanism that kills neurons in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and in a related genetic disorder, frontotemporal dementia (FTD), found in some ALS patients.

Those situations could be limited to couples who both have a serious genetic disease and for whom embryo editing is «really the last reasonable option» if they want to have a healthy biological child, says committee co-chair Alta Charo, a bioethicist at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.

«It may be the case that at some point polygenic risk scores may, in conjunction with other clinical information, help to identify children who will struggle in school and other demanding contexts due to attention difficulties,» said Dr. John Krystal, Editor of Biological Psychiatry.

Researchers at ACRI are addressing a broad spectrum of children's health concerns, such as the biological mechanisms underlying birth defects; diabetes - related complications; and numerous childhood diseases, including asthma and cancer.

Prof Barry Bogin, Professor of Biological Anthropology at Loughborough University, has written this blog about the impact of the flooding on children, which you can quote from if you want: