Sentences with phrase «biological children even»

They insist there are no differences between adoptive and biological children even if they are unable to make a reasonable comparison.

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.

Not exact matches

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.

Even if for unfortunate circumstances, a particular child can not have its own biological parents, the child is in general still better off having a mother and father.

Even adopted children know that they originate from the love and the desire of their parents, even when these are not their biological pareEven adopted children know that they originate from the love and the desire of their parents, even when these are not their biological pareeven when these are not their biological parents.

Father's Day gives your children the opportunity to honor all of the men in their lives, from biological fathers to father - figures — like grandfathers, uncles, mentors, and even friends and neighbors who play an active role in their lives.

• 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).

A biological father (who in the eyes of the child is «the other person who made me») is always significant to his child — even if they never meet.

A child might be a super taster, might have sensory issues but if you have only fed them good food then even their biological limits will be healthy ones.

Additionally, when orphaned or double - orphaned children are foisted off on relatives, they can fall to second priority over biological children and even end up in abusive or forced labor situations.

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.

Note that a child can be a ward of the court and still have contact with his or her biological parents or even still be living with the parents (albeit under court supervision).

The British Columbia Supreme Court recently ruled that a man who was misled into believing he was the biological father of a child does not owe any continued child support for that child even though he was found to have assumed the role of a parent during the early years of the child's life.

Meanwhile, the mother was still receiving child support from the girl's biological father, even though he had never seen or even met his daughter.

If you are caring for a child, even if you are not the child's biological parent, you may very well be entitled to receive financial support.

The Tribunal concluded the employer discriminated against the employee on the basis of family status when it gave top - up benefits for parental leave to adoptive parents but denied them to biological parents, depriving the employee of money and time with his child — and awarded him a paid parental leave with top - up even though the child was no longer an infant.

Definition — «child of the marriage» --(s. 2 (1)-RRB- child of two spouses (former spouses), even if one parent is not the biological parent (but stands in loco parentis) who at the time is:

Of course, the father in that situation may wish to confirm that he really is the biological father first because if it turns out that he is not the biological father but has been acting as a parental figure for some time anyway, then he may remain obligated to pay child support for some time even if he chooses to stop acting as a parent to the child.

Separating them into different households can be cruel, and one child may prefer to live with the biological parent of his half - sibling, even if it means leaving a full - blooded sibling behind.

For example, some have found significant differences between children with divorced and continuously married parents even after controlling for personality traits such as depression and antisocial behavior in parents.59 Others have found higher rates of problems among children with single parents, using statistical methods that adjust for unmeasured variables that, in principle, should include parents» personality traits as well as many genetic influences.60 And a few studies have found that the link between parental divorce and children's problems is similar for adopted and biological children — a finding that can not be explained by genetic transmission.61 Another study, based on a large sample of twins, found that growing up in a single - parent family predicted depression in adulthood even with genetic resemblance controlled statistically.62 Although some degree of selection still may be operating, the weight of the evidence strongly suggests that growing up without two biological parents in the home increases children's risk of a variety of cognitive, emotional, and social problems.

Kinship caregivers provide a way for children to stay connected with their biological family even when they can not live with their birth parents.

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.

Often adopted children didn't even know they were adopted and grew up believing their adoptive parents were their biological parents.

We have also found a secure attachment to be a major protective factor for children who function in a competent fashion even in the face of adversity.13 In addition, attachment relationships may have long - term effects on functioning by influencing the course of biological development, including brain development.

Other studies are adoption studies; for example, adoption studies of antisocial personality disorder show that if a biological parent passes down his or her antisocial disorder through genetics, then the child will suffer from the disorder even within the adoptive environment, away from the biological parent.

Moreover, research shows that even after one controls for a range of family background differences, children who grow up living in an intact household with both biological parents present seem to do better, on average, on a wide range of social indicators than do children who grow up in a single - parent household (McLanahan and Sandefur, 1994).

A loophole in Washington's child custody laws allows children to be adopted by foster parents even as their biological parents continue their fight for custody.

Research has documented that even in spite of neglect and / or abuse children still have an attachment to their biological parents, albeit a sick one, but an attachment all the same.

If parenting a child who was removed from his parents due to abuse or neglect, parents should be aware that traditional parenting is not the best approach to use even if it worked for their biological children.

We are conducting a secondary analysis study using a prospective multi-generation data set involving children (N = 265, ~ 50 % girls at age 5 years) of the Oregon Youth Study (OYS) men and the children's biological mothers (even if the couple has separated) from the Three Generational Study (3GS).

[I must point out that it should be a «seemingly obvious proposition» that children do best in one stable, permanent, stress - free and financially secure child - centered home, with one (or two) authoritative, loving parents (married or not), preferably well - educated and well - adjusted, whose focus is on selflessly and cooperatively contributing to and optimizing the child's environment and opportunies — and that it is irrelevant, except to the extent on a case - by - case basis that this indirectly impacts those real factors that affect child wellbeing, whether the parental captain at the helm of this ship consists of one or two parents, biological parents, or even heterosexual parents.

The effects of the intervention also generalized to positively influence parent and child behaviours during a shared book reading activity, even though this activity was not a specific focus of the intervention.23 The intervention worked equally well with children who were or were not at high biological risk.13, 22 This supports the notion that responsiveness facilitates learning through parental sensitivity and willingness to meet young children's individual needs.

Russ contends that» [b] lind adherence to the family preservation policy using a biological definition of family often flies in the face of the» «best interests of the child»» and has led to the abuse, neglect, abandonment, and even death of literally thousands of children in our country.»

Macrostructural, normative, internalized, and even biological aspects of the gender system may allow, encourage, or sanction mothers to participate in a wide range of activities and forms of communication with their adolescent children, irrespective of living arrangements.»

These children may be placed in Children's Homes or foster families for different lengths of time before being adopted, returned to their biological families or even staying in Alternative Care until they reach adchildren may be placed in Children's Homes or foster families for different lengths of time before being adopted, returned to their biological families or even staying in Alternative Care until they reach adChildren's Homes or foster families for different lengths of time before being adopted, returned to their biological families or even staying in Alternative Care until they reach adulthood.

Even biological children test the boundaries.

But I do know, even biological children can give you a run for your money.