Sentences with phrase «surrogate child»

Susan Fuller completed seven surrogacies, carrying nine surrogate children for six different couples.

like plants or electronic surrogate children and the idea of having to constantly feed a starter alarmed me, particularly since I travel a lot and we have enough trouble remembering to water the plants.

Having landed the role of a lifetime as Jesse Pinkman — Breaking Bad's lovable surrogate child to Bryan Cranston's Walter White — a summer aged 27 could have seen the end of his acting career...

They may be our companions, helpers, even surrogate children.

Working dogs lead a lifestyle that would be the envy of the pet dog — plenty of freedom and exercise, plenty of mental stimulation, a purpose to their lives and the company of an owner that respects them for what they are and allows them to be dogs, not surrogate children.

I know that each and every surrogacy arrangement and relationship is unique — I've completed seven surrogacies and given birth to nine surrogate children for six different sets of intended parents.

As she rapidly grows, matures and goes through puberty, Elsa and Clive are confronted with their conflicting ideas of her as an experiment, a surrogate child and a sexually aware being.

A case could be made, I suppose, for Manny wanting a surrogate child (and Ice Age does indeed make that case), but a richer vein of forgiveness and acceptance should have been mined in the relationship between hunter and prey.

Neither of the two main female characters is a mother, but the price of fertility and the cost of being dedicated to one's profession are central themes here, as are close bonds between both men and women and their surrogate children.

As pets become more adored as family members and surrogate children, their entire lives will be handled with the utmost care and respect, and this includes the time around their deaths.

I think of my pet as a surrogate child who deserves the best.

Whether or not we consider our cats to be surrogate children, we tend to relate to them in a similar way, using motherese to communicate with them.

Dogs are embedded in myth, ritual and the human experience; their roles span from beloved pet, surrogate child, guard and working dogs, to dark, symbolic representations.

With absolutely no disrespect to the human suffering this article portrays, there are many of us who don't have children, and our pets become our surrogate children.

«Pets are always an emotive subject in divorce, to many they are surrogate children and thought of with the same amount of love and affection.

We provide advice and representation to proposed parents on the range of options available to them to obtain legal rights in respect of a surrogate child.