Sentences with phrase «only biological child»

She initially breast - fed her eldest child — also her only biological child — but medication that she required for an unrelated health condition forced her to stop after a month.

However, families with only biological children also participate in the IOP.

Not exact matches

For the only way to make option three work is to ignore biological nature, which tells us that from conception onward the child is as human as you or me (does anyone imagine that a dog is growing in there?)

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.

And that can be tough for kids who are still struggling to deal with the fact that their biological parents are no longer together or that their time of being an only child with heaps of attention has come to an end.

A child might be a super taster, might have sensory issues but if you have only fed them good food then even their biological limits will be healthy ones.

If one partner is the biological parent and the other is not, the nonbiological parent only has an automatic right to be guardian if he or she has legally adopted the child.

In the latest US census bureau, an estimated 24 Million children (33 %), live absent from their biological father, and in the UK, The Centre for Social Justice reported 1m children growing up without meaningful contact with their father, and 3m predominantly with their mothers only.

A lot of children cat nap because they aren't sleeping at times of day that align with their biological rhythms — when it is easiest for a child to not only fall asleep and stay asleep, but also get the best, most restorative rest.

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

It is true that some children seem to be natural early birds, but only about 10 % to 15 % actually have a biological tendency to be a complete lark.

To gain parental rights, including the right to object to adoption, biological fathers unmarried to the mother must not only establish paternity, but also demonstrate a commitment to parenting the child.

You will hear this often from people who can only view breasts as sexual organs and not in their biological purpose as a source of nutrition for your child.

I hope you are not suggesting that productive bonding can only occur between biological mother and child.

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.

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.

The NAS report notes that many inherited diseases can be prevented by selecting healthy embryos for in vitro fertilization, and that embryo editing might only be justified if it presents the only option for a couple to have a healthy biological child.

Conrad — our adoptee — has felt angry since the arrival of his baby brother caused his new parents to neglect him; Nick — the biological child — doesn't get this, and can only react with disgust to his older sibling's obsession with Manson, the ultimate outcast.

Of all the stepfamilies identified, 271,930 were considered simple stepfamilies, in which all children are the biological or adopted children of only one married spouse or common - law partner in the couple and whose birth or adoption preceded the current relationship.

When today's children are grown, will they only be able to regard today's biological marvels in museums, as my younger son Jack did last March at the National Museum of Natural History in Washington?

Firstly, this ruling is not only relevant for TCNs who are the biological mothers of Union citizens; the same obviously applies to fathers (see for example the Rendón Marín decision) or any other persons who are the primary carer of the child, such as, for example, the child's grandparent (see here S and G).

Due to subsequent cancer treatments, the wife was unlikely to be able to have children and the pre-embryos were arguably her only chance to be a biological parent.

Murphy Estate involved a dispute between the Deceased's step - children and biological children after she died leaving in a will preferring her own children and leaving her step children with only nominal gifts.

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.

The same 2005 report also showed that only 63 % of all children in the U.S. live with their biological parents.

Often the biological children have opened their hearts to the idea of having a new sister or brother only to end up feeling like the child is destroying their lives.

Of 45.5 million households that reported children in 2000, 89 percent consisted of biological children only, 3 percent consisted of stepchildren only, 4 percent had both biological and stepchildren, 2 percent consisted of adopted children only, and 2 percent had both adopted and biological children.

First, how do children in households with only one biological parent differ in terms of their cognitive, social, and emotional well - being from children in households with both biological parents?

Using the 1999 National Survey of American Families, Brown found that only 1.5 percent of all children lived with two cohabiting parents at the time of the survey.17 Similarly, an analysis of the 1995 Adolescent Health Study (Add Health) revealed that less than one - half of 1 percent of adolescents aged sixteen to eighteen had spent their entire childhoods living with two continuously cohabiting biological parents.18

The only reason children usually have strong ties to biological fathers in our society is that in most nuclear intact households, our cultural ideal, there are two full - time resident adults, and the father happens to be one of them.

Open adoption is an adoption where the birth parents (biological parents) make the choice to not only choose the adoptive parents for their child but also to develop a relationship with them.

The child will grow up knowing who ALL of his or her parents are, and as they grow older will have access to important social and genetic information that only a biological parent can provide.

«We have a biological child and our birth parents chose us because the father was an only child and he wanted to make sure their child had a sibling.

The laws regarding cohabiting partners with children usually only apply to biological children.

The Fragile Families and Child Well Being study found that only 16 percent of low - income unwed mothers who married the child's biological father, before or after the child's birth, were still married to him five years after the child's bChild Well Being study found that only 16 percent of low - income unwed mothers who married the child's biological father, before or after the child's birth, were still married to him five years after the child's bchild's biological father, before or after the child's birth, were still married to him five years after the child's bchild's birth, were still married to him five years after the child's bchild's birth.

Families with a non-biological father figure contained a higher proportion of younger parents: when children were aged 10, 18 % of mothers in families with a father figure were under 30, compared to only 3 % of families with a resident biological father.

This finding about stepmothers was somewhat surprising, given that the children's longer term primary ties were to their biological fathers and that most participants only visited their stepmothers and fathers part time when they were minors.

In addition, birth parents aren't the only ones in the biological family affected by adoption, nor are they the only ones that can provide a connection to the child's puzzle pieces.

In custodial mother families, in contrast, mother's remarriage had only a slight negative influence on adult children's relations with nonresidential biological fathers.»