natural parent

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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

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

"That child is beginning to blossom, and will sometimes compete with the natural parent."

From Time Magazine Archive

Walker, misunderstanding the purport of his words, replied:— "Yes, she is a good and affectionate child, as much so as if I were her natural parent."

From The Mysteries of Montreal Being Recollections of a Female Physician by Fuhrer, Charlotte