How to Use birth parent in a Sentence

birth parent

noun
  • What were her birth parents’ lives like?
    — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 26 June 2026
  • Stan said he was adopted, and his search to find his birth parents had hit a dead end.
    — Abigail Van Buren, Boston Herald, 23 Apr. 2024
  • Alia also has visits with her birth parents four times a year.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 27 Aug. 2023
  • Adoptees have located birth parents they were told were dead.
    — Time, 15 May 2025
  • She was adopted because her birth parents didn't have the means to care for her.
    — Kamala Thiagarajan, NPR, 31 May 2024
  • Turns out, my birth parents had 3 more sons, all raised together.
    — Gisele Grayson, NPR, 23 May 2024
  • An adoptee wants details about the Chinese birth parents who gave her up.
    — Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 13 Sep. 2024
  • His birth parents, both college students, gave him up for adoption.
    — Chris Morris, Variety, 10 Jan. 2026
  • None of her three sisters had tried to find their birth parents, or had even been to Korea.
    — Larissa MacFarquhar, The New Yorker, 3 Apr. 2023
  • Failing to find birth parents can also send adoptees on an obsessive chase.
    — Barbara Demick, New Yorker, 23 May 2025
  • Some had been orphaned or were placed in foster homes when their birth parents became unable to care for them.
    — Ivana Kottasová, CNN, 15 Mar. 2024
  • The siblings’ parents, who knew nothing about their children’s birth parents, were blown away.
    — Sydney Page, Washington Post, 22 Aug. 2023
  • My birth parents were unable to take care of a fragile, premature baby.
    — Nicole Chung, The Atlantic, 8 Mar. 2023
  • Speaking with people my birth parents knew might give me perspective on their feelings.
    — Amy Dickinson, Washington Post, 29 Aug. 2023
  • But Chinese orphanages had no records at all of birth parents, and most clues that adoptees find are red herrings.
    — Barbara Demick, New Yorker, 23 May 2025
  • Knowing the birth parents chose them to raise their children was very important to the family.
    — Akeem Glaspie, The Indianapolis Star, 24 May 2023
  • Not every story of children reunited with their birth parents is a happy one.
    — Clay Risen, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2023
  • Children are home-schooled and are often sent to live with families different from their birth parents.
    — Lauren Lantry, ABC News, 22 June 2023
  • Many birth parents receive regular updates and photos, and some see their child in person.
    — Nicole Chung, The Atlantic, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Our feeling was that any desire to locate her birth parents needed to be driven by her, not our own interests.
    — Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 3 Mar. 2023
  • She was sent to an adoption center by her birth parents as an infant and then to France, where she was adopted by a couple.
    — Kimi Robinson, The Arizona Republic, 22 Feb. 2023
  • Jannie was able to locate her birth parents even though her initial records indicated that she had been abandoned.
    — Arin Yoon, NPR, 17 Sep. 2024
  • The little girl's birth parents were the couple's best friends but were tragically killed in a road accident.
    — Ronnie Li, USA TODAY, 8 May 2024
  • Unaware that his foster parents weren't his birth parents, Oedipus ran away from home to Thebes to avoid this tragedy.
    — Kelly Santana Banks, Discover Magazine, 12 May 2023
  • But, when the birth parent or step-parent ages and begins to decline, things can change dramatically.
    — Carolyn Rosenblatt, Forbes, 2 Nov. 2024
  • As an adult, with the blessing of his adoptive parents, Raymond began searching for his birth parents.
    — Greg Carannante, Sun Sentinel, 16 July 2024
  • The birth parents had also reported Pence to child welfare services, which angered him.
    — David Matthews, New York Daily News, 9 Apr. 2024
  • The rights of birth parents Adoption agreement legislation is murky.
    — David Oliver, USA TODAY, 21 Nov. 2024
  • What started out as a joyful reunion of a young woman with her birth parents soon turned sour, then shocking, and finally deadly.
    — CBS News, 23 Apr. 2018
  • Holly, who grew up in a loving home, was told at an early age that her birth parents loved her but had given her up because of their religious beliefs.
    — Christine Pelisek, Peoplemag, 8 Nov. 2023

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