Sentences with phrase «biological children despite»

Parents who claim adopted children as dependents are required to pay child support at the same rate as parents with biological children despite the payment of any adoption assistance.

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It is really troubling to me that, despite the number of new orphans the earthquake produced, Haiti is still clinging to it's archaic rules about couples needing to be married for 10 years, and to have no biological children, and be over 30 years old, in order to adopt.»

Children who thrive despite hardship usually have both a biological resistance to adversity and strong relationships with at least one adult in their family or community.

Are you the child's biological parent despite not being listed on the certificate?

Despite having no biological connection to the child, he was granted joint physical and legal custody.

Despite your new marital status and desire to be with your spouse, you may not be allowed to move your child across state lines if it will greatly impair the relationship between the child and other biological parent.

Foster children are also more likely to have growth abnormalities and untreated health problems.38 Despite the trend in these data, some scholars have suggested that the negative health outcomes attributed to foster children are not distinct from those found among children living with their impoverished biological families.

For example, in the NSCAW study, foster children with experiences of severe maltreatment exhibited more compromised outcomes.32 Other scholars suggest that foster care may even be a protective factor against the negative consequences of maltreatment.33 Similarly, it has been suggested that foster care results in more positive outcomes for children than does reunification with biological families.34 Further, some studies suggest that the psychosocial vulnerability of the child and family is more predictive of outcome than any other factor.35 Despite these caveats, the evidence suggests that foster care placement and the foster care experience more generally are associated with poorer developmental outcomes for children.

An unanswered question for future research to explore is why close ties to resident stepmothers do not result in better outcomes for adolescents despite the fact that adolescents report being closer on average to resident stepmothers than to nonresident biological mothers and as close to nonresident biological mothers who maintain contact with their children.»

Dads of Michigan PAC is an independent volunteer political advocacy group dedicated to legislation keeping both biological parents actively engaged in the lives of their children despite divorce and custody, in most instances.

Yet, gender imbalances in father - stepmother guidance and daily care of children tended to dominate in these interview findings despite biological fathers» longer term relationships and biological ties with their children that their current wives did not have... fathers» work obligations sometimes created situations in which children were left for long periods under the sole care of the stepmother.»