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Bearing cloth
A cloth with which a child is covered when carried to be baptized
Creep
ground or on any other surface on the belly as a worm or reptile to move as a child on the hands and knees to crawl
wrongful life
wrongful life : a malpractice claim brought by or on behalf of a child born with a birth defect alleging that he or she would never have been born if not for
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wrongful birth
wrongful birth : a malpractice claim brought by the parents of a child born with a birth defect against a physician or health-care provider whose alleged negligence (as in prenatal testing
surrogate
1 : one acting in the place of another ;esp : one standing in loco parentis to a child 2 often cap : the judge or judicial officer of a Surrogate's Court or Surrogate's office surrogate adj
status offender
court because of acts that would not be criminal if committed by an adult but that indicate the child is beyond parental control compare juvenile delinquent, youthful offender
caesarean section
the operation of taking a child from the womb by cutting through the walls of the abdomen and uterus so called because Julius Caeligsar
split custody
custody A form of custody (generally not looked upon favorably) in which some or one of the parties' children is/are in the custody of one parent and the remaining child(ren) is/are in the custody of the other
separation agreement
separation agreement : a contractual agreement setting forth terms pertaining to property, child support, or other matters in the separation of a married couple [incorporated the separation agreement into the divorce
representation
represented b : the substitution of an individual or class in place of a person (as when a child or children take the share of an estate that would have fallen to a deceased parent) see also
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