Sentences with phrase «have a biological child really»

If you were trying to make a strong impression on an expectant mother, is your inability to have a biological child really one of the first things you want her to know about you?

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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.»

Do you really think that, after years of raising and loving a child who you didn't give birth to, they would walk away, just because they met their biological mom?

, although by that time I'd mostly stopped telling people she was still «doing that» — except for my sister, whose two biological children both nursed past their fourth birthdays:D One of the things I'm happiest about is that she nursed long enough to really remember the experience — when she's old enough to nurse her own babies, I hope she'll still remember, and be encouraged to let them wean on their own terms.

Those situations could be limited to couples who both have a serious genetic disease and for whom embryo editing is «really the last reasonable option» if they want to have a healthy biological child, says committee co-chair Alta Charo, a bioethicist at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.

He has everything - a good job, a house, a van for the family -, however there's a small problem: he is not the biological father of his wife's two kids and, though he tries really hard, the children don't really care for him (there's a reason why he appears death or injured in every drawing the daughter makes).

Of course, the father in that situation may wish to confirm that he really is the biological father first because if it turns out that he is not the biological father but has been acting as a parental figure for some time anyway, then he may remain obligated to pay child support for some time even if he chooses to stop acting as a parent to the child.

But I think your point about grieving the loss of a biological connection, pregnancy, breastfeeding, etc is a good one, and here I think it's also done to encourage people to really think about the backgrounds of the children up for adoption and to learn more about attachment issues and child trauma... Fertility treatment and adoption are really not interchangeable and I think it's good to have a break from one before embarking on the other.

I'll be 37 in April, and like you, haven't tried or really wanted to try for biological children, but adoption is something my husband and I are both interested in.