Sentences with phrase «with biological children»

I went 15 years without any contact with my biological children.

At home, people who adopt often try parenting techniques that work with their biological children.

Parents who claim adopted children as dependents are required to pay child support at the same rate as parents with biological children despite the payment of any adoption assistance.

My relationships with my biological children are different.

I am a divorcee with no biological children, who spoils her niece, nephew and God children.

The statement added that «Atiku Abubakar's large heart and his maturity should be celebrated for giving his step son equal treatment with his biological children, a plus to his outstanding leadership qualities.»

Of course, as with biological children, there are no guarantees this will happen.

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.

• Fathers» new partners (more than mothers» new partners) tend to be less supportive of their mate's relationship with his biological children, being more often ambivalent or hostile (for review, see Hetherington & Henderson, 1997).

The relationship isn't as natural and organic as it is with the biological child.

The sample is composed of parents residing together with their biological child at the time the child is 9 months old, where both the mother and father completed the self - report interview (N = 5,788).

As a parent shares on average 50 % of their genes with a biological child, accurate estimates of the magnitude of intergenerational associations in these problem behaviors are needed in order to identify contributing factors that could be targets of intervention.

Not exact matches

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.

However, she later found out that this wasn't the case: her mother had been unable to care for her at the time of her birth, but later married her biological father and had another child with him.

While Robert Kraft is not the biological father, he is thrilled with Ricki's blessing of having a healthy child.

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.

(My friend is pregnant with her second biological child.)

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.

Rather, Garcia explains how Stein believed that «motherhood is a universal calling for women, and so not simply a task to be exercised with one's biological children.»

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.»

The moment some raises the point that children ideally are raised in a home with their own biological mothers and fathers, the cry goes up that this hardly ever happens.

I imagine there's something particularly special about having a biological child with one's partner (although you don't see many people not marrying the person they love because of infertility) which we will never be able to have (the one inherent advantage to a straight relationship).

From the moment when, as I have said, the phyletic strands began to reach towards one another, weaving the first outlines of the Noosphere, a new matrix, co-extensive with the whole human group, was formed about the newly - born human child — a matrix out of which he can not be wrenched without incurring mutilation in the most physical core of his biological being.

O'Connor, who has one biological child and two stepchildren, connected with the fourth station, Jesus meeting his mother.

As the founder of Project Rachel, the post-abortion healing ministry of the Catholic church in the United States and abroad, I stumbled into the biological science of human bonding while trying to find a way to help women who have had abortions to be able to bond with their unborn children in subsequent pregnancies.

He may or may not live with the child's mother, and he may or may not be the biological father to the child.

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).

One of the joys I have found is that with all six of my children, I see no difference in skin color and no difference between biological and adoptive.

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.»

A friend of mine named Heather is personally invested in the situation in Haiti as she and her husband (along with their two biological children) have been trying to adopt two children — Clara (age 3) and Emerson (age 1)-- from an orphanage there since March 2007.

You can't force a child to sleep (a real problem with teens whose biological rhythms are at odds with their school schedules).

It works great on just about any biological stain or odor you may encounter with children and pets.

The percentage of domestic and international adoptions represented in CAFFA is almost equal, with many families consisting of both biological and adoptive children.

Adolescent mothers» relationships with their children's biological fathers: social support, social strain, and relationship continuity.

• The stepfather - child relationship is substantially more challenging than the biological - father - child relationship: the relationship is not as close; stepfathers are less affectionate and more coercive with stepchildren; and stepchildren tend to be less warm and affectionate with stepfathers — even in long - term fairly successful stepfamilies (for review see Radhakrishna et al, 2001).

And during that time, we became involved with a support group to help us through the process and getting advice on what to do in terms of experiencing the grief and a loss of not having a biological child.

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

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.

-- Children will have the opportunity to know who their biological father is, and the door is left open to have the opportunity to develop a relationship with their father.

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.

Usually, the child's biological family chooses the adoptive family, and decides how much future contact the original family will continue to have with the newly created family.

Only with a larger pool of foster and adoptive families to choose from, can the New Jersey State of Division of Youth and Family Services make better initial placement decisions and keep more siblings together, when circumstances require the removal of children from their biological homes.

Today in the United States, 24 million children do not live with their biological father.

Children living with both biological parents are 20 to 35 percent more physically healthy than children from homes without both biological parents Children living with both biological parents are 20 to 35 percent more physically healthy than children from homes without both biological parents children from homes without both biological parents present.

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.

About 40 % of children who do not live with their biological father have not seen him during the past 12 months; more than half of them have never been in his home and 26 % of those fathers live in a different state than their children.

«In November, we were able to spend a lot of time with our child's biological brother and his family (by adoption).»