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

In California, as in most states, the burden of proof is on the party wishing to take a child away from a natural parent.

From Time Magazine Archive

Constraint is the natural parent of resistance, and a pregnant proof that reason is not on the side of those who use it.

From The Life Of Thomas Paine, Vol. I. (of II) With A History of His Literary, Political and Religious Career in America France, and England; to which is added a Sketch of Paine by William Cobbett by Conway, Moncure Daniel