Sentences with phrase «parent than a biological parent»

Adoptive parents are no less of a parent than a biological parent.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

Parents who have biological or adopted children turn out to be happier in general than parents who have stepchParents who have biological or adopted children turn out to be happier in general than parents who have stepchparents who have stepchildren.

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.

Something I explain to my new parents with babies younger than 4 months of age, is about their baby's biological clock and circadian rhythms.

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

Parenting an adopted child isn't better or worse than adopting a biological one.

Another study of 2,900 Australian infants assessed at ages 1, 2 3, 5, 8, 10, and 14 years found that infants breastfed for 6 months or longer, had lower externalizing, internalizing, and total behaviour problem scores throughout childhood and into adolescence than never breastfed and infants fed for less than 6 months.8 These differences remained after statistical control for the presence of both biological parents in the home, low income and other factors associated with poor mental health.

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.

Those with overprotective parents had less grey matter in the prefrontal cortex than those who'd had healthy relationships (Progress in Neuro - Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry, DOI: 10.1016 / j.pnpbp.2010.02.025).

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.

Children raised by their biological parents may have an easier time dealing with stress than former orphans.

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.

Question: Can a student be enrolled in a charter school by a family member other than a biological parent?

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.

After reviewing family research over the last decade, the issue's big takeaway, co-authored by Princeton sociologist Sara McLanahan and Brookings economist Isabel Sawhill, was this: Whereas most scholars now agree that children raised by two biological parents in a stable marriage do better than children in other family forms across a wide range of outcomes, there is less consensus about why.

In some instances, depending on the child's history, level of trauma, and other factors, parenting an adopted child can be completely different than parenting a biological child.

This is called a de facto custodian, who can be a grandparent or other individual other than the biological parents who has been the child's primary caregiver and financial supporter.

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

Sometimes a third party, or someone other than a child's biological parents, will try to gain custody of a child.

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

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.

For 26.7 % of the children, someone other than the biological mother was interviewed when the child was 6 years old; in most of these cases, the respondent was another relative (eg, grandmother or aunt), although some respondents were nonrelative foster parents.

«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.

The fact that people are often raised by persons other than their biological parents may have diluted the effects somewhat.

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

In Georgia, a party other than the child's biological parents, such as a grandparent, may be awarded custody, when the court determines that this is in the child's best interest.

In some cases, a third party, or someone other than a child's biological parents, will try to gain custody of a child.

In some cases, a third party, or someone other than a child's biological parents, seeks to gain custody of a child.

In some cases, a third party, or someone other than a child's biological parents, seeks custody of a child.

In some cases, a third party, or someone other than a child's biological parents, gains custody of a child.

For the most part, however, we do not find this to be the case... Most notably, social fathers (overall) engage in higher levels of cooperation in parenting than biological fathers... findings provide little support for theoretical perspectives linking biology to father involvement.»

Today, a greater number of former foster children are searching for their siblings than are searching for their biological parents.

The notion is FALSE that children require a certain kind of family composition (two married biological parents) in order to do well, rather than that certain family characteristics and lifestyle advantages (such as educational opportunities, financial opportunities, stability, attention, and so forth) may be beneficial.

It's primarily about economic well - being, but: «Children living with both biological parents reported higher levels of life satisfaction than children living with a single parent or parent / step - parent... Controlling perceived family affluence, the difference between joint physical custody families and single mother or mother / stepfather families became non-significant... [and] children in the Nordic countries characterised by strong welfare systems reported significantly higher levels of life satisfaction in all living arrangements except in single father households.

Fact: «We expected that biological fathers would demonstrate higher quality parenting practices than social fathers.

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.

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

This is worrisome because decades of research show that children raised in single - parent homes fare worse on a wide range of outcomes (e.g. poverty, educational attainment, nonmarital and teen childbearing) than children raised by two biological parents.

First, children who grow up in an intact, two - parent family with both biological parents present do better on a wide range of outcomes than children who grow up in a single - parent family.

Moreover, research shows that even after one controls for a range of family background differences, children who grow up living in an intact household with both biological parents present seem to do better, on average, on a wide range of social indicators than do children who grow up in a single - parent household (McLanahan and Sandefur, 1994).