Sentence examples for second parent from inspiring English sources

But the status of the second parent is less clear.

In 1995, the State Court of Appeals ruled definitively that state law permitted "second parent" adoption.

"We're all trying to solve a mystery," said a second parent.

The differences come not just from the absence of a second parent.

Juliet and I had been affianced beside my father's deathbed--Torella was to be a second parent to me.

The other, or second, parent must petition for adoption to establish a legally binding relationship with the child.

Second, parent-child interactions, like positive parenting behaviour and parental involvement with their child's treatment, are additional protective factors.

SECOND-PARENT ADOPTION Your marital status does not matter here.

Wisconsin, Ohio and Colorado have rejected second-parent adoptions.

Laws in two other states, Mississippi and Utah, effectively ban second-parent adoptions.

The issue of so-called second-parent adoptions has been fiercely contested in many states.