Sentences with phrase «parental rights as»

In For the Love of Eryk, Rod McCall shares his personal experience with Parental Alienation, which was so severe, it led to the death of his son Eryk; killed by the hands of his own mother when she lost her parental rights as the courts finally saw through her alienating behavior.
While unmarried couples enjoy many of the same parental rights as married couples, the route to establishing those rights is often more complex.
However, it also gives him the ability to pursue other parental rights as well.
Eric A. Stovall is an experienced Nevada adoption attorney that can address any of your adoption needs for parental rights issues, surrogacy, mediation, termination of parental rights as well as legal matters in business litigation and personal injury.
However, doing everything he can to form a parental relationship, making himself as available as possible, and seeking legal recognition parental rights as soon as possible helps a father best position himself to maintain a say in adoption and other parental decisions.
«I wanted to look at whether, in the unfortunate event of maternal death, a father could take over the maternity leave and benefits so that as sole surviving parent he had the same parental rights as new mothers and more importantly could provide the same level of child care.»

Not exact matches

Perhaps the most common use of the language of parental rights is to protect the possessive claims of those whose history of abuse or neglect as parents has largely undermined their claim to the title.
I concluded at the time of the riots that of all the things the government now needed to do, it was the married family which most urgently needed to be rebuilt: I was and remain as certain of that as anything I have ever written, and I have been saying it repeatedly for over 20 years: I was saying it, for instance, when I was attacking (in The Mail and also The Telegraph), as it went through the Commons, the parliamentary bill which became that disastrous piece of (Tory) legislation called the Children Act 1989, which abolished parental rights (substituting for them the much weaker «parental responsibility»), which encouraged parents not to spend too much time with their children, which even, preposterously, gave children the right to take legal action against theirparents for attempting to discipline them, which made it «unlawful for a parent or carer to smack their child, except where this amounts to «reasonable punishment»;» and which specified that «Whether a «smack» amounts to reasonable punishment will depend on the circumstances of each case taking into consideration factors like the age of the child and the nature of the smack.»
Thus, by abandoning the man - woman distinction in favor of the heterosexual - homosexual distinction, homosexual activists demand not parenthood (paternity or maternity), but the right to some new abstract parental status that reduces the role of the «parent» to the exercise of certain functions such as education.
The government had initially planned to extend statutory maternity pay (SMP) from 39 to 52 weeks at the same time as increasing paternity rights, which will allow parents to share up to six months parental leave after the baby's first six months.
And even if they can, many lawyers still advise that gay couples go through second parent adoptions as a means to protect their parental rights to their children.
The Mississippi Supreme Court ruled yesterday that a nonbiological mother has the same rights as a biological one, overturning a lower court ruling that had given parental rights to her child's anonymous sperm donor instead.
• all aspects of pregnancy, birth and new parenthood from a dad's perspective, including the most important health issues for his partner and baby • information on paternity leave and fathers» legal rights, including Parental Responsibility • sex during and after pregnancy • the financial help available to families • entertainment such as «the best toys for dads».
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This appears unlikely; in one case, the KS Supreme Court found that a sperm donor had no parental rights, as there was no agreement otherwise in writing.
«We need a level playing field on parental rights and pay — between those classified as «workers», «employees» and «self - employed»,» says the organisation's Julia Waltham.
Men who find themselves as unwed parents, whether intentionally or not, need to take appropriate steps to ensure their parental rights and to meet their parental obligations.
You can't make a promise like that as a parent — to put someone who gave away their parental rights over what's best for your child.
As the Scottish Executive puts finishing touches to the Family Law Bill — including automatic Parental Rights and Responsibilities for most unmarried fathers — the UK government has fathers in mind in a different way.
You have no genetic relationship to the child or children who you carry as a surrogate, and have no parental rights.
But when you have chosen the right residential treatment program for your troubled teen, you need to overcome those feelings of parental guilt, as you have done the best you could for your child.
This meant that, while not necessarily splitting their children's time equally — that arrangement, known as «joint physical custody,» is both more cumbersome and less common — they continued to fully share parental rights and responsibilities.
Fathers who are seeking custody of children should prepare themselves as best as possible for a child custody battle to exercise their full parental rights.
Their parental leave is not unprotected as is the case with many low - income parents whose jobs aren't even covered by the FMLA, but it is still under - protected in that they can not enjoy their full rights and their bonds with their infants may still suffer.
As your surrogacy agency, we refer you to an attorney who specializes in family formation law to ensure that your parental rights are affirmed and safeguarded.
All mothers and most fathers have legal rights and responsibilities as a parent - known as «parental responsibility».
As is similar in most European countries, Swedish women have about a year of maternity and parental leave at about 75 % pay, and the right to gradually go back to work, starting at even an hour a day if they want.
Under Alabama law, a court may consider an award of joint custody, whereby the parental rights of both parties remain intact, with one parent as the primary custodian of the children and the other as the secondary custodian.
We specifically designed this webinar as a resource for service providers working with pregnant and parenting moms who are at risk of having their parental rights terminated.
What I found interesting in their situation was how the decision was in part financial, but more about how they defined parental leave — and how they aligned to mum having all of it as being the right thing for them.
But Cook, who describes herself as pro-life, refused to have an abortion, and is seeking parental rights.
As with married couples, civil partners are subject to a legal framework of rights and obligations in a wide range of areas including taxation and benefits, maintenance and parental responsibility, inheritance of tenancy agreements, hospital visiting rights, protection from domestic violence and immigration and nationality issues.
If the new combination of gene variants make the offspring better suited for growth in its current environment, that bacterium will rapidly divide asexually, outcompete its parental (or sibling) strains and become established as an emerging strain or species in its own right.
For same - sex couples with children, the end of their relationship can mean difficulties in establishing parental rights for both parents when one partner is not recognized as a legal parent by the state and by the court, and therefore is not granted custody or visitation.
Laura would like to see vaccine mandates banned completely and forever, the 1986 National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act repealed (as it removed liability from those who make and administer vaccines), the 1905 Jacobson vs. Massachusetts decision overturned, and the full restoration of individual and parental rights with regard to medical decision making, including vaccination decisions.
Although initially sceptical about the need for change, as the blinders are ripped from her eyes Maud realizes she must play her part to secure a brighter future for women across the country — which means equal pay, parental rights for mothers, access to education and a slew of other human rights — all of which she and other women of all social and economic classes were denied.
As one parental delegate put it, no one disputed the right of the UFT chair to file grievances.
While the market and parental - rights models tend to conceive schooling as a service commodity, with educators as «providers» and families (and businesses) as «clients» or «consumers,» the model sketched here follows James Davison Hunter, author of The Death of Character, and Robert J. Nash, author of Answering the Virtuecrats, in conceiving of schools as moral communities.
(8) John Locke and Jean - Jacques Rousseau talked about «the parental obligation to educate their children -LSB-...] Education was perceived as being of such vital importance for human life that it was conceived as pre-existing or natural right -LSB-...] ``: see Hodgon, D, ref 4 pp 7 - 8.
That opportunity should be available to all families, regardless of income, as the parental right to contest child placements should be replaced with the parental power to choose an alternative educational environment when the current one isn't working.
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Known as the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the document — which must be ratified by 20 countries to become effective — sets standards on various issues that affect children, including education, adoption, parental care, health, child labor, and abuse and neglect.
«This report compiles skewed and incomplete data that, in the authors» own words, is largely based on «assumptions» and «suggestions,» and it neglects to take into consideration important factors, such as parental choice, the similarity of student populations between inner city charters and inner city traditional schools, and that charter schools intentionally locate in neighborhoods with the greatest need, a fact that we would hope champions of civil rights would celebrate, not condemn.
It is a stance that is not only unethical but places them and their school boards in significant legal jeopardy as they violate parental rights.
As if the state and local effort to undermine parental rights wasn't outrageous enough, parents are reporting that some school districts are actually going after the children themselves.
Others, skillfully navigate Philly's public school system as they choose the right fit for their own child, all the while either whispering their support for parental school choice or shamefully, hypocritically decrying the idea of choice.
Annual testing was the only effective means to catch how he was being poorly served and demand that someone do something about it, and Secretary Duncan even presented annual testing of all students as a parental tool: «Will we work together to ensure every parent's right to know every year how much progress her child is making in school?
Where that's the case, they're right to suggest that «test scores should be put in context and should not automatically occupy a privileged place over parental demand and satisfaction as short - term measures of school choice success or failure.»
As a result, parents» rights and responsibilities are again in the forefront as a necessary ingredient for appropriate and individualized educational programming, mandating that schools provide an opportunity for active parental participation in decisions about the education of childreAs a result, parents» rights and responsibilities are again in the forefront as a necessary ingredient for appropriate and individualized educational programming, mandating that schools provide an opportunity for active parental participation in decisions about the education of childreas a necessary ingredient for appropriate and individualized educational programming, mandating that schools provide an opportunity for active parental participation in decisions about the education of children.
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