But under the new law, second parents who have been waiting to adopt their partners' children will be able to do so, making courts more willing to terminate parental rights of biological, but absent parents.
Even with various financial aids, some children still do not attend kindergarten — either because of poverty, parental ignorance of value of preschool education and absent parents due to incarceration or who are in drug rehabilitation.
Jokes are made about absent parents.
Being bankrolled by Scottie and/or his absent parents?
Cigarettes are notoriously absent parents, because they are inanimate objects.
(Absent parents, not incidentally, are a theme of this story).
Absent parents and widespread drug use are part of a mix of troubling circumstances.
The new body will be able force absent parents to pay for their children.
Evil villains are notoriously absent parents, because they are evil villains.
Magicians are notoriously absent parents because they like to disappear all the time.
The plans imply higher maintenance payments for 30% of absent parents.
