Sentences with phrase «on having a biological child»

Not exact matches

NEW YORK (Reuters)- In a landmark ruling for non-traditional families in New York, the state's highest court on Tuesday held a person need not have a biological or adoptive relationship with a child to be considered a parent.

Secondly, the Bill proposes to remove the need for IVF providers to take into account the child's need for a father when considering an IVF application, and to confer legal parenthood on people who have no biological relationship to a child born as a result of IVF.

And during that time, we became involved with a support group to help us through the process and getting advice on what to do in terms of experiencing the grief and a loss of not having a biological child.

Have the Biological parent tell the child about the new baby on the way and assure them of their special place in the family.

Research has shown that the children of same - sex couples, whether adopted or biological, fare no worse than the kids of straight couples on mental health, social functioning, school performance and several other life - success measures.

She's interested in an «ethic of responsible parenthood,» which sounds good on surface but borders on elitism once you start exploring what that may mean: George Lucas adopted two children as a single man and I will bet that Sawhill would not insist that he have a partner first and wait until they are «ready to be parents» — he was wealthy enough to hire surrogate moms until he married again and, last year, became a biological dad at age 69.

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.

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

, although by that time I'd mostly stopped telling people she was still «doing that» — except for my sister, whose two biological children both nursed past their fourth birthdays:D One of the things I'm happiest about is that she nursed long enough to really remember the experience — when she's old enough to nurse her own babies, I hope she'll still remember, and be encouraged to let them wean on their own terms.

Postpartum depression is known to have negative effects on the quality of mother - child interactions and on the child's biological and behavioral development.»

If you were trying to make a strong impression on an expectant mother, is your inability to have a biological child really one of the first things you want her to know about you?

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 each woman is entitled to her opinion on the topic, such public figures speaking out against breastfeeding photos only serves to remind us that we've been conditioned to believe that breasts are only to be viewed publicly as sexual objects, not as biological vessels for feeding our children.

A recent study has reported an association between dietary long chain polyunsaturated fatty acids and mental development in infants.32 It has been suggested that these fatty acids can be an explanation for the beneficial effect of nutrition with human milk on mental development of the child.33 34 This may be a plausible biological explanation of the correlation between breast feeding and mental development.

The effects of breastfeeding on children's development have important implications for both public - health policies and for the design of targeted early intervention strategies to improve the developmental outcomes of children at risk as a result of biological (e.g., prematurity) or social adversity (e.g., poverty).

A recent report on genome editing from the National Academies did not call for a moratorium on research into germline editing, arguing that it might one day be a way for some parents to have healthy, biological children, such as when both mother and father carry genetic mutations that cause severe diseases.

«In our study, transgender youth decided to pursue fertility preservation at much lower rates than we would have expected from research on reproductive desires of transgender adults, which suggests that about half want biological children and over a third would have considered preserving their fertility if techniques had been available and offered to them,» said lead author Diane Chen, PhD, a pediatric psychologist with the Gender & Sex Development Program at Lurie Children's and in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Mchildren and over a third would have considered preserving their fertility if techniques had been available and offered to them,» said lead author Diane Chen, PhD, a pediatric psychologist with the Gender & Sex Development Program at Lurie Children's and in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Northwestern University Feinberg School of MChildren's and in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.

Lead researcher and author of the paper Dr Rebecca Bromley, of The University of Manchester's School of Biological Sciences, said expectant mothers had to know the possible impacts their drug regimes may have on unborn children.

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.

Prof Barry Bogin, Professor of Biological Anthropology at Loughborough University, has written this blog about the impact of the flooding on children, which you can quote from if you want:

Children of all ages and their families will have an opportunity to experience science in a way that stimulates children's interest and encourages parental involvement in science education at the MDI Biological Laboratory's annual Family Science Night on Thursday, July 13, from 5 tChildren of all ages and their families will have an opportunity to experience science in a way that stimulates children's interest and encourages parental involvement in science education at the MDI Biological Laboratory's annual Family Science Night on Thursday, July 13, from 5 tchildren's interest and encourages parental involvement in science education at the MDI Biological Laboratory's annual Family Science Night on Thursday, July 13, from 5 to 7 p.m.

In a new study, scientists led by Selvi C. Jeyaraj of the Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital have identified a biological mechanism that may be responsible for icy extremities: an interaction between a series of molecules and receptors on smooth muscle cells that line the skin's tiny blood vessels.

Yes if he is on the birth certificate or has otherwise been named by the state as the biological or adoptive father of the child.

36 The referring court asks whether the fact that the applicant for a residence permit lives together with his spouse, is not the biological father of the child who is a Union citizen, and does not have custody of the child may affect the interpretation to be given to the provisions on citizenship of the Union.

Observing that the concept of «family» under Art 8 was not confined to marriage - based relationships, the ECtHR noted that while the 1967 European Convention on the Adoption of Children provided that the obligations of biological parents ceased on adoption, only 18 member states had ratified this Convention.

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.

Chronic stress was having biological effects on young children that interfered with optimal brain development and affected their systems, making their more vulnerable to problems throughout life.

First, interventions that increase the share of children growing up with two continuously married biological parents will have modest effects on the percentage of U.S. children experiencing various problems, but could have substantial effects on the number of children experiencing them.

For example, some have found significant differences between children with divorced and continuously married parents even after controlling for personality traits such as depression and antisocial behavior in parents.59 Others have found higher rates of problems among children with single parents, using statistical methods that adjust for unmeasured variables that, in principle, should include parents» personality traits as well as many genetic influences.60 And a few studies have found that the link between parental divorce and children's problems is similar for adopted and biological children — a finding that can not be explained by genetic transmission.61 Another study, based on a large sample of twins, found that growing up in a single - parent family predicted depression in adulthood even with genetic resemblance controlled statistically.62 Although some degree of selection still may be operating, the weight of the evidence strongly suggests that growing up without two biological parents in the home increases children's risk of a variety of cognitive, emotional, and social problems.

While early parenthood can pose many challenges for anyone, it is particularly problematic for early and chronic female offenders, who face increased risks of pregnancy complications, socioeconomic disadvantage, relationship violence, and compromised parenting skills.41 Several studies have linked a history of maternal conduct disorder with unresponsive parenting.42 Particularly troubling are data suggesting that mothers with a history of aggression or conduct disorder, or both, pass on at least three risk factors to their offspring: antisocial biological fathers (because of assortative mating), prenatal exposure to nicotine, and coercive (hostile) parenting style.43 The most common trajectories followed by female offenders tend to increase the odds that their children will follow in their footsteps.

They knew early on that they would not be bale to have biological children, and had been working with LSS Adoption Services for six years before Jackson came into their lives.

«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.»]

[T] he various patterns of coresidence did not differ from the children in intact families on the outcome measures, suggesting that during the initial adjustment period after marital dissolution, the absence of a father - figure or the presence of biological - father - substitutes appear to have no influence on most children's intellectual or psychosocial functioning.»

As I have mentioned on Science of Relationships before, the idea that absentee fathers or dominant mothers are responsible for turning their children gay is simply not true and there is growing evidence in favor of a biological basis for homosexuality (see here).

As a rule, courts impose biological paternity on a man who has no biological ties to the child when he presents himself to the world as the father of a child.

Five programs showed favorable effects in some aspect of child maltreatment reduction: (1) Child FIRST showed a favorable effect on family involvement with child protective services53; (2) Early Start on 2 measures, including the percentage who went to the hospital for accident, injury, or accidental poisoning, and parents» report of severe or very severe physical assault25, 26; (3) EHS had a favorable effect on physical punishment at 36 months66; (4) HFA showed 14 favorable impacts on measures of parenting behaviors, such as corporal punishment, self - reported serious physical abuse, and aggression, 30,50,67 — 69 and 1 measure of the biological mother as a confirmed subject of sexual abuse report by the child's seventh birthday50; and (5) NFP had favorable effects on 7 measures, including health care encounters for injuries or ingestions and substantiated abuse or neglect 15 years after program enrollment.34, 35,42,70,71 One program, Healthy Steps, showed no effect on 1 measure in this domachild maltreatment reduction: (1) Child FIRST showed a favorable effect on family involvement with child protective services53; (2) Early Start on 2 measures, including the percentage who went to the hospital for accident, injury, or accidental poisoning, and parents» report of severe or very severe physical assault25, 26; (3) EHS had a favorable effect on physical punishment at 36 months66; (4) HFA showed 14 favorable impacts on measures of parenting behaviors, such as corporal punishment, self - reported serious physical abuse, and aggression, 30,50,67 — 69 and 1 measure of the biological mother as a confirmed subject of sexual abuse report by the child's seventh birthday50; and (5) NFP had favorable effects on 7 measures, including health care encounters for injuries or ingestions and substantiated abuse or neglect 15 years after program enrollment.34, 35,42,70,71 One program, Healthy Steps, showed no effect on 1 measure in this domaChild FIRST showed a favorable effect on family involvement with child protective services53; (2) Early Start on 2 measures, including the percentage who went to the hospital for accident, injury, or accidental poisoning, and parents» report of severe or very severe physical assault25, 26; (3) EHS had a favorable effect on physical punishment at 36 months66; (4) HFA showed 14 favorable impacts on measures of parenting behaviors, such as corporal punishment, self - reported serious physical abuse, and aggression, 30,50,67 — 69 and 1 measure of the biological mother as a confirmed subject of sexual abuse report by the child's seventh birthday50; and (5) NFP had favorable effects on 7 measures, including health care encounters for injuries or ingestions and substantiated abuse or neglect 15 years after program enrollment.34, 35,42,70,71 One program, Healthy Steps, showed no effect on 1 measure in this domachild protective services53; (2) Early Start on 2 measures, including the percentage who went to the hospital for accident, injury, or accidental poisoning, and parents» report of severe or very severe physical assault25, 26; (3) EHS had a favorable effect on physical punishment at 36 months66; (4) HFA showed 14 favorable impacts on measures of parenting behaviors, such as corporal punishment, self - reported serious physical abuse, and aggression, 30,50,67 — 69 and 1 measure of the biological mother as a confirmed subject of sexual abuse report by the child's seventh birthday50; and (5) NFP had favorable effects on 7 measures, including health care encounters for injuries or ingestions and substantiated abuse or neglect 15 years after program enrollment.34, 35,42,70,71 One program, Healthy Steps, showed no effect on 1 measure in this domachild's seventh birthday50; and (5) NFP had favorable effects on 7 measures, including health care encounters for injuries or ingestions and substantiated abuse or neglect 15 years after program enrollment.34, 35,42,70,71 One program, Healthy Steps, showed no effect on 1 measure in this domain.65

The forcible removal of Aboriginal children from their families was predicated on notions of biological racial purity to «absorb the half - castes into the white population» — a devastating intergenerational policy based on what today would be dismissed as junk science.

Research on adults with depression generally points to both biological and psychosocial factors, but there has been considerably less research on children and adolescents (Kendler, 1995).

On the other, a child is losing or has lost his or her biological family and the birth parents have made an incredibly tough decision.

Adults who had been categorized as behaviorally inhibited at the age of 2 years exhibited a higher amygdala activation in response to unknown vs familiar faces16 compared with adults who were uninhibited as children, consistent with the notion that novel or ambiguous environmental stimuli of potential biological relevance activate the amygdala.17 Turning to genes that can influence the neurobiological bases of the processing of emotions, 2 common alleles, the short (S) and the long (L), in a variable repeat sequence of the serotonin transporter (5 - HTT) promoter polymorphism (5 - HTTLPR) on human chromosome 17q11 have been differently associated with greater amygdala activity in response to angry or fearful faces18 in healthy adults.

Generally defined, temperament is the biological basis of personality.4 Research on the topic of temperamentally - based socially wary, reticent and inhibited behavior has reported differences in prevalence of this construct between East Asian (e.g., China, South Korea) and Western children and youth (e.g., Western Europe, Canada and the United States); the former group has demonstrated a higher prevalence of wary, inhibited behavior than the latter.5, 6,7,8,9 In Western cultures, which value independence and assertiveness, socially - inhibited and reticent behavior is viewed as reflecting shyness, fearfulness and social incompetence; in East Asian cultures, which are dominated historically by Confucian and Taoist philosophies, socially wary and inhibited behavior is viewed as reflecting compliance, obedience, being well - mannered, and thus, social maturity and accomplishment.10

Fact: «While public sentiment has been in favor of nonresident father's involvement in family life, there is limited research evidence of whether their involvement yields positive benefits for children (King, 1994) and for the functioning of the biological family unit... most studies, particularly those based on large national databases, have not been able to detect a significant connection between the nonresident father's contact with his child and the child's well - being (Furstenberg et al., 1987; King, 1994).

We have also found a secure attachment to be a major protective factor for children who function in a competent fashion even in the face of adversity.13 In addition, attachment relationships may have long - term effects on functioning by influencing the course of biological development, including brain development.

It's difficult for us as adoptive parents to «claim» a child as our own when you know that their biological parents also have a deep claim on the 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.

If you understand the differences between biological and adoptive families, if you understand the loss your child has experienced, you can have a wonderfully positive impact on his or her life.

Child (ren) from prior relationship (s) was based on the difference in the write - in items, «How many biological children do you have?»

(Note that where there is a father figure, we do not have information on how the same child related to the non-resident biological father.)

Research has shown that the children of same - sex couples, whether adopted or biological, fare no worse than the kids of straight couples on mental health, social functioning, school performance and several other life - success measures.