Sentences with phrase «had their biological children in»

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

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.

Not exact matches

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.

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.»

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

And during that time, we became involved with a support group to help us through the process and getting advice on what to do in terms of experiencing the grief and a loss of not having a biological child.

Esther has experience working with parents and young children in biological, foster, and adoptive homes.

Have the Biological parent tell the child about the new baby on the way and assure them of their special place in the family.

Second, our interviews and research have found that many men who initially sign up as a parenting partner with the intention to be simply a known donor (i.e., where his identity and contact information is available to the family and his biological child) actually end up becoming significantly involved in the child's life.

However, we had a newborn baby girl in our care (not our biological child) for about 2 months that we were going to adopt.

I think that might just apply in this case: children develop resistance to bad biologicals in part by being exposed to them, so maybe all those bologna and cheese sandwiches I took to school as a kid helped keep me from having to be spoon - fed a diet of sterile Pablum the rest of my life, eh?

But what of the parents whose biological children have serious illnesses like the children in the story?

Parents who have biological or adopted children turn out to be happier in general than parents who have stepchildren.

About 40 % of children who do not live with their biological father have not seen him during the past 12 months; more than half of them have never been in his home and 26 % of those fathers live in a different state than their children.

Birth parents have considered all possible options for raising their biological child and have come to the respectable decision that the child's care would best be in the hand's of another family who can better provide for the child.

She's interested in an «ethic of responsible parenthood,» which sounds good on surface but borders on elitism once you start exploring what that may mean: George Lucas adopted two children as a single man and I will bet that Sawhill would not insist that he have a partner first and wait until they are «ready to be parents» — he was wealthy enough to hire surrogate moms until he married again and, last year, became a biological dad at age 69.

Many children are a product of divorce, are in touch with both their biological and adopted parents, have two moms or two dads (or both), or are being raised by their grandparents.

It's easy for people to forget that, regardless of what kind of parent we are, whether it's biological, step -, or adoptive, we have been given a gift in being able to be a part of a child's life.

What's awesome about this is that research has learned that it doesn't matter if the father is a biological father, a single father, or a stepfather — it's their involvement in the child's life that is most significant.

Keep in mind, this is not the fault of the child or the parent, it is a biological function that has occurred and there are solutions for bed - wetting.

«Secrecy in adoption probably has its roots in a desire to protect the child from interference from the biological parents and to hide the often illegitimate circumstances of the child's origins.»

Adoption costs for those who can't have biological children have risen, as has the cost of raising children in general.

This has certain merits of its own; the child would not feel any urge to find his / her real parents later in life, and the biological relation would allow the parents to contribute in many medical emergencies, like blood and bone marrow donation.

Dear Abby: I have read in your column so many times about agencies that help adopted children «find «their biological parents, but since I am not adopted, I never gave the subject much thought, until now.

Stepfathers are widespread not only in modern industrial societies but also in subsistence - level societies as well.6, 51,52 Many studies have found that, compared with resident biological fathers, stepfathers invest less in the children who live with them, both in the United States37, 39,53 and other cultures.54 - 56 Stepchildren are more likely to have emotional and behavioural problems than resident genetic offspring, 39,40 although there is evidence that children who have close relationships with their stepfathers have better outcomes.41, 57

As a mother of a child acquired through an open adoption, it has come to my attention how misunderstood and feared open adoptions are in this world from the questions I've gotten about my son's adoption and through encounters that my son's biological mother has shared with me.

I'm now an adopted «child» who has siblings in both biological and adoptive families that are left handed.

We believe all family is important and we want to teach our child that they have enough space in their hearts and lives for both their adoptive family and their biological family.

As we have seen from parenting as well as lesbian parenting studies, that person can be a man, but a female partner to the biological mother seems to work out just as well, as long as the two people in the parenting relationship are together, in love and working together to raise the child.

Programs serving fathers of young children have grown in response to two needs: (1) mothers are more likely to be employed outside of the home, thus placing demands on fathers to become increasingly involved in child care and child rearing, and (2) a growing number of biological fathers do not reside with their children and face significant challenges with being actively involved in their children's lives.

Thus, it is not surprising that breastfeeding has been consistently associated with improved central nervous system development, as indicated by improved visual acuity in relationship to formula - fed infants.4 Second, both biological properties and differences in maternal - infant interactions during the feeding process can lead to improved motor and intellectual development outcomes.5, 6 Third, breastfeeding appears to be protective against the onset of childhood obesity, 7 a condition that has enormous psychosocial consequences for children.

A recent study has reported an association between dietary long chain polyunsaturated fatty acids and mental development in infants.32 It has been suggested that these fatty acids can be an explanation for the beneficial effect of nutrition with human milk on mental development of the child.33 34 This may be a plausible biological explanation of the correlation between breast feeding and mental development.

I'm thinking this sentence should read: «Marriage equality proponents opponents will trumpet this study as proof that children raised by loving, committed, married same - sex couples will have more problems than those who are raised by both biological parents in a heterosexual household.»

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.

In a 2000 survey of postdoctoral fellows in the biological and physical sciences at the University of California (UC), Berkeley, 45 % of married women with children reported that they hadn't presented research at national conferences the previous year, compared to 24 % of all other postdocIn a 2000 survey of postdoctoral fellows in the biological and physical sciences at the University of California (UC), Berkeley, 45 % of married women with children reported that they hadn't presented research at national conferences the previous year, compared to 24 % of all other postdocin the biological and physical sciences at the University of California (UC), Berkeley, 45 % of married women with children reported that they hadn't presented research at national conferences the previous year, compared to 24 % of all other postdocs.

Whether or not a gay gene, a set of gay genes, or some other biological mechanism is ever found, one thing is clear: The environment a child grows up in has nothing to do with what makes most gay men gay.

Bry «has developed a highly innovative and nationally recognized system to use the biological samples obtained routinely in the course of clinical care as the basis of population - based discovery research,» Isaac «Zak» Kohane, director of the Children's Hospital Informatics Program and professor of pediatrics and health sciences and technology at Harvard Medical School, writes in an e-mail.