Sentences with phrase «maternal grandparents»

In Caribbean cultures, they may be expected to live with maternal grandparents.

The applicant maternal grandparents applied for an access order to their two - year - old granddaughter, M.

One British study of maternal grandparents showed that children prefer grandmothers over grandfathers until they near the teen years, at which time the preference begins to even out.

Since women still receive custody more frequently than men, most of the time maternal grandparents have an enhanced relationship with their grandchildren after divorce, while paternal grandparents have a reduced role.

In this particular case, the father sued the mother and maternal grandparents because they had alleged that the father sexually abused the children.

There is a rift with her beloved maternal grandparents, and with the whole scandalized, God - fearing community.

The preference for maternal grandparents starts early, with maternal grandmothers being more likely to be invited into the delivery room.

It may not be fair, but maternal grandparents usually have an advantage over the paternal side.

Gareth's maternal grandparents settled in Ulster County in the 1960s, his paternal grandparents were farmers in the Midwest, and his grandfather fought in the Battle of Tinian in the Pacific during WWII.

Author Stephanie Bishop's maternal grandparents left England for Australia in 1965.

Will time with the paternal / maternal grandparents impact the father's / mother's vacation time with the children?

Since women still receive custody more frequently than men, most of the time maternal grandparents have an enhanced relationship with their grandchildren after divorce, while paternal grandparents have a reduced role.

(They also spent a lot of time with their maternal grandparents, according to Vanity Fair.)

Foxx, born Eric Morlon Bishop, was adopted by his maternal grandparents when he was less than a year old, after his parents» marriage fell apart.

The surname is Swiss — his father, a dairy entrepreneur, was born in Switzerland, as were his maternal grandparents.

My maternal grandparents» sky - blue clapboard farmhouse never had air - conditioning, and yet it was my favorite place to spend part of every summer as a child.

As I wrote in an article about Christmas cookies for Edible Seattle magazine last year, once my maternal grandparents had frozen an adequate amount of lefse for the holidays and cleaned away any molecules of errant flour that had crept beyond the plastic sheets, they could relax (a bit at least) and begin baking cookies.

As a child, I spent every summer in France with my maternal grandparents.

Her maternal grandparents ran an Italian restaurant in Manhattan, and she regularly cooked with her dad.

Melig left his job at an engineering testing company to become the business wingman for Ramos, and together they came up with the 2M name to honor their families, the Meligs and Ramos» maternal grandparents, the Marquezes.

Martinez was born in New York City but was taken to Dorado to be raised by his maternal grandparents when his parents divorced shortly after his birth.

Our maternal grandparents bought a little cottage on Hull Bay when my mom was five years old.

The most common scenario is that maternal grandparents have more access than paternal grandparents, but it can be just the opposite.

That is, daughters generally have closer ties to their own parents than to their in - laws, which leads to warmer relationships between their children and the maternal grandparents.»

The pipitan, offered by the maternal grandparents is an everyday carrier — the maternal grandparents are part of the community and are an everyday feature of the infant's life.

We came back «home» around the time I turned three, my family briefly living with my maternal grandparents in Coleman before establishing its own, permanent home there.

(This study focused on maternal grandparents because many studies show that grandchildren tend to be closer to their maternal grandparents than their paternal ones, but that's another story.)

And Darwin himself, who suffered unremitting ill health following his epic trip on The Beagle, was the product of an «inter-Wedgwood» union, his maternal grandparents being third cousins to each another.

My parents (Larry D. Petway and Mamie L. Hinton) and maternal grandparents (the late Jesse Hinton Sr. and the late Mamie R. Hinton).

My maternal grandparents had been early followers for Rudolf Steiner's teaching, and worked for Waldorf schools when Hitler assumed power and banned the anthrophosophical movement.

DNA was also obtained from the parents of the bull and from the parents of the cows (paternal and maternal grandparents, respectively).

And funny enough, the scents that a certain mouthwash and a particular soap have remind me of my paternal and maternal grandparents» homes.

#GiveABox #CollectiveBias I've always had a really great and close relationship with my maternal grandparents.

Now that I think about it, I don't think I've ever seen my maternal grandparents spill anything... ever.

His parents are actors Robert Pine and Gwynne Gilford, and his maternal grandparents were

Crawford was born into a performing family — both of his maternal grandparents, William Broderick and Emma Kraus, were opera singers, and his mother, Helen Broderick, was a Broadway and screen actress, while his father, Lester Crawford, was a vaudeville performer.

Halloween horror season starts early with M. Night Shyamalan's strangely creepy, suspenseful tale of a brother and sister who spend a week on their maternal grandparents» remote Pennsylvania farm.

Two kids spend a week with their maternal grandparents for the first time in The Visit starring Olivia DeJonge, Ed Oxenbould, Deanna Dunagan, Peter McRobbie, and Kathryn Hahn.

Each summer from the time I was 3 until I was 12 I spent two weeks alone with my maternal grandparents at their home in Carle Place, Long Island.

Told through Will and Katherine's alternating viewpoints - and inspired by the lives of the author's maternal grandparents - City of Tranquil Light is a tender and elegiac portrait of a young marriage set against the backdrop of the shifting face of a beautiful but torn nation.

My two brothers and my younger sister, who was a baby were sent to my maternal grandparents for about 6 months.

Although there's nothing autobiographical about the book (except my maternal grandparents have a brief cameo role), I learned a lot about the disease, both by researching it as much as I could when my mother was first diagnosed, and then by observation.

Not only did I feel like I had a better and closer understanding of my maternal grandparents, who ran a bread bakery in Brooklyn long before I was ever even a thought, I also learned so much about the chemistry behind baking, which helped me to overcome my fear of yeast.

Inspired by the lives of the author's maternal grandparents - City of Tranquil Light is a tender and elegiac portrait of a young marriage set against the backdrop of the shifting face of a beautiful but torn nation.

My maternal grandparents never wandered too far from home or for too long.

DeFeo spent a year in institutional care when she was four and was periodically sent to live with her maternal grandparents in rural Colorado.