Clearly, not all children have two 'natural' parents, a mother and a father.

Katie now worried about the baby's future if she gave him to his natural parents.

She'd been taken from her natural parents and placed in foster care.

Our policy, however, has long been that to the extent possible, children should remain with and be brought up by both of their natural parents.

I often wondered what it would be like to find my natural parents.

The majority of children under 16 live with both their natural parents.

"Some hope to get back with their natural parents," she said.

The most important of these is protection from your natural parents: they cannot contact you by any legal means.

"Will you also run a full check on Fox's natural parents?"

"For one thing, they grow up and want to know who their natural parents are," he said.