Perhaps as Generation Facebook grows up, the virtual parent-child relationship will sort itself out.

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This type of legal maneuvering undermines the very purpose of adoptions, i.e. creating or formalizing a parent-child relationship.

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However, the degree of aggression and dissocial acts means it is more serious than just a difficult parent-child relationship.

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Another article says that preference should be given to traditional (ie heterosexual) family relationships, and says that marriage and the parent-child relationship form the basis of the traditional family.

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By way of example, the relationship between the primary financial account holder and the subsidiary account holder may be that of a parent-child relationship, employer-employee relationship, or the like.

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There are problems in every parent-child relationship.

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The Capobiancos think the issue should be about whether the ICWA law can improperly block adoption proceedings voluntarily initiated by a non-Indian mother who had sole custody of her child, due to what the adoptive parents say is the Indian father's failure to establish a legal parent-child relationship under state law.

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Still, Sonderegger continued calling his birth mother "Jarrett" and made it clear that their relationship was a friendship and not necessarily parent-and-child.

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Oxytocin in particular is crucial in bonding partner to partner (levels correlate with the success of a relationship), as well as parent to child, even pet-owner to pet.

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