Sentences with phrase «have a biological child with»

I imagine there's something particularly special about having a biological child with one's partner (although you don't see many people not marrying the person they love because of infertility) which we will never be able to have (the one inherent advantage to a straight relationship).

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 parent.

However, she later found out that this wasn't the case: her mother had been unable to care for her at the time of her birth, but later married her biological father and had another child with him.

While Robert Kraft is not the biological father, he is thrilled with Ricki's blessing of having a healthy child.

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.

It's this kind of research that led Princeton sociologist Sara McLanahan and her colleague Gary Sandefur to write that if they we were to design a family, the «two - parent ideal... [would ensure] that children had access to the time and money of two adults... would provide a system of checks and balances that promoted quality parenting... [and the] fact that both parents have a biological connection to the child would increase the likelihood that the parents would identify with the child and be willing to sacrifice for that child, and it would reduce the likelihood that either parent would abuse the 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.

O'Connor, who has one biological child and two stepchildren, connected with the fourth station, Jesus meeting his mother.

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.

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.

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.

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.

-- Children will have the opportunity to know who their biological father is, and the door is left open to have the opportunity to develop a relationship with their father.

Usually, the child's biological family chooses the adoptive family, and decides how much future contact the original family will continue to have with the newly created family.

And that can be tough for kids who are still struggling to deal with the fact that their biological parents are no longer together or that their time of being an only child with heaps of attention has come to an end.

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.

This meant that our post-placement correspondence with our child's biological parent or parents would go through the agency.

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.

For mothers who do not breastfeed their infants the intervals between births is shortened allowing them to have more children during their reproductive years — reducing the reproductive costs associated with being a biological rider.

Nature has provided us with a biological way to space children, allowing the mother to care for her child each infant for a longer period of time.

I have been blessed with 4 speacial needs children 1 biological 3 adopted....

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.

My advice for adoptive parents is to be straightforward and honest about what kind of relationship you are willing to have with the biological parents of your adopted child / children.

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

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 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.

«We've known that children of patients with bipolar disorder have a higher risk of developing the illness but the biological mechanisms are largely unknown,» said Gabriel R. Fries, Ph.D., first author and a post-doctoral research fellow in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at McGovern Medical School at UTHealth.

Outcomes of children and young adults with cancer have improved, primarily due to enhanced understanding of tumor biology and due to the clinical application of biological discoveries through multicenter clinical trials.

Children with tuberculosis meningitis — a brain and spinal cord infection that leads to disability and death — have a biological fingerprint that can be used to assess the severity of the condition, help decide the best course of treatment, and provide clues for novel treatments, scientists at the Francis Crick Institute, Imperial College London and the University of Cape Town reveal.

«With further development this technology has the potential to give investigators glimpses into biological problems that can not be answered with existing tools» says Raphael Kopan, PhD, senior author and director of Developmental Biology at Cincinnati ChildreWith further development this technology has the potential to give investigators glimpses into biological problems that can not be answered with existing tools» says Raphael Kopan, PhD, senior author and director of Developmental Biology at Cincinnati Childrewith existing tools» says Raphael Kopan, PhD, senior author and director of Developmental Biology at Cincinnati Children's.

The point is that no child conceived with the aid of assisted reproductive technologies should be denied the lineage and biological ties to two parents that all children born «naturally» have.

The study enrolls pregnant mothers who already have a child with autism and collects information and biological samples from these mothers, the new baby's father and the babies themselves after birth.

«In our study, transgender youth decided to pursue fertility preservation at much lower rates than we would have expected from research on reproductive desires of transgender adults, which suggests that about half want biological children and over a third would have considered preserving their fertility if techniques had been available and offered to them,» said lead author Diane Chen, PhD, a pediatric psychologist with the Gender & Sex Development Program at Lurie Children's and in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Mchildren and over a third would have considered preserving their fertility if techniques had been available and offered to them,» said lead author Diane Chen, PhD, a pediatric psychologist with the Gender & Sex Development Program at Lurie Children's and in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Northwestern University Feinberg School of MChildren's and in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.

Researchers investigating pediatric low - grade gliomas (PLGG), the most common type of brain tumor in children, have discovered key biological differences in how mutated genes combine with other genes to drive this childhood cancer.

The idea that young children, who haven't gone through puberty, can truly be transgender has met with public skepticism and some experts believe the best approach is to encourage «gender - variant» children to be comfortable with their biological gender.

Contrary to the studies that Harris cites, Flinn has found that children who live with both biological parents clearly do best.

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.

Children raised by their biological parents may have an easier time dealing with stress than former orphans.

Researchers have identified two new biological markers of cystic fibrosis (CF), a genetic disease which affects children and young adults, leaving them with lifelong health complications including digestive problems and persistent lung infections.

Most patients need to gradually, and with great difficulty, make the transition from wanting biological children to accepting that they will have to pursue adoption or come to terms with being childless.

Each child the product of artificial insemination with one of their mothers, they have survived as a content family unit until 15 year - old Laser's curiosity about his biological father throws a spanner in the works.

Conrad — our adoptee — has felt angry since the arrival of his baby brother caused his new parents to neglect him; Nick — the biological child — doesn't get this, and can only react with disgust to his older sibling's obsession with Manson, the ultimate outcast.

Children who thrive despite hardship usually have both a biological resistance to adversity and strong relationships with at least one adult in their family or community.

While most American children still live with both of their biological or adoptive parents, family structures have become more diverse in recent years, and living arrangements have grown increasingly complex.