Sentences with phrase «american families and children»

None of the studies that examined the association between parental expectations of European American families and children's achievement failed to find an association.

«This is an organization that historically has been looked upon to help African - American families and children have better outcomes.

In addition to the Trump administration's direct policy actions, Trump's bigoted and offensive rhetoric has assaulted our racial, ethnic, and religious minorities, implying that millions of American families and children are less than full members of our society.

A mindfulness practitioner and a long - time champion of efforts to improve the health and well - being of American families and children, Congressman Ryan is also a public advocate for mindfulness - based programs in schools, the military, and the health - care system.

Crossing the Divide: Asian American Families and the Child Welfare System (PDF - 925 KB) Lee & Lee (2001) Describes traditional Asian values and explains the importance of cultural sensitivity for family preservation and child protective services.

Not exact matches

The researchers drew their data from a number of British and American longitudinal surveys, including the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study, which includes nearly 5,000 participants born in big US cities between 1998 and 2000.

Unlike Americans, however, residents of New Zealand enjoy the protection of a robust welfare state including a public health system, 18 weeks of subsidized parental leave and benefits for middle - and low - income families with young children.

A little over five years ago, Joel Young found himself in a situation many American families are facing: He was deeply in debt with a less than stable job and young children to provide for.

Bill Child, who built the Utah - based RC Willey furniture store chain with his family, has donated millions to American Indian Services and funded scholarships for Native Americans.

North Americans now spend more on pet accessories than they do on children's toys, and they treat their pets «as actual family,» says Little.

«We've been deeply committed to helping parents afford the costs of raising and caring for their children since the early days of the administration and will continue to advocate for relief for American families in the coming weeks.»

«American's primary concern is for the Zanone family and their young child,» the airline said in a statement.

Of those, eight people from five families — including two children — would be diagnosed with symptoms that were milder than those of almost all the American patients: nosebleeds, dizziness, headaches and insomnia.

Schulman hopes that, armed with new federal funding to tackle these challenges, states will step up and begin filling the gaping holes in the American child care system — smoothing out the child care cliff while also making it easier for families access care in the first place, increasing the number of American kids who spend their days playing, coloring, building, and singing in a safe, caring environment their parents can actually afford.

And that private adoption process can easily put a financial strain on families, with the cost spiking as high as $ 30,000 said Josh Kroll, a project coordinator of the Adoption Subsidy Resource Center at the North American Council on Adoptable Children.

Her backstory of growing up in an African - American family of 10 children in inner - city Detroit is remarkably aligned with the foundation's mission of helping kids and families succeed in some of the poorest corners of the U.S. Among other things, under Tabron's leadership at Kellogg, the foundation has doubled down on its prescient — and bold — racial equity work.

The Senate bill also eliminates the personal exemption many Americans take to lower their taxable income, but it does expand the tax credits for families with children and nearly doubles the «standard deduction» taken by tens of millions of taxpayers who don't itemize their returns.

Cracking down on asylum - seekers — particularly Central American children and families.

Most Supreme Court watchers are predicting that a majority of justices will side with the petitioner — Mark Janus, a child support specialist for the Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services — against labor in Janus v. American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees, Council 31.

The President of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), Dr. Colleen Kraft, published an op - ed in today's Los Angeles Times stating, «The government's practice of separating children from their parents at the border counteracts every science - based recommendation I have ever made to families who seek to build, and not harm, their children's intellectual and emotional development.»

the main people getting publicity for dying are muslims currently, however, in the 10 - 40 window, Africa, and Asia (not only there but those are the most obvious), thousands of Christians are being burned to death, chopped up as if they were meat, rolled over by steam rollers after their persecuters have hung their families and children, and much worse forms of torture that as an American i can't even begin to relate to, EVERY DAY in the name of Jesus.

Life as We Know It: A Father, a Family, and an Exceptional Child By Michael Bérubé Pantheon, 284 pages, $ 24 Michael Bérubé, a professor of American and African - American literature at the University of Illinois and, since 1991, the father of a son with Down syndrome, has produced....

on behalf of a man who was not denied his freedom of speech but merely his freedom from reproach for freely speaking hatred, Syrian families were being murdered, Honduran children were falling ill from unclean water, and American citizens were being denied equality.

Some months back, Americans found bewildered fascination in the story of John Emil List, a Missouri Synod Lutheran who, out of despair over his inability to provide for his family and concern over the state of their souls, killed his mother, wife, and three children.

The distinction between the nuclear and traditional family was also blurred in the recent report on human sexuality by the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) titled Keeping Body and Soul Together: «Although many Christians in the post-World War II era have a special emotional attachment to the nuclear family, with its employed father, mother at home, and two or more school - aged children, that profile currently fits only 5 percent of North American households.»

And thanks to the fine work of Fincher and his colleagues, 2 million working American families, children and seniors have already been cut off from food assistanAnd thanks to the fine work of Fincher and his colleagues, 2 million working American families, children and seniors have already been cut off from food assistanand his colleagues, 2 million working American families, children and seniors have already been cut off from food assistanand seniors have already been cut off from food assistance.

Gender and Family in the Ivory Tower, Mary Ann Mason reports that while women in so - called «fast - track professions» have fewer children than does the average American woman, female faculty are almost half as likely as female physicians and slightly less likely than female lawyers to have a child at all, even though academia offers far more flexible hours than the average law firm or hospital.

Meanwhile, a group of 160 African - American community leaders sent NAACP a letter detailing their own objections to its charter - school opposition on behalf of «700,000 black families choosing to send their children to charter public schools, and the tens of thousands more who are still on waiting lists.»

Another 30 % of the american population list themselves as christians just because they like being in the social club and don't want their loving christian friends and family alienating them even though they have realized over the years that all this garbage they were brainwashed with as children is really quite laughable.

For a helpful analysis of the changing family see «Children and Families: Myth and Reality,» in Kenneth Keniston and The Carnegie Council on Children, All Our Children: The American Family Under Pressure (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1977), pp. 2family see «Children and Families: Myth and Reality,» in Kenneth Keniston and The Carnegie Council on Children, All Our Children: The American Family Under Pressure (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1977), pp. 2Family Under Pressure (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1977), pp. 2 - 21.

Ever since the 1965 Moynihan Report on «The Negro Family,» the rate of children born in African - American homes without fathers has been a key statistic in social science discussions and policy debates.

Stanley Hauerwas, an American theologian who has thought deeply about disability, wrote an essay on abortion that joins up biblical convictions to arrive at this conclusion: «The church is a family into which children are brought and received.

Whatever the cause, it is undisputed today, over thirty years after the Kauai study began, that more American children are in poverty and in broken families than ever before.

«When Americans are able to live by their convictions, to speak openly of their faith, and to teach their children what is right, our families thrive, our communities flourish, and our nation can achieve anything at all.»

Gary Bauer, undersecretary of education and chairman of a White House task force on the American family, has been quoted as saying that his group's goal is «to tell children [that premarital sex] is wrong and explain why it's bad for them — not to teach them so much about sex that they can engage in it in early adolescence.»

Americans want great schools for their children, safe neighborhoods for their families, and good jobs for themselves.

I google'd her family - She is married to a White Mormon and they have 3 children... They most definitely will be raised as Whites and will never be a part of her heritage... Just listen to her answer to the CNN Correspondant about Obama - she skipped the question entirley... This woman does not consider herself Black or Haitian American...

On July 11, a terrorist bombing at a crowded bar in Kampala, Uganda, killed more than 60 people — including Nate Henn, an American Invisible Children worker who was visiting friends and family.

Since then, he has tirelessly exhorted the American Church to recognize and respond to God's heart for children and families in need.

The Chef & Child inititative provides education and assistance to American families to promote the understanding of proper nutrition.

There are currently more than 15 million American children living below the poverty line, and almost 7 million of them are living in deep poverty, with family incomes of less than $ 12,000 a year for a family of four.

A new study of 2,500 white, Mexican American and black children from low - income families suggests that early spankings make for aggressive toddlers.

Parents should ask their child's doctor for the manual Preparticipation Physical Evaluation developed jointly by the American Academy of Family Physicians, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Medical Society for Sports Medicine, and the American Osteopathic Academy of Sports Medicine, which includes specific questions to ask in taking a medical history and instructions on how to conduct a sports - related musculoskeletal examination (see below).

She is a member of the Society for Research in Child Development, the National Council on Family Relations, and the American Psychological Association.

They are currently looking for an American who has, «a tough, but loving, philosophy to caring for children» and the «ability to determine the roots of highly emotional relationship problems within families in desperate need for help.»

With gas prices hovering around 4 dollars a gallon, and the cost of everything, from groceries to restaurants, having a child, or two or three, playing on sports travel team is becoming a luxury many American families can no longer afford.

Local Resources for Parents The Unicorn Bereavement Center (part of Duke Hospice Bereavement): dhch.duhs.duke.edu/bereavement-services The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention and the Suicide Prevention Resource Center's «After a Suicide: A Toolkit for Schools»: sprc.org/sites/sprc.org/files/library/afterasuicidetoolkitforschools.pdf The Duke Child and Family Study Center: dukemedicine.org/locations/duke-child-and-family-study - center

Others often struggle with having to care for an aging estranged parent and perhaps aging stepparents with whom they may or may not have been close, says Elizabeth Marquardt, director of the Center for Marriage and Families at the Institute for American Values and author of Between Two Worlds: The Inner Lives of Children of Divorce.

For American parents, teenage sex is something to be feared and forbidden: most would never consider allowing their children to have sex at home, and sex is a frequent source of family conflict.

It is up to parents to decide for their family whether to allow their child to start, or continue, playing football, not some present or former player, journalist or scientist who takes the position that football is either too dangerous to be played by anyone or safe enough to be played by all (October 25, 2015 update: this is exactly the position adopted by the American Academy of Pediatrics in its 2015 Policy Statement on Tackling in Youth Football in which it leaves parents - presumably in consultation with their child's pediatrician - to «decide whether the potential health risks of sustaining... injuries [in tackle football] are outweighed by the recreational benefits associated with proper tackling»); and