Sentences with phrase «own biological children»

C - level executives must advocate internally for benefits such as generous parental leave, considerations for same - sex couples who can not have biological children and student - loan repayment programs.

While their story of being «accidental gay parents» drew the attention of international media, they decided to expand their family by having their first biological child together.

We had that calling upon our hearts, we never felt a need to have biological children,» Polly said.

He's our child, just like our biological children.»

It is really troubling to me that, despite the number of new orphans the earthquake produced, Haiti is still clinging to it's archaic rules about couples needing to be married for 10 years, and to have no biological children, and be over 30 years old, in order to adopt.»

(My friend is pregnant with her second biological child.)

We would mother our own biological children, not someone else's.

But being a stepmother is like being in - between — not fully mother (I have no biological children of my own), not fully childless either.

Furthermore, while an intact family composed of two parents of the opposite sex and their biological child or children may provide the best standard family unit in society (and should, therefore, be given support), we would be naive and cruel to dismiss the possibility that differently configured families (e.g., families with single parents or homosexual parents or adopted children) may produce family situations that are as good as, or, in some cases, better than, those of families that fit the standard.

Rather, Garcia explains how Stein believed that «motherhood is a universal calling for women, and so not simply a task to be exercised with one's biological children.»

But even on that front, it's not clear that encouraging adoption and including adoptive children as regular, normal children on the same level as biological ones makes adoption normative in the way biological children might be.

When I realized I was not able to have biological children, I made it clear to my husband: «I am ready to adopt whenever you are.»

I imagine there's something particularly special about having a biological child with one's partner (although you don't see many people not marrying the person they love because of infertility) which we will never be able to have (the one inherent advantage to a straight relationship).

Joe and James have two children, a son, 3 and a daughter, 5, who are James» biological children, born through a surrogate and an egg donor.

O'Connor, who has one biological child and two stepchildren, connected with the fourth station, Jesus meeting his mother.

Social scientists report that fathers of out - of - wedlock children and divorced fathers give surprising little economic or emotional support to their biological children.

For the rest of us, imagine what might've happened if someone along the way decided that poverty, race, mental illness or criminal history disqualifies someone from having biological children.

We got to know his biological children that night and realized that he treated us the same way he treated them — as his family.

Adopting children is an incredibly rewarding experience for many parents whether or not they have biological children of their own.

As far as I can tell, they are her biological children.

A friend of mine named Heather is personally invested in the situation in Haiti as she and her husband (along with their two biological children) have been trying to adopt two children — Clara (age 3) and Emerson (age 1)-- from an orphanage there since March 2007.

Trystan Reese and his partner, Biff Chaplow, have welcomed their first biological child together!

We have adopted children, biological children, and sperm - donated children.

One of the reasons that Id rather have my own biological children than adopt (though I fully plan to adopt one day) is that I can't imagine raising a child that I didn't nurse.

What if you accidentally slip up and use a hurtful phrase, such as referring to a biological child as «a child of your own»?

Responding to Ms. Obama's advocacy of breastfeeding — and the IRS's recent announcement that breast pumps and other nursing supplies are now tax deductible — Bachmann (who breast - fed her own biological children) said on Laura Ingraham's radio show:

But a few South Asians were wondering why we are not exhausting all our options of having a biological child.

but it's hardly a new concept: gays and lesbians have been turning to all sorts of creative ways to have biological children, including coparenting arrangements.

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.

Now, however, the court has said that the doctor's DNA can be tested from objects from his home, ie: toothbrushes, but that the information will be sealed unless the children can prove they have a reasonable excuse for believing themselves to be the doctor's biological children.

• 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).

Maybe these outcomes reflect certain genes that parents share with their biological children, genes that facilitate the development of all three phenomena — mind - mindedness, attachment security, and early childhood mind - reading.

GUEST BIO: Mother of one biological child and a teacher / mother to many, Asadah is no stranger to raising children.

Second, our interviews and research have found that many men who initially sign up as a parenting partner with the intention to be simply a known donor (i.e., where his identity and contact information is available to the family and his biological child) actually end up becoming significantly involved in the child's life.

However, we had a newborn baby girl in our care (not our biological child) for about 2 months that we were going to adopt.

I also know families who've adopted children, and then 20 years after their marriage, they had their own biological child!

I know people who have had difficulty adopting children, either because of the cost or the process or because they weren't quite prepared to give up their dream of a biological child.

Yes your adopted child is yours and you will love this child as if it were your biological child.

But what of the parents whose biological children have serious illnesses like the children in the story?

Imagine terminating rights to your biological child.

We have always wanted to have a biological child and one via adoption.

While your family may be mom, dad and three biological children, another family may be made up of children who are adopted or a mix of both biological and adopted children.

Birth parents have considered all possible options for raising their biological child and have come to the respectable decision that the child's care would best be in the hand's of another family who can better provide for the child.

I feel that by saying APs don't raise children as if they were their own, you're implying that APs love their children less than they would / do biological children.

If your baby is your biological child you also know some family history of allergies, and you may have this info if your kid is adopted.

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

There are a lot of choices to make, not the least of which concerns maybe wanting biological children at some point in the future.

In this report, fathers include those men who are ages 15 or older, who are the head of their household, and who report living with their own minor children (biological children, step - children or adopted children).

Going into the process with the knowledge that this child is not your biological child helps to provide some separation and healthy detachment.

It also means children who are adopted have all the same emotional, social, legal and familial benefits of biological children.