After this period they will either return to their parents or be placed in permanent adoption with foster parents

13.3 Maintenance from Parents

Poor Dad, have you forgotten that we might as well be the children of loving parents?

Listen to me, as your adopted father.

Yet your Heavenly Father feeds them.

Plus, I have to care for your parents.

You're a foster child.

259. Parents are obliged to provide for the maintenance of their children.

The way her folks took me in and raised me...

The survivor's pension for children, who have lost both parents, is calculated taking into account the possible old age pension of both parents.

The changes ensure that the rights of the adoptive parents and adopted children are similar to the rights of other parents and children in Iceland.

169. In the case of adoption, there is a leave of up to 24 weeks after the child moves into the parents apos home.

Delinquent minors are also accommodated in the two children s homes or with foster parents.

Parents are obliged to support their minor children, and if they refuse to do so, the money for supporting the children (maintenance) is collected from the parents by the court (art. 80 of the Family Code).

Parenting orders were made in favour of a father (S).

The father is under obligation to maintain his children during the period of custody.

The Family Law required parents to provide for all children as long as they were minors or for a maximum of one year beyond that until secondary school graduation.

If the adoptive parents are unmarried, or are of the same sex and married to each other, the child keeps the surname he she already has unless an explicit choice is made for the surname of one of the adoptive parents.

85. Far more detailed rules were enacted concerning the placement of children in foster homes and the legal status of children in foster homes, the foster parents and the natural parents.

257. The maintenance advance fund helps single mothers and fathers in cases where the other parent fails to pay maintenance for the child.

Parental responsibilities and recovery of maintenance for the child

She had to raise me all by herself, after my father died.

According to the author, this decision is surprising bearing in mind that no application had been made for custody in favour of the grandparents, the father having sought custody for himself.

Newborn babies are able to recognize their parents (or other caregivers) very soon after birth, and they engage actively in non verbal communication.

The Convention emphasizes that both parents have common responsibilities for the upbringing and development of the child , with fathers and mothers recognized as equal caregivers (art.

Dear Birthmother, I have great parents.

Parents are equally responsible for the development and upbringing of their children.

A crucial role for parents and other primary caregivers.

Parents primary caregivers and children's best interests.

He paid for his schooling and maintained Ruby throughout his life.

We should punish the parents for the way they raise their children.

Secondly, guardianship and custody had been granted to the grandparents although that solution had not been requested by the father or subjected to any opposing arguments.

During the divorce of marriage or end of parents' life together, the child children is, according to the decision of the court, entrusted to one of the parents to be raised, cared for, and supported, with the obligation of the other parent to contribute to this support.

2.2 On 12 July 1993, the father applied to the court for a change in the arrangements for guardianship and custody, asking for custody of Daniel to be withdrawn from the mother and custody of both sons entrusted to the father.

Parents have the completely same rights and duties as far as the supporting of children is concerned, and children, regardless whether they are male or female, have the same duties related to the supporting of their parents.

The Committee notes with concern that there is an increasing number of children without adequate parental support due to various reasons, inter alia, the lack of child support by fathers.

(iii) Where there is no dependent spouse, a single annual allowance shall be paid for a secondary dependant in respect of either a dependent parent, a dependent brother or a dependent sister

The same applies to parents maintaining a disabled child at home.

If possible, the State recovers the maintenance advance benefits from the parent who is obliged to provide maintenance.

72. A new Act on the rights of adoptive parents and adopted children came into force in Iceland on 19 December 1995.

Frequently, grandparents are raising their grandchildren because parents, due to alcoholism, domestic violence and general apathy, cannot raise them.

Their dependent children, if any, may accompany either parent.

I'll have a place to bring up my boy as his father would have wished.

He is often encouraged to do so by his parents, who may not have sufficient resources to support the whole family.

In custody and adoption procedures, and as far as raising and caring for children is concerned, parents' responsibilities do not differ.