Sentences with phrase «families of adopted children»

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

The president of the Club for Growth, an influential group promoting tax cuts, issued a statement Tuesday saying parts of the House bill «fails the pro-growth test,» while social conservative groups pushed lawmakers to restore a tax credit for families who adopt children.

Meanwhile, groups including the National Right to Life Committee, Focus on the Family and the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops mobilized to restore an existing tax credit that's worth up to $ 13,570 for families who adopt children.

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.

It's not unusual for families to find children with Down syndrome to adopt on social media, said Diane Grover, founder and president of the International Down Syndrome Coalition.

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.

The reason the government has ANY control over marriage is not a religious one but one that involves the welfare of children which families may have or adopt.

Hearing about the specific needs of children often sparks a desire to adopt children who seem to have lost their families.

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

Out of real generosity, families are often willing to expend huge sums of money to adopt a child.

At the same time, the whole process of creating an adoptive family raises many concerns about identity and belonging; concerns not unlike those we are all faced with: Three professionals who work with adoptive families (Anderson, Piantanida, and Anderson, 1993) list the questions about identity and belonging that an adopted child will likely have as she or he reaches adolescence:

Other witnesses argued that, inasmuch as almost 25,000 married couples in France have been approved but wait an average of five years to be able to adopt because fewer than 5,000 adoptions take place each year, it is possible to provide every adoptable child with a father and a mother who will offer him or her the best chance of integrating into a new family.

Peyré therefore feels that «bringing an adopted child into a society in which he or she will have the same rights and the same place as other children» as the Hague Convention provides» requires that the child be received into pre-existing family structures, already recognized as such, and not serve as an instrument for obtaining recognition of new family structures.»

There is an extraordinary passage in Ezekiel 16, where the history of Israel is told in the form of a romantic tale about a foundling child who was adopted into a rich family and then went to the bad.)

But worship in Jesus» name is the practice of a community with a common, communal identity, not an aggregate of individuals, because it is a response to the way God's presence in Jesus has made them a new extra-familial family of God's adopted «children,» a new extra-national «people,» a single «body.»

And according to Rogers this understanding goes a long way in explaining why «non-standard» families can be full reflections of the Imago Dei: Sterile couples, step - families, adopted children, gay marriages, etc..

As many of you know, Scott and I are in the process of adopting through LA County DCFS (Department of Child and Family Services).

We're adopting through LA County DCFS (Department of Child and Family Services), so Bright Eyes is currently living in a foster care placement.

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.

So we found it perfect to feature the Ham family of Arizona on our cover; Steven and Roger Ham are raising twelve adopted children.

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.

If you adopt a child from foster care, you're eligible for a monthly government subsidy — an average of $ 846 a month, according to Adoptive Families.

Adopted children may (or may not) want to include the genealogy of their birth families.

When you're raising or helping to raise a child that is not biologically your own, whether you're a stepparent in a blended family, have adopted or foster children, or are bringing up your grandchildren, kids may sometimes use this fact against you during the heat of an argument.

Once adopted, the child becomes a legal member of a family other than his / her biological one.

Every adoptive family and each adopted child brings with them an inspiring story of hope and courage.

The story he tells about his family's journey through adopting and gently parenting his daughter, Elena, is an inspiration to all parents struggling through the newborn phase, coping with the realities of a special - needs child, or hoping to parent their children in a more healthy way than they themselves were raised.

It is up to parents to decide for their family whether to allow their child to start, or continue, playing football, not some present or former player, journalist or scientist who takes the position that football is either too dangerous to be played by anyone or safe enough to be played by all (October 25, 2015 update: this is exactly the position adopted by the American Academy of Pediatrics in its 2015 Policy Statement on Tackling in Youth Football in which it leaves parents - presumably in consultation with their child's pediatrician - to «decide whether the potential health risks of sustaining... injuries [in tackle football] are outweighed by the recreational benefits associated with proper tackling»); and

To assure that all professionals across disciplines who work with infants, young children, and their families have adequate skills, knowledge, and experiences to provide relationship - based services, AK - AIMH adopted a framework of infant mental health competencies that is gaining recognition across the nation.

If an agency hikes up the adoption fees for the most «in demand» babies (typically white, healthy newborns) while «discounting» the adoption fees for babies in less demand (children of color, especially males), they are not only baby selling (see point # 1), but they are also allowing only the wealthier families to adopt white children while «limiting» less wealthy families to children of color.

With states and counties showing increased interest in adopting evidence - based methods for preventing or reducing child maltreatment and for parent training of families involved with child welfare services, it is now time to test this array of science - informed and promising parent training programs and program components on a national scale.

He was surprised to discover that the celebration was in his honor to recognize all he had done for hundreds of families who adopted children during his career.

The adopted children of FRUA's families come from all former Soviet block countries and republics, a geographic area that spans ten time zones and crosses Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and the central - western regions of Asia.

Home Study A process whereby an individual or couple undergo a study by a licensed public or private agency to assure the well - being of the child in the home and the readiness of the family to adopt.

There were 764 children in Louisiana's foster care system that were adopted into the permanent homes of 528 families breaking the previous record of 735 foster care adoptions into 532 families.

In Lehigh and Northampton counties, there is a total of 34 families waiting to adopt foster children.

Domestic Adoption: Sometimes children are adopted directly from their birth families using the services of adoption attorneys or adoption agencies to make sure that the legal requirements are met.

Adoption Agency An organization that is licensed to prepare families to adopt children and to do all the necessary legal, administrative and social work to insure that adoptions are efficiently handled and are in the best interests of the children.

So every week fifty percent of the proceeds goes to either Feed the Children or a family fundraising to adopt internationally a child with special needs.

Once you find an adopting family that meets your needs, be sure to meet them face - to - face and create a plan in the best interests of your child.

How to address and confront the insidious forms of racism transracially adoptive families are now aware of since adopting their child.

Kembert and hundreds of other children in Haiti had already had their adoptions approved but only needed a signature by an official so they could go home with their adopted families.

The Department of Human Services in Iowa is set to implement new changes for families that receive state financial assistance to adopt children.

N: It can be challenging to help others grasp a bigger picture of adoption outcomes; children who are adopted may have different perspectives and feelings than their birth and / or adoptive families.

AQ Lens: For adopted children this book can offer an easy opening to discussing race as well as the many ways in which children can be both different and similar to their adopted families — and / or their birth families if they have an open adoption or knowledge of their birth information.

These benefits include but are not limited to the power of the human touch and presence, of being surrounded by supportive people of a family's own choosing, security in birthing in a familiar and comfortable environment of home, feeling less inhibited in expressing unique responses to labor (such as making sounds, moving freely, adopting positions of comfort, being intimate with her partner, nursing a toddler, eating and drinking as needed and desired, expressing or practicing individual cultural, value and faith based rituals that enhance coping)-- all of which can lead to easier labors and births, not having to make a decision about when to go to the hospital during labor (going too early can slow progress and increase use of the cascade of risky interventions, while going too late can be intensely uncomfortable or even lead to a risky unplanned birth en route), being able to choose how and when to include children (who are making their own adjustments and are less challenged by a lengthy absence of their parents and excessive interruptions of family routines), enabling uninterrupted family boding and breastfeeding, huge cost savings for insurance companies and those without insurance, and increasing the likelihood of having a deeply empowering and profoundly positive, life changing pregnancy and birth experience.

If you want your child to grow up with another child, there are plenty of families with children who would love to adopt your baby.