How to Use birth parent in a Sentence

birth parent

noun

• She’s come to Seoul for a two-week visit to seek out her birth parents.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 17 Feb. 2023
• She was adopted because her birth parents didn't have the means to care for her.
  — Kamala Thiagarajan, NPR, 31 May 2024
• 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
• Alia also has visits with her birth parents four times a year.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 27 Aug. 2023
• Both my birth parents and adoptive parents have all died.
  — Amy Dickinson, Washington Post, 29 Aug. 2023
• All of Price and Carter’s children now have been adopted by people not related to the birth parents, live out of state and their names have been changed.
  — Savannaheadens, oregonlive, 28 Mar. 2023
• 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
• 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
• Knowing the birth parents chose them to raise their children was very important to the family.
  — Akeem Glaspie, The Indianapolis Star, 24 May 2023
• The siblings’ parents, who knew nothing about their children’s birth parents, were blown away.
  — Sydney Page, Washington Post, 22 Aug. 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
• On impulse, Freddie decides to track down her birth parents.
  — Odie Henderson, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Mar. 2023
• The kids had beeb kidnapped by their birth parents, who used a Taser to stun the children's elderly caseworker at a Tucson park.
  — Kc Baker, Peoplemag, 27 Jan. 2024
• The Trump and Biden administrations have both pressed states to keep a larger percentage of kids with birth parents or kin.
  — Eli Hager, ProPublica, 16 Oct. 2023
• In the series, the spunky Mancunian teen’s search for her birth parents helps to bolster her friendship with the orphan Doctor.
  — Ellise Shafer, Variety, 25 Apr. 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
• My birth parents were unable to take care of a fragile, premature baby.
  — Nicole Chung, The Atlantic, 8 Mar. 2023
• There is the youngest generation, some of whom have open adoptions and have always known their birth parents, posting on adoptee TikTok.
  — Larissa MacFarquhar, The New Yorker, 3 Apr. 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
• Speaking with people my birth parents knew might give me perspective on their feelings.
  — Amy Dickinson, Washington Post, 29 Aug. 2023
• The birth parents had also reported Pence to child welfare services, which angered him.
  — David Matthews, New York Daily News, 9 Apr. 2024
• 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
• Once 15 months have passed since a child has been removed from their parent, in most cases child welfare agencies must file for termination of the birth parents’ rights.
  — Jessica Lussenhop, ProPublica, 15 June 2023
• And despite being raised by humans and not having a connection with its birth parents, Strate said the penguin will be able to eventually fit in with the new colony.
  — Maura Fox, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Feb. 2024
• Not every story of children reunited with their birth parents is a happy one.
  — Clay Risen, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2023
• 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
• What begins as a professional mission shifts to a journey to find Audrey’s birth parents.
  — Kimmy Yam, NBC News, 7 July 2023
• 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
• People were speculating as to whether or not a teenage Carly would want a relationship with her birth parents.
  — Angela Andaloro, Peoplemag, 10 May 2024
• Their searches were also stymied by incomplete and falsified records and local laws that prioritized birth parents’ privacy over the rights of adoptees.
  — Choe Sang-Hun, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Sep. 2023

Last Updated: 4 Nov 2024