Sentences with phrase «biological ties in»

United States About Blog Choice DNA paternity test results are also used as legal evidence to establish biological ties in a family - based immigration petitions.

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God neither requires the physical, nor is he a biological entity (this also ties in to what I said previously about Godâ $ ™ s tangibility or intangibility).»

But even when we understand why, for example, the New Testament writers went to great pains to confirm Jesus» birth in Old Testament predictions of a Savior, or to relate his biological lineage to King David, or to tie his betrayal and death to other Old Testament prophecies («so that the scriptures might be fulfilled»)-- we still are left with a fragmentary puzzle instead of a clear picture of the «real» Jesus.

They grow up with a belief about the nature of the embryo, so events in their lives lead them 10 believe that the embryo is a unique person, or a fetus; that people are intimately tied to their biological roles, or that these roles are but a minor part of life: that motherhood is the most important and satisfying role open to a woman, or that motherhood is only one of several roles, a burden when defined as the only role.

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.

A new study suggests that social ties may be more responsible than biological factors in changing adolescents» sleep patterns.

(Another side note: I have childhood memories tied to my biological mom also since I was raised in an open adoption — but that would be a post in and of itself!)

Just two days after the state's highest court expanded the definition of a parent to include caretakers who did not officially adopt or do not have biological ties to their children — a Manhattan mom was the first to benefit from the new ruling in a custody case yesterday.

«We have to see how this ties in» to other biological and genetic theories about the origins of autism.

But the success of an in vitro procedure is far from guaranteed, especially when the mother is in her mid-thirties or older, so cloning one of the parents may be their final hope for having a child with a biological tie.

The findings are the first to tie social and biological factors together using population data in determining causes for low birth weight.

REU participants will conduct original research via specially designed student projects within three main foci: 1) Microgel and Hydrogel Nanoparticles: Designing environmentally sensitive nanoparticles for a variety of applications and fundamental studies of volume phase transitions; 2) Anisotropic Soft Matter Thin Films: Driving self - assembly of soft matter to develop thin films with unique properties tied to the shape anisotropy of the materials; and 3) Soft Matter Fluid Flow: Striving to better understand and to improve mixing in liquid soft matter systems and use liquid flow to test and understand biological phenomena.

As Garcia puts it: «Men's orgasm rates are likely under strong selective pressure (in evolutionary biological terms) so insofar as orgasm is tied to male ejaculation — which has clear reproductive consequences — we expect that males likely orgasm relatively predictively with familiar partners.»

In keeping with both the social and biological factors that appear to have intimately tied red and romance, studies show that men regard women who display this shade more appealing across a range of situations, such as hitchhiking and waitressing.

Where the plot fails to add complexity, it delivers in its message: reminding us that in the face of mindless violence and intolerance (and the threat of biological warfare) we must focus on what unites us to rise above those who would rupture the ties we have crafted.

In Swiss law, unless the adoptive parent is married to the biological parent, adoption severs the parental tie between child and biological parents.

The only reason children usually have strong ties to biological fathers in our society is that in most nuclear intact households, our cultural ideal, there are two full - time resident adults, and the father happens to be one of them.

Today, approximately 41 percent of children are born to unmarried parents and nearly one - third of children live apart from at least one of their biological parents.1 These changes in family structure are cause for concern because unmarried fathers have no automatic legal ties to their children, and children living apart from at least one parent are considerably more likely to live in poverty and spend less time with the noncustodial parent.2

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.»

«The stronger association between adolescent outcomes and ties to nonresident mothers compared with ties to stepmothers stands in contrast to the results reported in prior research on resident mother families where close ties to resident stepfathers are more strongly associated with positive adolescent outcomes than ties to nonresident biological fathers (King, 2006; White & Gilbreth, 2001), suggesting important differences in the role of nonresident parents and stepparents by gender....

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.»