Sentences with phrase «parents biological children»

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

As if mom shaming hasn't gone far enough, let's tell non-biological moms that what they're doing (parenting) isn't as good, or the same, as parenting a biological child.

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.

She discusses how to talk to children about adoption, how to help children feel good about themselves and how parenting an adopted child differs from parenting biological children.

What are some of the differences between parenting an adoptive child and parenting a biological child?

Parenting these kids was so different than parenting our biological children who had never been traumatized

So, yes, adoptive parenting LOOKS different than parenting biological children.

Waiting through two years of prayer and paperwork to meet their new daughter had given Jane ample time to read up on attachment in adoption, and she thought she was prepared for what lay ahead; she knew that parenting this new child would be different from parenting her biological children.

Not exact matches

And like most children who were adopted in the 60's, everything about my biological parents, my genealogy and how I came to be adopted remain cloaked behind a veil of secrecy.

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.

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.

As parents of children and children of parents, we are marked by the biological communities in which we find ourselves.

When we think about the bond of parents and children, we must think first of the family as a biological community.

With public schools fast becoming incubators of gender ideology, parents need to cast off their fears of entering the fray, speak out, and, most importantly, teach their children that their sex is a beautiful, biological reality.

They are children who have been raised by and then removed from their biological parent (s)-- how is abortion relevant to them, unless you wish they had been aborted?

Nevertheless, we need to examine whether the biological and genetic link between parent and child is so important that addressing infertility should take priority over other pressing medical concerns.

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.

In recent televised legal battles, juries returned an adopted child to a biological parent years after the adoption had been finalized.

Study after study has indicated the best environment for children to be raised and nurtured is the home of their married, biological parents.

It's this kind of research that led Princeton sociologist Sara McLanahan and her colleague Gary Sandefur to write that if they we were to design a family, the «two - parent ideal... [would ensure] that children had access to the time and money of two adults... would provide a system of checks and balances that promoted quality parenting... [and the] fact that both parents have a biological connection to the child would increase the likelihood that the parents would identify with the child and be willing to sacrifice for that child, and it would reduce the likelihood that either parent would abuse the child.»

Would you allow him to Choose whether he would want to get close to a baby knowing it was conceived within an affair, and that the biological father and his parents may wish to also be part of the childs life and he'd have to accommodate them as well?

If you are going to attempt to make the case that homosexual marriage deprives adopted children of the knowledge of their biological parents... then you must be prepared to follow the argument to its conclusion.

If parents can give a child the gift of a complicated and subtle language, they can be trusted to pass on the relatively little biological information that children need to know about sex, and in a manner that, most likely of all methods, will place it in the context of the language of love and life.

She supports a woman's right to an abortion, is against the death penalty and corporal punishment, is not in favor of adopted children digging up their biological parents against their wishes, and believes that Dr. Jack Kevorkian and the incurably ill people who turn to him for painless deaths should be left alone.

Conceiving and parenting children is an act involving many forms of creativity — biological, emotional, social, spiritual.

Even if for unfortunate circumstances, a particular child can not have its own biological parents, the child is in general still better off having a mother and father.

Even adopted children know that they originate from the love and the desire of their parents, even when these are not their biological parents.

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

Founded in 1989, Center Families programs include support groups for LGBT parents and prospective parents; trainings for teachers and school administrators; advocacy and activist efforts; support around alternative insemination and other biological parenthood options; forums on custody issues when LGBT parents separate; financial planning for alternative families; and recreational programs for children 8 and under (Halloween Parties, Holiday Parties, Play Days, etc.).

This is important because it helps create a situation where dads (by which we mean the full diversity of men with a significant caring role in children's lives, including biological and other fathers and father - figures), as well as mums (in a similarly diverse sense), feel comfortable and valued — in the context of a culture which still privileges women as more naturally suited to caring, and more important as parents (and by extension, less important in other contexts, eg the workplace).

Grandparents, step - parents, same - sex partners and other people with day to day care of a child can be awarded Parental Responsibility as well as the biological parents.

Journal of Economic Psychology, 25, p.1 - 14 Flouri, E. (2004) «Correlates of parents» involvement with their adolescent children in restructured and biological two - parent families: The role of child characteristics.»

What would be so wrong about insisting individuals who want to raise children — whether they're single, married, living together, in a civil union or whatever; straight or gay; and whether the child is biological or adopted — take parenting classes, outline a parenting plan, and have to prove him / herself financial responsible before he / she could apply for a parenting license and pop out a baby?

The M.O.R.G.A.N. Project The M.O.R.G.A.N. Project stands for Making Opportunities Reality Granting Assistance Nationwide.This group, established by parents Robert and Kristen Malfara, supports families in their journey of raising a special needs child, be that child biological, adopted or within the foster care system.

Supporting children's relationship to their biological parent who does not live in the stepfamily is important to healthy development.

A mother whether an adoptive parent or biological parent should do everything that helps her child grow emotionally and physically.

Some biological parents take their children for granted.

He / she is issued a falsified birth certificate called an «amended birth certificate» that lists the adoptive parents as the child's biological parents.

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.

We believe that many modern day parenting practices have been forgotten about the biological norms of infants and children.

Esther has experience working with parents and young children in biological, foster, and adoptive homes.

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

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.

The analysis also compared children who were raised by adoptive mothers to children who were raised by their biological mothers in an effort to tease out the influence of genetics and parenting styles on any link between prenatal smoking and behavior.

A falsified «amended» one is issued listing the adoptive parents as the child's biological parents.

Adoption creates a new legal parent - child relationship in the adoptive family with all of the rights and responsibilities of a biological parent - child relationship.

Since switching to open adoption, the yearly reunion held at The Cradle now sees children with two nametags: one for the name given to them by their biological parents and one for the name given to them by their adoptive parents.

Parents go through excruciating conflict, ambivalence and worry about using medication with their children who are suffering from a psychiatric or neuro - biological illness.

The reality is that any parent, adoptive or biological, whose child is suffering so greatly and is out of control, is in desperate need of help.

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