Sentence examples for replacement children from inspiring English sources

But in practice, heterosexual couples have replacement children all the time.

"Her friends were given no way to suspect that her children were replacement children," Ms. Brown writes, "her life a replacement life, her love a replacement love.

It's taken me all my life to get over the fact my mother did not love me for who I was but that I was born to order because someone else died". Consultant psychologist Dr Pat Frankish has a special interest in parents' reactions to the loss of a child and says difficulties forming relationships are very common in replacement children.

If replacement children are brought up as substitutes, that stops them establishing a sense of themselves as a valued person, which makes it very hard to enter into relationships where they are equally matched". This situation is made harder by the fact that the child who dies is elevated to the status of unattainable perfection, says Frankish, which the subsequent child can never live up to.

Most voters will easily grasp that it is a common response to such bereavement to want a replacement child – not that a lost child can ever quite be replaced, people say – and baby Pasty is clearly the Camerons' own answer to their loss.

I am that replacement child.

Adopt a replacement child from a superior gene pool.

3. Adopt a replacement child from a superior gene pool.

The center's policy held parents liable for monthly tuition only until a replacement child was found.

Like F Scott Fitzgerald, she was a replacement child, conceived nine months after the death of her sister.

In 2007 his work on the short film The Replacement Child won the Suzanne Petit Film Editing Award from the Santa Fe Film Festival.