Example sentences of "care for a child " in BNC.
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| 1 | Joseph Gill , John Pinney 's hard-drinking cousin , lived as near by as caretaker ; Peggy Marsh , described by Dorothy as ‘ one of the nicest girls I ever saw ’ , arrived after a month to help in running the enormous house ; and from the beginning Wordsworth and Dorothy were preoccupied with caring for a child not yet three years old called Basil Montagu . |
| 2 | These tend to be those least capable of caring for a child , or those bearing a foetus with malformations for which the diagnosis is time-consuming . |
| 3 | The term abandoned is not defined in the Act but it will clearly apply where a person caring for a child has left without indicating his intention to return or making arrangements for the child 's care in his absence . |
| 4 | A parent or person caring for a child may challenge a local authority 's refusal to classify the child as " a child in need " . |
| 5 | In child protection cases the character of a parent , guardian or anyone else caring for a child is nearly always relevant . |
| 6 | A parent , guardian or person caring for a child may seek advice and assistance on his behalf ( Legal Advice and Assistance ( No 2 ) Regulations 1980 ( SI No 1898 ) , reg 8(2) and reg 14(2) ( a ) ) . |
| 7 | You labor under the idea that the best people to care for a child are the people who conceived and bore him . |
| 8 | Firstly , if you are a woman and were claiming child benefit , HRP would have been credited to you automatically , whereas a man staying at home to care for a child would have needed to arrange the transfer of child benefit to himself . |
| 9 | The desperate wish to care for a child , however sincere , is not a guarantee that white adopters will provide such an environment . |
| 10 | I accept the need to counter the myth that only a biological mother can adequately care for a child , but to say that in the interests of women 's liberation we will pay anyone except the child 's mother to look after it seems to be going a little far in the opposite direction ! |