Sentences with phrase «about placing your child»

You do not make the final decision about placing your child for adoption until after the birth.

Over time though, I found our limited communication gave only selective glimpses into the lives and thoughts of our son's birthparents, particularly our birthmother whom I was primarily in contact with, and after a couple of years I began to feel uncomfortable because I realized it was unclear to me what our birthmother thought about placing her child with us for an adoption.

Whether you are thinking about placing your child for adoption or hoping to grow your family, it's important to take some time to envision your adoption process.

A Resource for Families Considering Residential Treatment Programs for Their Children (PDF - 105 KB) National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI)(2008) Provides lists of suggestions and information from various sources that professionals can share with parents to help them make an informed decision about placing their child in residential treatment.

Dr. Green is a consultant with Better Options Initiative, a non-profit organization, whose aim is to change public perception about placing children in the middle of parent conflict.

Not exact matches

«The language signals that this is a fun place to work that cares about children,» she says.

Maybe for that 15 - minute meal your child will not think about Instagram or Snapchat, but she will likely resent you for having to use the locker in the first place.

A proactive estate strategy will place you — not state law or courts — in control of decisions about the care of your children, your assets and your health care.

«If the Catholic hierarchy welcome him [Peter Ball] I hope they put in place every possible safeguard so that people know something about his background and he can never, ever pose a threat to children or young people again.»

«He has indicated over the past two years that he was eager to cooperate in whatever way he could, and he was looking forward to talking about the good work and progress that took place to ensure the protection of children and pastoral outreach to victims.»

«All our talk about peace and the weapons of the spirit is meaningless unless we try in every way to embrace voluntary poverty and not work in any position, any job that contributes to war... We must give up our place in this world, sacrifice children, family... And we will be considered fools for Christ.»

So we learned about generations of indigenous children who had been removed from their homes, their parents, their communities, and their families to be placed in government - sponsored religious schools beginning officially in 1880 so the «Indian» could be educated out of them.

The child Amos internalized this ambivalence about his family's place in Israel.

Because, my God, though I lack the soul - zeal and the sublime integrity of your saints, I yet have received from you an overwhelming sympathy for all that stirs within the dark mass of matter; because I know myself to be irremediably less a child of heaven than a son of earth; therefore I will this morning climb up in spirit to the high places, bearing with me the hopes and the miseries of my mother; and there — empowered by that priesthood which you alone (as I firmly believe) have bestowed on me — upon all that in the world of human flesh is now about to be born or to die beneath the rising sun I will call down the Fire.

Based on my early church experiences, letting my son «make up» his own mind about religion would be misguided, because that conception of freedom fails to recognize how children learn to reason in the first place.

13:1 - 7), and what about the restrictions we place on our children's involvement with others who practice morally deviant behavior (1 Cor.

Consider the family which must decide about the placing of children in a State school.

Oh, the Calvinists could make perfect sense of it all with a wave of a hand and a swift, confident explanation about how Zarmina had been born in sin and likely predestined to spend eternity in hell to the glory of an angry God (they called her a «vessel of destruction»); about how I should just be thankful to be spared the same fate since it's what I deserve anyway; about how the Asian tsunami was just another one of God's temper tantrums sent to remind us all of His rage at our sin; about how I need not worry because «there is not one maverick molecule in the universe» so every hurricane, every earthquake, every war, every execution, every transaction in the slave trade, every rape of a child is part of God's sovereign plan, even God's idea; about how my objections to this paradigm represented unrepentant pride and a capitulation to humanism that placed too much inherent value on my fellow human beings; about how my intuitive sense of love and morality and right and wrong is so corrupted by my sin nature I can not trust it.

But I found myself now in a place were I found the Jesus that I always preached to other people for about 15 years including 8 1/2 years in as a missionary in a Third World Country with my wife and three children (two of them born overseas), the Jesus that speaks to you, the Jesus that wants to make you happy and give you hope, the Jesus that saved me and I knew but not to this level of intimacy.

But by the time «catechetics,» as the study of instruction, became a theological discipline in the seventeenth or eighteenth century, a curious reversal had taken place, and most of the talk was about dealing with children.

The particular place of which I speak is roiled by shame and anger about the abuse of children by priests, long unchecked and now belatedly acknowledged.

If you think about it, it was an angle that placed the child.

Examples are 9/11 hijackings, The holding back of stem cell research that could save countless human lives, Aids being spread due to religious opposition to the use of condoms, Christians legally fighting this year to teach over 1 million young girls in America that they must always be obedient to men, the eroding of child protection laws in America by Christians, for so called faith based healing alternatives that place children's health and safety at risk, burning of witches, the crusades, The Nazi belief that the Aryans were god's chosen to rule the world, etc... But who cares about evidence in the real world when we have our imaginations and delusions about gods with no evidence of them existing.

Support groups, such as those led by the Center for Grieving Children, provide a safe place where children and adults can talk about their loss witChildren, provide a safe place where children and adults can talk about their loss witchildren and adults can talk about their loss with peers.

If we are engaged in chastity education rather than giving information about sex, it is easy to show that such education, is part of the character building for children that finds its natural place in the home.

As an illustration of the sort of service he is talking about, he places a child in the midst of the circle of disciples — thus indicating that children, including abandoned children, are to be brought into the Christian community.

Ironically, this newsworthy curriculum evidently teaches a good deal less about etiquette than we learned back at Margaret M. Amidon Elementary School in the «60s, but that is still a good deal more than children learn in most places.

A husband and a wife have their shared concern for their children, if they have any; they are concerned also about the house in which they live and about whatever initial interests may have drawn them together in the first place.

And they got upset and were trying to figure things out and finally became so frustrated that the Law was so hard to follow and God kept sending them into captivity and there was so much death and eventually the prophets started prophesying about a day that would come where the hearts of the fathers would return to their children and a sacrifice that would be the final sacrifice so that they could all stop killing so many animals (which God also admitted He never wanted in the first place because that was not the point), and also that God would eventually wipe out the old system and write his law on their hearts and minds so that they could finally follow him without making so many mistakes and messing up everything.

If parents can give a child the gift of a complicated and subtle language, they can be trusted to pass on the relatively little biological information that children need to know about sex, and in a manner that, most likely of all methods, will place it in the context of the language of love and life.

This incident recalls the earlier one of the child «in the midst of them» (Mk 9:36: Mt 18:2 - 4; Lk 9:47); in fact, the saying about receiving the kingdom of God like a child, which Matthew has in that place, appears here in Mark and Luke.

Anyone who sends his or her children to a place where people believe that (i) the entire world was created in 7 days about 6,000 years ago, (ii) a guy lived in a whale, (ii) another guy got two of every animal on the planet on a boat, (iii) guy rose up from the dead and floated up into the clouds... should be banned from reproducing.

while never asking the hard questions about why these children were orphans in the first place.

As Christopher Lasch says, «Children need to learn about faraway times and places so they can make sense of their own surroundings.»

This Lobby had brought about the closure of Faith - based Adoption agencies, aggravating the crisis in placing children for adoption, and was poised to put on the Statute Book laws which would have imposed its own opinions on Faith - based schools and anyone else who disagreed.

In short, it means caring about and for the future, by investing something of yourself in nurturing those persons, causes, and values which will live after you and will help in some small way to make the planet a better place for the children of the human family.

«We need to prepare our children for the day when we're not there and we do that gradually giving them more and more responsibility as they get older and we do it by talking about them and by spending time with them - putting those boundaries in place.»

Speaking during News Hour he said: «Last year we placed about 17 per cent of our children which were from different ethnic backgrounds.

Once married, she was now free to continue her career or give it up, remain married or change her mind about her choice of husband, have a child or not, and at a time and place of her choosing.

He was speaking philosophically about the plight of man; that while birds have nests and other animals have their natural habitats, there is no natural place for the children of man to rest their heads.

Strategically placed near the checkout line at the grocery store, where, after a frustrating hour of decision - making, calorie counting, list checking, and child - bribing, women would otherwise be forced to stop, wait, and ask themselves a few questions about the meaning of their existence, the magazine aisle dazzles us with photoshopped images of super-skinny models, next to impeccably arranged place settings, next to actresses praised for losing their baby weight in five minutes, next to Martha Stewart holding a perfectly frosted chocolate cake.

ALICE: You sound like you hated every minute of the whole thing — like there haven't been any good things about it, like we never should have had children in the first place.

I wondered when we would know better how to help children more widely in schools and homes to understand their feelings, and when we would be able to help parents understand theirs, so that the boys and girls now growing up might know not only about tanks and bullets but about the most powerful of all weapons for both good and evil — the human feelings that propel us, if we do not understand them, into hating in place of loving, into killing instead of creation.

The Times, which is protecting the girl's identity the reason why she was placed in care, reported that her mother is concerned about her child living in a culture which she knows nothing about, as well as being exposed to religion that she doesn't follow.

I must refrain from saying more about it until we arrive again at a proper understanding of what the Mass is and what it is for... I am not speaking of the old foundations which were established for the children of the nobility... I am speaking of the new foundations...» There were too many, and as things were at these smaller places their incumbents all got reduced to «anthem singers, organ wheezers and reciters of decadent, indifferent Masses».

If multiple adults are asking embarrassing questions while the child is still on the grounds of the church or the school, the child may begin to associate negative feelings with the place where they are being asked about the abuse.

What if one denomination encouraged all of their pastors to preach at least one sermon in April, about the value God places on children — it doesn't necessarily have to focus on sexual abuse, but on the value of children and the importance of Christians to expend ourselves in protecting and honoring these little ones?

I confess that I have become somewhat blasé about the range of exciting — I think revolutionary is probably more accurate — technologies that we are rolling out today: our work in genomics and its translation into varieties that are reaching poor farmers today; our innovative integration of long — term and multilocation trials with crop models and modern IT and communications technology to reach farmers in ways we never even imagined five years ago; our vision to create a C4 rice and see to it that Golden Rice reaches poor and hungry children; maintaining productivity gains in the face of dynamic pests and pathogens; understanding the nature of the rice grain and what makes for good quality; our many efforts to change the way rice is grown to meet the challenges of changing rural economies, changing societies, and a changing climate; and, our extraordinary array of partnerships that has placed us at the forefront of the CGIAR change process through the Global Rice Science Partnership.

Apart of been caught smoking and drawing from Shisha pipe, is it ethical and gentlemanly of him to drop Lauren Neal, the mother of his 2 children and start running about with Andriani Michael all over the place?

Now there is a question which opens a massive debate about how OUR club is run but the answer has got to be yes, I miss Highbury and to say I loved the clock end as a child through to leaving there for the grove as an adult is an understament, although the stadium has been a financial burden obviously it is still a wonderful place to watch football in, but football and especially Arsenal has changed so much in the last thirty years, I really am concerned about how much our supporters are charged either season tickets or match day sales including food / drink, we have removed a vast core of our traditional support and young because of these prices.