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
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
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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
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Madonna was loved then in France—loved as a natural parent, a real mother.
From The Cathedral by Huysmans, J.-K. (Joris-Karl)