Sentences with phrase «about social pressures»

Marie Roker Jones, BA, Fordham University, Certified Breakthrough Parenting ® Instructor and Intrinsic Coach ® in Health and Wellness is the founder of Raising Great Men ™ — real talk about raising boys to become men of character — and What Kind of Man Do You Want to Be ™ — an initiative for boys and young men to join in the dialogue about the social pressures of masculinity and examine definitions of «real manhood».

Is this a discussion worth having, or is the column just an overly ambitious use of «rights» language to make a statement about social pressures?

And what about social pressure?

I am a 35 year old woman, and I have lots of conflicts about wanting be independent, being aware that time is running sort, while simultaneously being incredibly resentful about the social pressure exerted on me to get married and settle down.

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In the paper, Wu, who is about to begin doctoral studies at Harvard, said the anonymous aspect of posts «eliminates any social pressure participants may feel to edit their speech.»

There's a lot of pressure to look like you have an interesting life on social media, but not all millennials are honest with themselves about the cost.

«If you ask women what they like about a group fitness class, they'll tell you 15 things about the instructor, the environment, the social pressure, but they won't tell you about the bike,» Foley says.

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If the data were acquired by asking students about their own college, then especially at schools with strong denominational ties there are almost certainly social pressure on individual students to maintain the appearance of piety.

While only about a third of American evangelical leaders said they currently experience persecution for their faith, more than twice as many believe they will experience persecution in the form of social, financial, and political pressure in the years ahead, according to an NAE survey conducted in October.

It is also true that much social change in Ireland has come about as a result of strong pressure from E.U. institutions, for example, the decriminalization of «homosexual acts» in 1993 (homosexuality as such was never illegal in Ireland, but «homosexual acts» were).

Conversations are frank, and real problems are tackled: poor RE in Catholic schools, grave worries about plans for sex education there, pressures on the young from social media, a longing for strong leadership on some of these issues from Bishops.

During the college years a student's religion must fight its way against the high - pressured tempo of the modern campus, the welter of competing social claims, the campus gods of football or fraternity or romance that leave little time or energy to think about religion and the Church.

Yet many of them do not wish to make assisted suicide too widely available, and still others worry about financial and social pressures that can subtly coerce the vulnerable into making a «choice» to die.

If the truth about marriage can be displaced by social and political pressure operating through the law, other truths can be set aside as well.

it's on them as individuals to handle the pressures and be wary about navigating the social - sphere.

Borussia Dortmund's Jadon Sancho, one of the Bundesliga's best young talents, opens up about making sacrifices, his football idols and the pressure of social media.

If a woman couldn't breastfeed because of lack of support or lack of maternity leave or social pressure and used formula and made her peace with it and moved on, then hears about a campaign to provide others with what she did not have, I think there is some pain (that she didn't have it) and anger (why should they get it when I didn't) that is a legitimate reaction that needs to be addressed before moving on.

Be sure your preteens understand that they can come to you with questions about bullying, peer pressure and other social problems that might be bothering them.

Aside from cyberbullying, oversharing and sexting issues, social media also can put negative pressure on friendships, especially when one friend is very active about posting pictures, status updates and opinions that hurt others.

Obama also quickly swatted away criticism that her campaign is one driven by vanity, social pressures or misperceptions about weight, beauty and fitness.

To educate of other members of the adoption group and the general public about the injustices done to the First Mother as per coercion, social pressures and worse.

It's all about economic egalitarianism, lowering barriers to entry, etc. «and the pressures of accommodating to Conservative priorities in economic and social policy.»

Instead, the day to day pressure of balancing this year's budget preoccupy the minds of social care managers, regularly causing inappropriate decisions about peoples care to be made.

By showing that we are alive to people's concerns, this allows Labour to start having those crucial conversations with the public about what they are really upset about which are things that Labour cares about — pressures on local health and social care services; a lack of local investment and housing; not sharing the wealth and opportunity that London has; systemic inequality; culture; integration.

He had strong views about economics, the free market and low taxation, and it will come as a surprise to many of his former colleagues that he was the founder member of PEST — Pressure for Economic and Social Toryism — which later became associated with a left, if not wet, form of Conservatism.

Teaching teens about mental health is welcome amid exam and social pressures, but the wider rise of childhood disorders demands much more, says Sarah Brennan

«The epidemic says as much about social attitudes and economic pressures as about anxious feelings»

From this perspective, today's epidemic says as much about social attitudes and economic pressures as it does about actual anxious feelings.

Even so, Gould harboured grave doubts about the ability of science to remain free from social pressures and bias.

Participants were asked questions about how dissatisfied to satisfied they were with aspects of their body, whether they engage in attempts to modify their appearance, and whether they felt social pressures related to their appearance.

Gay men were more likely than heterosexual men to report feeling judged based on their appearance (77 percent vs. 61 percent), to routinely think about how they look (58 percent vs. 39 percent), to compare their appearance to others at social events (68 percent vs. 51 percent), and to feel pressure from the media to be attractive (58 percent vs. 29 percent).

«From very early on, the selection pressure was about social interactions in a group,» Nowak says.

«The greater pressure to conform to gender roles that North African French boys feel may be a response to contrasting messages about social status they are exposed to - one from their ethnic and cultural groups that says masculinity has greater power and prestige, the other from the broader social context that says their ethnic and cultural groups have lower status and are discriminated against.»

Learning about cells» social interactions may give researchers new ways to peer pressure cells into good behavior.

The new study raises questions about whether social pressures that disempower women actually contribute to hormonal differences between the sexes.

Overall, it warns us, paleontologists, about the use of sagittal crests to characterize and classify species and look at it as a more plastic feature that may reflect some social pressure and need of competition for a successful mating.»

Gigi sat down with four admirable women, Ruby Rose, Zoe Kravitz, Lena Dunham, and Aly Raisman, to talk about how they deal with the pressures of perfection in the context of a modern, social - media - driven world.

I've been thinking a lot about how I want to balance school, blogging, career aspirations, travel, and social engagements in 2017, and which pressures I want to be forces in my life and which stressers I want to let go.

Whilst Baby Boomers waved Give Peace A Chance placards and Generation Xers philosophized about world hunger whilst watching The Breakfast Club, Millennials found themselves reared on rapid - fire Internet connections, waving handhelds, pressured to succeed academically and at work, wrapped up in a world of virtual relationships via social networking, and with little time for a real social life.

SinglesEvents.com ™ is a free - service that specializes in spreading the word about all different types of social events for like - minded singles who want to get out and experience something new - typically in a low - pressure atmosphere.

Research about China is suggesting that the rise of online dating is also in response to social pressure to find a mate, especially on the part of boys who...

The Dating Sim is a type of game designed to set up goals, usually in the forms of schedules and stats corresponding to social skills, which must be... Nekojishi is a visual novel about feline beast - men, Taiwanese folklore, and the pressures and consequences that come with navigating the world of gods and

Instead of trying to appeal to someone you think is your ideal match, and feeling pressured to fall in love, a social media site is just about sharing your interests and connecting with like - minded people.

I think about The Shape of Things where LaBute shows us how people transform themselves — oftentimes essentially — to please a significant other or the play Fat Pig in which social pressures convince a man to deny himself of love.

All That Heaven Allows — Douglas Sirk melodrama about a wealthy widow (Jane Wyman) who falls in love with the Thoreuvian tree farmer Rock Hudson, and has to choose between social pressure and the beatnik.

To help lessen the pressure and intimidation of college talk, and to help familiarize and excite their students about college, Pride leaders talk about the social aspect of college, including various activities and clubs they can join.

Social networking can also lead to pressures from bullying to worries about friendship groups.

On top of all that, the exigencies of an always - on culture and pressure to be liked / followed on social media combine to create a lot of potential stress and pitfalls that simply weren't there for previous generations — this seems to be borne out in recent scary statistics about mental ill - health among young people in the UK.

The MHBA staff expressed concern about being able to keep their students focused on college when the children are dealing with daily social pressures at school or are faced with trauma in their lives.