Sentences with phrase «by adopting a child»

The questions are not asked by adopted children only; they have become the questions of the larger society.

Others take chance out of the equation by adopting a child of the preferred sex.

International adoption has become an ideal resource for couples seeking to experience the joys of parenthood, and build a family by adopting children.

Charles Myers, an investment banker in the city, who struck up a friendship with him a decade ago, recalled Mr. Cuomo's enthusiasm — and calls of congratulations — when he learned that Mr. Myers and his partner planned to start a family by adopting children.

Australian actor Hugh Jackman is reportedly planning to add another member to his family by adopting another child.

Seven case studies featuring common behavioural challenges faced by adopted children, the reasons behind the behaviour and a range of strategies for schools to try.

By understanding the emotions being felt by an adopted child, parents will be able to create an environment that will show their son or daughter that they are welcome as the newest member of the family.

An intercountry / international adoption can be a good way for you to add to your family by adopting a child from a foreign country.

Not exact matches

When Ethiopia stopped allowing its children to be adopted by foreign parents in January, it became the latest country to eliminate or sharply curtail the practice.

McLachlan, a Canadian singer and songwriter, was adopted by Jack and Dorice McLachlan along with two other children.

His biological mother had two more children, who were eventually also adopted by his grandparents due to his biological mother's substance abuse problems.

Adam and Matthew previously wrote a children's book, Kidpreneurs, which is becoming widely adopted and was personally praised by President Barack Obama.

Even before the decline in international adoptions, only a tiny number of those children were adopted by families outside of their home countries.

«Rather I simply seek to place the problem in context and to give the faithful some confidence that the policies adopted by the Church to protect its children starting in the early 1990s have been effective,» O'Malley wrote.

The proposed law, submitted by MK Nitzan Horowitz (Meretz), would end the de facto discrimination between secular and religious Jews who adopt children.

Most recently, Nancy Verrier in The Primal Wound and Ronald J. Nydam in Adoptees Come of Age have argued that an adopted child never fully recovers from the fact that he or she was relinquished by birth parent (s).

Haaretz: Israel mulls annulment of law requiring parents, adopted kids to share same religion A bill that would scrap the requirement that parents be the same religion as the child they adopt will be debated Sunday by the Ministerial Committee for Legislation.

Another adopted child felt treated differently by her teacher; the teacher made comments like: «You think because you've gone through one experience in your life [the adoption], you've paid all your dues.»

The same will come for Gay and Lesbian Americans who go to work, pay their taxes, raise and / or adopt children and make great parents, by the way, and Vote!

Once the residential schools fell out of favour, the governments slowly began to close them and instead opted to take indigenous children from their families to place them to be fostered and adopted by non-indigenous families.

As you personally traveled down the road to adopting a child, and sound very hurt by your disappointment, I can only say I'm amazed you allowed my message to be posted.

Now that I am a married woman, I still use birth control because my husband and I feel convicted by God to adopt children.

Abortion is relevant only to the extent that the single or unready parenthood is encouraged by our culture; many of these children would be better off if they had been adopted as infants.

If they didn't find a couple willing to adopt the unborn child by the end of day, they would abort it, according to the priest.

Brav decided to educate the people in her city of Hilo, Hawaii, by planning a fundraiser for an orphanage in Africa, where a friend of hers was adopting two children.

An adopted child is received as a gift by her new family, just as the adopting family is a gift to the child.

Some examples: that «every single organic being around us may be said to be striving to the utmost to increase its numbers»; that «of the many individuals of any species which are periodically born, but a small number can survive»; that it is to a mother's «advantage» that her child should be adopted by another woman; that «no one is prepared to sacrifice his life for any single person, but... everyone will sacrifice it for more than two brothers, or four half - brothers or eight first cousins»; that «any variation in the least degree injurious [to a species] would be rigidly destroyed.»

And one of the main effects of this devaluation would be in its effects on the children adopted by those contracting such unions.

Nicolas Sarkozy, the president of France, recently raised a commotion by trying to educate his country's youth: Every fifth grader, he said, should adopt the story of one of France's 11,000 Jewish children killed during the Holocaust, in order to teach them about prejudice and the evils....

When we read in Scripture that we are children of God by faith in Jesus Christ, and yet we will be adopted by God we get confused.

This role might be carried out not only by supporting the mediating institutions involved, but also, as in many European countries, by adopting measures that make it easier for a parent to remain at home for the first year or two after a child is born.

Here is the definition of sexual abuse adopted by the bishops: «Sexual abuse includes contacts or interactions between a child and an adult when the child is being used as an object of sexual gratification for the adult.

The appeal is strengthened by the presence of couples eager to adopt children.

Children are lounging in foster care instead of being adopted by loving families because of the «myth.»

Though we are greatly encouraged by the fact that more and more churches are adopting child protection policies, one common mistake is that that many of these policies are being developed by those who have very little knowledge and experience with addressing child abuse.

Krish Kandiah, founder and director of the charity, was joined by foster carers, adoptive parents, adopted children, and care leavers to present postcards from foster carers, adopters, and supporters all over the country asking the Prime Minister to prioritise care for vulnerable children.

You are a hypocrite... you don't want LGBT adopting but yet you want lots of children in orphanages by denying the rights to preventative measures.

Quite often we recognize that, but then adopt strategies to duck those burdens and responsibilities by insulating ourselves from children.

Maybe you had a temporary emotional conversion, maybe you went to church regularly, maybe you read the Bible everyday and told people you were a Christian, but if you had been adopted by Christ as His child you would not fall away.

In my denomination of the PCA, we are starting to see individual churches and Presbyteries coming together for the purpose of passing a robust statement on child protection that prayerfully will be adopted by the upcoming general assembly.

Adapted from David Lebovitz who adopted it from Mastering the Art of French Cooking (Knopf) by Julia Child.

While Dairy Queen's action to remove soda is a great first step — we urge all fast - food restaurants to further improve upon their healthy options for children and adults by serving whole grain rolls, offering more fruit and vegetable options, reducing sodium across the menu, and adopting a comprehensive policy to limit the marketing of unhealthy food to children.

Each school has been «adopted» by a celebrity or public figure, exposing children to inspirational people who have worked hard for their successes.

Thus, lacking body mass, women made a virtue out of delicacy (often a rather steely delicacy); stuck with not just bearing but also raising the children, women promoted the sanctity of motherhood; deprived of upper - body strength, women made men carry things; afflicted by capricious hormonal fluctuations, women used crying as a form of interpersonal leverage; restricted from the public sphere, women commandeered domestic life; shut out of decent employment, gals adopted a «pay - to - play» strategy - men had to pay for sex, with dinners, rings, and homes.

Yet, adoptive parents, while thoroughly scrutinized by adopting agencies, are often given little information about their adopted child, in terms of family history or specific parenting skills that will help their adopted children develop strong emotional attachments.

The other thing is that three of their children are adopted and I think by having a family bed, the kids are able to bond more quickly with their family.

Some of these children are eventually reunited with their birth families, or adopted by new families, but some children spend up to two years waiting to be adopted after their parental rights have been terminated.

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.

Other: The Education Service Center Child Nutrition Program (ESC / CNP) Specialist in the Department of Agriculture reviewed all local wellness policies adopted by the school districts in their region and completed a Wellness Policy Checklist to verify all local wellness policies meet the minimum federal requirements.

CAFFA began in 1973 as the Holt Adoptive Parents Group by parents who adopted Korean children through the Holt agency.