natural parent
Americannoun
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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
"That child is beginning to blossom, and will sometimes compete with the natural parent."
From Time Magazine Archive
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
How could he choose for his second father the very man who had deprived him of his first and natural parent?
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, November, 1845. by Various
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