Sentences with phrase «more biological children»

If you plan on having more than one child you could each have one or more biological children.

We started the process to adopt 2 children, 2 years later and one more biological child later, we brought home a 2 year old and a 4 1/2 year old.

Not exact matches

His biological mother had two more children, who were eventually also adopted by his grandparents due to his biological mother's substance abuse problems.

At 29, I've been hearing a lot about how it's time for me to have children — a prospect that both terrifies and thrills me, especially as the ticking of my biological clocks begins to sound more and more like a gong.

This is important because it helps create a situation where dads (by which we mean the full diversity of men with a significant caring role in children's lives, including biological and other fathers and father - figures), as well as mums (in a similarly diverse sense), feel comfortable and valued — in the context of a culture which still privileges women as more naturally suited to caring, and more important as parents (and by extension, less important in other contexts, eg the workplace).

Newborns and younger babies who don't have a well established biological clock probably won't be affected by the time change, but older babies, toddler and children are more likely to be thrown off by the drastic switch.Here are 4 ways you can help your child (or children) adjust to the time change: Read more

• The stepfather - child relationship is substantially more challenging than the biological - father - child relationship: the relationship is not as close; stepfathers are less affectionate and more coercive with stepchildren; and stepchildren tend to be less warm and affectionate with stepfathers — even in long - term fairly successful stepfamilies (for review see Radhakrishna et al, 2001).

• Fathers» new partners (more than mothers» new partners) tend to be less supportive of their mate's relationship with his biological children, being more often ambivalent or hostile (for review, see Hetherington & Henderson, 1997).

Only with a larger pool of foster and adoptive families to choose from, can the New Jersey State of Division of Youth and Family Services make better initial placement decisions and keep more siblings together, when circumstances require the removal of children from their biological homes.

Children living with both biological parents are 20 to 35 percent more physically healthy than children from homes without both biological parents Children living with both biological parents are 20 to 35 percent more physically healthy than children from homes without both biological parents children from homes without both biological parents present.

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.

I hope that as your biological child grows the other parents can become more open to allowing access to his / her genetic family, too.

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.

Whether this means they won't have more children, or won't be having any biological children at all, it's a personal decision moms get to make on their own.

What is so radical about this recent transformation is that it is the age at which women give birth to their first child which is becoming comparatively high, leaving an ever more constricted window of biological opportunity for second and subsequent children, should they be desired.

Raising children (be it biological, step - kids, foster, adopted, or whatever) is... [Read more...]

Children who go to bed at the time that their bodies» biological clock tells them to go to sleep will sleep longer and more solidly.

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

After all it is a fact that some adopted children are more attached to their foster parents than biological children are to their parents.

For example, a fairly recent U.S. longitudinal study tracking over 6,400 boys for over 20 years found that children who grew up without their biological father in the home were roughly three times more likely to commit a crime that led to incarceration than were children from intact families.

Biological nurturing allows breastfeeding to happen more naturally and easily for both the mom and her child.

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.

While it might ensure parents get more sleep, I believe this cultural expectation to be potentially disruptive to the biological function and physiological sleep patterns of infants and young children.

I'm thinking this sentence should read: «Marriage equality proponents opponents will trumpet this study as proof that children raised by loving, committed, married same - sex couples will have more problems than those who are raised by both biological parents in a heterosexual household.»

In a manner of speaking, globular clusters appear capable of «adopting» baby stars — or at least the material with which to form new stars — rather than creating more «biological» children as parents in a human family might choose to do.

That in itself raises fundamental biological questions: If asexual females grow faster and bear children much more quickly than sexual females, what's the purpose of sex, and why is it the dominant method of reproduction in the animal world?

A MAJOR flaw may have wrecked years of experiments designed to find a biological mechanism to explain the claim that children living near power lines are more likely to develop leukaemia.

Although not their only barrier to career progression, it is clear that women's biological role as child bearer and, more often than not, primary care giver, is not going to change in a hurry.

Even more striking is the discovery that there is no correlation in intelligence between an adopted child and a biological child raised together, while there is a correlation between biological siblings who are adopted and brought up apart.

Several studies have shown that in households where the biological father is missing, children reach sexual maturity, have their first sexual experience, and are more likely to become teenage parents at a younger age.

As well, the study finds that a child's nurturing environment is more strongly correlated than biological factors to brain development and general intellectual ability, declarative memory, procedural memory, executive function, academic achievement, fine motor dexterity, and socio - emotional health.

«Biological parents in open adoption relationships often feel more secure knowing more about the parents who adopted their children.

«This is another great example of how using a synthetic «bottom - up» engineering approach and leveraging the power of biological design — this time at the scale of individual molecules interacting on cell membranes — can lead to breakthrough technologies for medicine that overcome limitations that hold back more conventional approaches,» said Wyss Institute Founding Director Donald Ingber, M.D., Ph.D., who is also the Judah Folkman Professor of Vascular Biology at Harvard Medical School and the Vascular Biology Program at Boston Children's Hospital and Professor of Bioengineering at Harvard's John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.

As evidence of peer influence, she also notes that siblings grow up to be very different adults; that adopted children are more like their biological parents than their adopted parents in terms of such traits as criminality; and that adolescents from poor neighborhoods are more likely to be delinquents than adolescents from middle - class neighborhoods, whereas being from a broken home has no effect on delinquency.

1 Certain children, due to their biological / genetic makeup, are much more sensitive to environmental stressors.

A new brain - imaging study, published in the May 1 issue of Biological Psychiatry, shows that once children are taught to overcome their reading disabilities, their brains begin to function more like those of skilled readers.

Our approach to achieving this goal focuses on three objectives: (1) to develop a reliable, predictive panel of biomarkers (including both biological and bio-behavioral measures) that can identify children, youth, and parents showing evidence of toxic stress, and that can be collected in pediatric primary care settings; (2) to conduct basic, animal and human research on critical periods in development and individual differences in stress susceptibility, thereby informing the timing and design of a suite of new interventions that address the roots of stress - related diseases early in the life cycle; and (3) to build a strong, community - based infrastructure through which scientists, practitioners, parents, and community leaders can apply new scientific insights and innovative measures to the development of more effective interventions in the first three postnatal years.

This compelling knowledge base underscores three significant, unmet needs: (1) valid and reliable biological and bio-behavioral measures (or «biomarkers») of «toxic stress» to identify children who are at higher risk of chronic disease in adulthood; (2) more effective intervention strategies to prevent, reduce, or mitigate the long - term health consequences of significant adversity in early childhood; and (3) biomarkers that are sensitive to change and can thus be used to assess the short - term and medium - term effects of intervention strategies whose ultimate impacts on physical and mental health may not be apparent until decades later.

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.

As her biological clock began to tick louder, perhaps she just wanted a biological father for her child and nothing more.

Ruby's horrid adoptive parents were no more ready for her than her biological parents, who had lost a child too soon before they brought her into their lives.

If they are still a unified family, he will be around the child at bare minimum half the time (if the biological father was ridiculously given 1/2 custody) and more likely closer to 100 % of the time regardless...

Then it must be established that the petitioner has more than just a biological relationship with the child.

If they are still a unified family, he will be around the child at bare minimum half the time (if the biological father was ridiculously given 1/2 custody) and more likely closer to 100 % of the time regardless of parentage.

The study is especially significant because it examined more than one - quarter of all the 3 - to 5 - year - old children in Denmark who lived with their biological fathers (600 out of 2040).

Taken together, these findings suggest that concurrent planning may more naturally occur when children are in the potentially permanent homes of relatives who support their reunification with their biological parents.

Additionally, children in kinship care are more likely to have sustained relationships with their biological parents (Chipungu et al., 1998; Benedict et al., 1996).

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.

Generally speaking, the less contact a child has with the other birth parent (s), the more sense it makes to do a stepparent or relative adoption, unless there is abuse or neglect on the part of the biological parent.

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.