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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Natural parents find it just as hard to understand and meet the needs of their adolescent children.

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.

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

You loved me more than most natural parents love their children."

A private investigator sets out to find a woman's natural parents.

Those on whom it fell went back to their natural parents loving them more.

More than 78 percent of the children lived in households lacking both natural parents.

Most children find that in their own home with their natural parents.

Case studies of adopted children finding their natural parents always fascinated me.

Busch had little contact with his natural parents during this period.

When he was still very young, they sat him down and told him about his natural parents.

More than 80 percent lived at home with one or more natural parents.

By chance, they found the lawyer who represented Tina when she was taken from her natural parents.

The child could be returned to its natural parents or stay in the care of Chrysis.

"Only a minority of American children may now expect to reach age 18 having lived continuously with their natural parents," he said.

The adults are the child's natural parents, but they are not married.

The process is often long and complex, particularly when people who want to adopt must overcome legal claims of children's natural parents.

Adoption involves the legal transfer of responsibility for a child from its natural parents.