Sentences with phrase «biological children in»

The two parent factors that appear to influence how youth develop therapeutic alliance with their treatment parents are the presence of biological children in the home and the race of the parent.

Having biological children in the treatment home may provide a role model for the youth in terms of how to have a relationship with a parental figure.

I consulted with foster parents, children who were in foster care and parents who had their biological children in foster care.

I'm aware of her adoption in my mind but she is my biological child in my heart.

Not exact matches

And like most children who were adopted in the 60's, everything about my biological parents, my genealogy and how I came to be adopted remain cloaked behind a veil of secrecy.

NEW YORK (Reuters)- In a landmark ruling for non-traditional families in New York, the state's highest court on Tuesday held a person need not have a biological or adoptive relationship with a child to be considered a parenIn a landmark ruling for non-traditional families in New York, the state's highest court on Tuesday held a person need not have a biological or adoptive relationship with a child to be considered a parenin New York, the state's highest court on Tuesday held a person need not have a biological or adoptive relationship with a child to be considered a parent.

Biological changes are happening earlier in children around the world - in 1860, the average age for European girls to develop breasts was 16.6 years.

Furthermore, any child entering your home, either by adoptive or biological means, is never anything less than a miracle in the first place — 25 or 35, it's all God.

Truthfully, any child showing up in someone's home via adoptive or biological means is nothing short of a miracle.

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.

But when, by contrast, parental love is grounded in the facts of biological and historical bonding, the child lives in a setting offering the kind of acceptance human beings need in order themselves to become capable of adult commitment — a setting in which individuals who are separate but connected can grow and flourish.

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.»

Normal people don't look up statistics, but they know, in their bones, that many children will grow up without their biological father in the house.

For example, on the purely physical or biological level, it is evident that a normal and fully grown man is «freer» in the use of his hands, arms, legs, etc., than a child is.

But being a stepmother is like being in - between — not fully mother (I have no biological children of my own), not fully childless either.

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.

She said: «What we need is a culture in our schools which gives emotional support to children through puberty without encouraging them to make life - long decisions against their natural born biological sex.

Can't wait for psychiatrists to start prescribing my children and I medication because we have a biological proclivity to believe in illusions.

In recent televised legal battles, juries returned an adopted child to a biological parent years after the adoption had been finalized.

Now they have become «one flesh» literally, in the blending of their biological heritages in a child.

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.

The moment some raises the point that children ideally are raised in a home with their own biological mothers and fathers, the cry goes up that this hardly ever happens.

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?)

If parents can give a child the gift of a complicated and subtle language, they can be trusted to pass on the relatively little biological information that children need to know about sex, and in a manner that, most likely of all methods, will place it in the context of the language of love and life.

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 believerIn 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 believerin heaven for the believers.

She supports a woman's right to an abortion, is against the death penalty and corporal punishment, is not in favor of adopted children digging up their biological parents against their wishes, and believes that Dr. Jack Kevorkian and the incurably ill people who turn to him for painless deaths should be left alone.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

In the meantime, science marched on, confirming and reconfirming and reconfirming yet again the biological fact of the humanity of the child in the womIn the meantime, science marched on, confirming and reconfirming and reconfirming yet again the biological fact of the humanity of the child in the womin the womb.

For our people, baptism of infants is not just a sacrament of initiation of our Catholic Church, but also a biological - anthropological event which binds the child and the community together in a profound and lasting blood - spiritual relationship.

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.

Founded in 1989, Center Families programs include support groups for LGBT parents and prospective parents; trainings for teachers and school administrators; advocacy and activist efforts; support around alternative insemination and other biological parenthood options; forums on custody issues when LGBT parents separate; financial planning for alternative families; and recreational programs for children 8 and under (Halloween Parties, Holiday Parties, Play Days, etc.).

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).

One of the joys I have found is that with all six of my children, I see no difference in skin color and no difference between biological and adoptive.

For example, a child may have emotional or biological sensitivities to specific foods or around certain routines and behaviors, and tactics used by grandparents may not be helpful in working through the emotional interferences.

Part of the evidence supporting this belief comes from neuroscience and pediatrics, where recent research shows that harsh or unstable environments can create biological changes in the growing brains and bodies of infants and children.

Journal of Economic Psychology, 25, p.1 - 14 Flouri, E. (2004) «Correlates of parents» involvement with their adolescent children in restructured and biological two - parent families: The role of child characteristics.»

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.

What would be so wrong about insisting individuals who want to raise children — whether they're single, married, living together, in a civil union or whatever; straight or gay; and whether the child is biological or adopted — take parenting classes, outline a parenting plan, and have to prove him / herself financial responsible before he / she could apply for a parenting license and pop out a baby?

Take the stance that men have to be involved in assessments and family interventions for the sake of their children; refuse to accept a referral without reference to the biological father and to any key father - figures.

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?)

The M.O.R.G.A.N. Project The M.O.R.G.A.N. Project stands for Making Opportunities Reality Granting Assistance Nationwide.This group, established by parents Robert and Kristen Malfara, supports families in their journey of raising a special needs child, be that child biological, adopted or within the foster care system.

Supporting children's relationship to their biological parent who does not live in the stepfamily is important to healthy development.

The percentage of domestic and international adoptions represented in CAFFA is almost equal, with many families consisting of both biological and adoptive children.