Sentences with phrase «long as foster parents»

As long as foster parents meet the shelter requirements necessary for adoption, foster parents have first choice to adopt their foster animal.

As long as foster parents meet the shelter requirements necessary for adoption, foster parents have first choice to adopt their foster cat.

As long as foster parents meet the shelter requirements necessary for adoption, foster parents have first choice to adopt their foster pet.

Not exact matches

To hold that same - sex marriage is part of the fundamental right to marry, or necessary for giving LGBT people the equal protection of the laws, the Court implicitly made a number of other assumptions: that one - flesh union has no distinct value in itself, only the feelings fostered by any kind of consensual sex; that there is nothing special about knowing the love of the two people whose union gave you life, whose bodies gave you yours, so long as you have two sources of care and support; that what children need is parenting in some disembodied sense, and not mothering and fathering.

Learn more from long time doula and advocate for families and babies, Penny Simkin, who is passionate about singing to babies as a way to foster further attachment between parents and baby.

Films that might have fit this putative strand included the charming but overlong Timeless Stories, co-written and directed by Vasilis Raisis (and winner of the Michael Cacoyannis Award for Best Greek Film), a story that follows a couple (played by different actors at different stages of the characters» lives) across the temporal loop of their will - they, won't - they relationship from childhood to middle age and back again — essentially Julio Medem - lite, or Looper rewritten by Richard Curtis; Michalis Giagkounidis's 4 Days, where the young antiheroine watches reruns of Friends, works in an underpatronized café, freaks out her hairy stalker by coming on to him, takes photographs and molests invalids as a means of staving off millennial ennui, and causes ripples in the temporal fold, but the film is as dead as she is, so you hardly notice; Bob Byington's Infinity Baby, which may be a «science - fiction comedy» about a company providing foster parents with infants who never grow up, but is essentially the same kind of lame, unambitious, conformist indie comedy that has characterized U.S. independent cinema for way too long — static, meticulously framed shots in pretentious black and white, amoral yet supposedly lovable characters played deadpan by the usual suspects (Kieran Culkin, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, Kevin Corrigan), reciting apparently nihilistic but essentially soft - center dialogue, jangly indie music at the end, and a pretty good, if belated, Dick Cheney joke; and Petter Lennstrand's loveably lo - fi Up in the Sky, shown in the Youth Screen section, about a young girl abandoned by overworked parents at a sinister recycling plant, who is reluctantly adopted by a reconstituted family of misfits and marginalized (mostly puppets) who are secretly building a rocket — it's for anyone who has ever loved the Tintin moon adventures, books with resourceful heroines, narratives with oddball gangs, and the legendary episode of Angel where David Boreanaz turned into a Muppet.

He is URGENTLY looking for a forever home as her foster parent can not keep him for long.

As a long - time foster parent with extensive behavior training, Nicky is experienced in teaching skills to children and adults in many situations.

If you want to look into the German shepherd x great Pyrenees puppies they have at Big Fluffy Dog Rescue, you'll have to ask the foster parents if a particular puppy hangs on your every word and cares deeply about what you want like its German shepherd mother, or if, like the dad, it couldn't give a fig what you think, so long as you love on the dog.

If you're looking for a more long - term way to help out your local shelter, consider volunteering as a foster parent.

Animal League America Rescue Team Leader, Karla Agostinello, who has played a vital role in our collaborative rescue efforts with our international rescue partners, said without our loyal supporters and donors, as well as a network of dedicated foster parents, these long - distance rescue efforts would not be possible.

The State of Texas allows a child's parent, step - parent, grandparent, step - grandparent, foster parent, or legal guardian to teach driver education as long as the parent instructor meets the state's requirements.

Within the MAPP practice framework, child welfare staff, foster parents and adoptive parents work as a team to preserve or rebuild the family around the long - term welfare of the child.

These meetings are usually 1 - 2 hours long and will give you a general overview of what to expect as a foster parent.

75 % of foster parents no longer foster after their first placement, and as many as 1 out of 4 adoptions dissolve or disrupt.

These less - than - healthy ways of attaching are often not diagnosed as disorders, but are common in children who have backgrounds of abuse or neglect or who are no longer with their biological parents, who have had the loss of one or more parents, who are in foster care, who have had several medical procedures or who have been adopted.

Biological (or other long - term placement resource) parents are guided in practicing parenting skills outside of the sessions during visits with the child in foster care as well as with other children living in the home.

This followed a review of adoption in 2000 which had recommended that a new legal order was needed to meet the needs of children separated from their birth parents which would offer more security to the children and their carers than provided by long - term fostering — but without severing all legal ties with their birth parents, as is the case with Adoption.