Sentences with phrase «more about their biological families»

Our goal is to help genealogists advance their research, and to help adoptees find more about their biological families.

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That share was more than twice the rate in 1980 (18 percent) and an eightfold increase from the rate in 1960 (5 percent).2 Half of the children born to unwed mothers live, at least initially, with a single mother who is not residing with the child's biological father (although about 60 percent of this group say they are romantically involved with the father), while half live with an unwed mother who is cohabiting with the child's father.3 These estimates imply that today one - fifth of all children are born into single - mother families, while another fifth are born into cohabiting - couple families.

However, many therapists work with biological families who have been impacted by early childhood trauma, neglect, and abuse, and more information and instruction about working with biological families where abuse or neglect occurred would likely be helpful to the practitioners who work with this population.