natural parent
Americannoun
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A research team at NYU Langone Health sought to answer the question by creating a large, synthetic gene, with its DNA code in reverse order from its natural parent.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 6, 2024
“I mean, a child should always be with his natural parent unless there’s something really bad going on at home,” she said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2022
The cloned child would be a genetically identical twin of the original, and thus physically very similar--far more similar than a natural parent and child.
From Time Magazine Archive
Through all this, the foster parents have to stifle the temptation to divide the child's loyalty, especially when the natural parent is obviously unfit.
From Time Magazine Archive
The adopted parent has all the rights over and duties toward the person of the adopted child that a natural parent has, including necessaries and religious training.
From The Clergyman's Hand-book of Law by Charles M. Scanlan
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