Sentences with phrase «from biological ties»

Your authority does not stem from biological ties; there is no set reason why your freedom - loving stepkids should listen to you at all.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

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