Sentences with phrase «parents had biological children»

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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.

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?

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 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 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?

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.

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

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?

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

This meant that our post-placement correspondence with our child's biological parent or parents would go through the agency.

She's interested in an «ethic of responsible parenthood,» which sounds good on surface but borders on elitism once you start exploring what that may mean: George Lucas adopted two children as a single man and I will bet that Sawhill would not insist that he have a partner first and wait until they are «ready to be parents» — he was wealthy enough to hire surrogate moms until he married again and, last year, became a biological dad at age 69.

Many children are a product of divorce, are in touch with both their biological and adopted parents, have two moms or two dads (or both), or are being raised by their grandparents.

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.

It's easy for people to forget that, regardless of what kind of parent we are, whether it's biological, step -, or adoptive, we have been given a gift in being able to be a part of a child's life.

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.

Keep in mind, this is not the fault of the child or the parent, it is a biological function that has occurred and there are solutions for bed - wetting.

Mom to two older children, Pattaramon says that she feels bonded to baby Gammy and would never give him to the biological parents.

child's biological parents, including their ages and medical histories like if they any disorders or diseases or whether they were known to have abused alcohol or drugs.

«Secrecy in adoption probably has its roots in a desire to protect the child from interference from the biological parents and to hide the often illegitimate circumstances of the child's origins.»

For example, if one of your child's biological parents has hay fever or pet allergies, there's a 40 to 50 percent chance your child will have some sort of allergy as well.

And also remembering that children generally don't become available for adoption and placements aren't made because the biological parents have a stable home that they can bring a baby into.

This has certain merits of its own; the child would not feel any urge to find his / her real parents later in life, and the biological relation would allow the parents to contribute in many medical emergencies, like blood and bone marrow donation.

Dear Abby: I have read in your column so many times about agencies that help adopted children «find «their biological parents, but since I am not adopted, I never gave the subject much thought, until now.

Usually, this includes the biological parents, the adoption agency, the child's legal representative if a court has appointed one, and the child himself if he is old enough.

My advice for adoptive parents is to be straightforward and honest about what kind of relationship you are willing to have with the biological parents of your adopted child / children.

As we have seen from parenting as well as lesbian parenting studies, that person can be a man, but a female partner to the biological mother seems to work out just as well, as long as the two people in the parenting relationship are together, in love and working together to raise the child.

Biological parents have a right to seek child visitation or child custody.

I consulted with foster parents, children who were in foster care and parents who had their biological children in foster care.

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.»

Fertility law should recognise the rights of children to know their biological parents and not hide their identity, an independent peer has claimed.

Just two days after the state's highest court expanded the definition of a parent to include caretakers who did not officially adopt or do not have biological ties to their children — a Manhattan mom was the first to benefit from the new ruling in a custody case yesterday.

A recent report on genome editing from the National Academies did not call for a moratorium on research into germline editing, arguing that it might one day be a way for some parents to have healthy, biological children, such as when both mother and father carry genetic mutations that cause severe diseases.

The point is that no child conceived with the aid of assisted reproductive technologies should be denied the lineage and biological ties to two parents that all children born «naturally» have.

In the UK, children who are born as the result of egg, sperm and embryo donation have the right, once they reach 18, to ask the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority to disclose the identity of their biological parents.

Several studies have shown that in households where the biological father is missing, children reach sexual maturity, have their first sexual experience, and are more likely to become teenage parents at a younger age.

Contrary to the studies that Harris cites, Flinn has found that children who live with both biological parents clearly do best.

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.

But the success of an in vitro procedure is far from guaranteed, especially when the mother is in her mid-thirties or older, so cloning one of the parents may be their final hope for having a child with a biological tie.

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

Similar to traditional adoption, patients who decide to use a donated embryo also have to consider how to tell their child about their biological parents.