Sentences with phrase «more than the biological parents»

It is important to understand that visitation rights can extend to more than the biological parents.

Not exact matches

With more than 56,000 members in 105 countries, the DSR has helped to connect more than 15,000 donor conceived people with their half - siblings and / or their biological parents.

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

In what is perhaps the most comprehensive investigation of the implications of different kinds of family structures for the well - being of teenagers, Thomas Deleire and Ariel Kalil studied more than 11,000 adolescents raised in ten different kinds of households, including, for example, households with married parents, biological cohabiting parents, single mothers (divorced, always - single, and cohabiting considered separately), divorced single mothers in multi-generational households, and always - single mothers in multigenerational households.

Those who had lost a parent through death felt no more marital anxiety than those from intact families, while those who'd never lived with a biological father had the same feelings of anxiety as the offspring of divorce.

Pamela Webster, Ph.D., and colleagues surveyed more than 13,000 adults whose parents had divorced, who had experienced the death of a parent, or who had never lived with their biological father.

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

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.

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.

But a new study in Psychological Science suggests this may have more to do with nature than nurture: The researchers examined data from nearly 20,000 adults who had been adopted as kids, and found that the patterns of marriage and divorce were more similar to those of their biological parents, not their adoptive ones.

Mr. Russell's wonderfully mad odyssey of a movie, in which a man sets out to find his biological parents and winds up meeting more weirdos than Alice found down the rabbit hole.

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.

They have less education, earn less income, report poorer relationship quality, and experience more mental health problems.12 These considerations suggest that children living with cohabiting biological parents may be worse off, in some respects, than children living with two married biological parents.

Studies consistently indicate, however, that children in stepfamilies exhibit more problems than do children with continuously married parents and about the same number of problems as do children with single parents.26 In other words, the marriage of a single parent (to someone other than the child's biological parent) does not appear to improve the functioning of most children.

«A longitudinal study on over 1,000 children who lived with both biological parents found that children whose fathers wore seat belts, had car insurance, and had precautionary savings were more successful as adults than their peers whose fathers did not engage in these activities.»]

One study5 found that children in both single - parent families and stepfamilies were more likely to experience hospitalization or an injury attributable to accident than were children living with both biological parents.

There can be no more than eight children, including the foster parents biological children, living in the home.

Your children did not ask for this situation, so do not hurt them any more than they already are by not allowing them to see their biological parent.

In many households, the stepparent is more involved with a child's life than the biological parent.

Adopted - away children resemble their biological parents more than their adoptive parents, but the adoptive family environment influences the risk of developing a personality disorder and related psychopathology.

Child Abuse: While children living with their unmarried biological mother and her live - in boyfriend face a higher risk of suffering child abuse than kids in any other type of family, children who live with their own cohabiting parents are more likely to be abused than children of married parents.

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.

Children raised by never - married mothers are seven times more likely to live in poverty than children raised by their biological parents in intact marriages.

«Children who live with their biological fathers are, on average, at least two to three times more likely not to be poor, less likely to use drugs, less likely to experience educational, health, emotional and behavioral problems, less likely to be victims of child abuse, and less likely to engage in criminal behavior than their peers who live without their married, biological (or adoptive) parents.»

The baby's right to continue in these close relationships would take precedence over the biological parent's rights to form a relationship with the child, because the child is more vulnerable and because an existing relationship is more important than a potential one.

Other results show that children who live absent their biological fathers are more likely to be poor, to use drugs, to experience educational, health, emotional and behavioral problems, to be victims of child abuse, and to engage in criminal behavior than their peers who live with their married, biological (or adoptive) parents.

Among young children, for example, those living with no biological parents, or in single - parent households, are less likely than children with two biological parents to exhibit behavioral self - control, and more likely to be exposed to high levels of aggravated parenting, than are children living with two biological parents.

They did not differ in consistent ways from other families, and children in single - mother households did not report any differences in well - being or relationships compared with children in other types of families... Mothers in two - parent biological families reported that their children had fewer behavior problems (but did not differ from stepmothers» reports) and spent more time with their children (but did not differ from adoptive mothers» reports) than did mothers in other types of families.

Comment: Female older siblings are far more likely than male older siblings to be given child care responsibilities while young; teenage girls are far more likely than teenage boys to hold childcare and babysitting jobs; new mothers are far more likely to have prepared for parenthood by reading pregnancy - to - parenting articles and books as well as talking with (and spending social time with) primary caregiving women friends and relatives and their children; the ever - present months - long pregnancy itself initiates mothers into a mindset of habitual constant awareness of child - whereabouts; and various biological and hormonal factors make mothers more responsive to routine infant cues (other than severe distress cries.)

«The stronger association between adolescent outcomes and ties to nonresident mothers compared with ties to stepmothers stands in contrast to the results reported in prior research on resident mother families where close ties to resident stepfathers are more strongly associated with positive adolescent outcomes than ties to nonresident biological fathers (King, 2006; White & Gilbreth, 2001), suggesting important differences in the role of nonresident parents and stepparents by gender....

Fact:» [D] espite their greater dating experiences, [adolescents] from single - mother families were lesslikely to choose their romantic partners over mothers as primary confidants than those from two - biological - parent families... [and] unlike the popular notion that it is normative for adolescents to turn away from their parents, the adolescents who nominated peers — romantic partners or friends — were more likely than those who nominated mothers to have increased involvement in delinquency or substance use.»

Fact: «Although early research suggests that youth living in two - parent biological families fare better on a range of developmental outcomes than those in single - parent or alternative structures (Amato and Keith, 1991), this research typically finds that effects of family structure on developmental outcomes such as delinquency are not strong (Hetherington and Kelly, 2002)... More tangible differences in family dynamics or circumstances — such as supervision practices — are largely responsible when study groups have different outcomes... The highest rates of delinquency were for youth in father - only households, followed by father - stepmother...»

Child gender and birthweight (in grams) were also included, as were whether the child resided in a family with more than three biological children or not (large family size), and whether or not parents of the study child had experienced depression in the first 2 years of the child's life based on a score of 13 or more on the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale.

However, we noted that, after infancy, father engagement in some of the individual recorded activities was slightly greater for boys than girls, perhaps reflecting shared interests and / or greater confidence with boys; both parents tended to be more involved in physically active play with boys, and musical activities with girls, perhaps in response to underlying biological or psychosocial differences in the children [48].

Statistically, blended families are more likely to fail than traditional biological parent families.